October 2010


Starbucks in Wanstead is full to bursting with prams, wags a v noisy children….leave me and my latte in peaceless than a minute ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®

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On this night in 1940, at 12.15am, four people were trapped in a house on Hermon Hill after high explosives were dropped by German planes. The gas main was also broken. A few minutes earlier, at 12.10am, high explosives burst a water main at Snaresbrook Station. Then at 12.21am, a house on Monmouth Drive was demolished by explosives, and at 12.23, the gas main at Southview Drive was broken by more bombs.

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So long, Applebees…

October 28, 2010 in Wanstead News

…and thanks for all the fish. The Wanstead branch of the restaurant changed hands in February – the one in the City remains – and has revealed what it is to be called. (Thanks to @nick_affleck for the photo.) Welcome and good luck – though isn’t the thought of green fish a bit Cat in the Hat?



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Wansteadium Blitz project

Wansteadium Blitz project, 28 October 1940; Sylvan Road, Hollybush Hill, Hermon Hill

28 October 2010

On this night in 1940, at 12.43am, German planes dropped high explosives on Sylvan Road, bursting a water main. At 12.20, high explosives were dropped on Hollybush Hill, and at 10.08am an unexploded bomb in large crater which was 4ft deep was dealt with by the bomb disposal squad.

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Other Wanstead stuff

Last chance for garden waste

25 October 2010

An occasional public service announcement: if you have garden waste, this week (w/c 24 Oct) is your last chance this year to have it collected as part of the routine door-to-door collections.  More details on Redbridge-i.

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Wanstead News

Changes on Wanstead High Street

23 October 2010

Wanstead’s  Smarter High Street campaign  - which among other things assesses the visual impact of shopfronts – has got its work cut out this weekend. Firstly, Wanstead Pharmacy has put behind it its Reginald Perrin days, when a falling letter from its sign spells a different name each day. It’s got a smart new sign [...]

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Wanstead News

Redbridge ‘has £1.5m in tobacco shares’

21 October 2010

Tonight’s Evening Standard is reporting that, despite campaigning against smoking, Redbridge has £1.5m invested in shares in tobacco firms. The paper says the council “tried to obstruct publication of its holdings in such companies”, and says that £1m of the council pension fund is invested in RJ Reynolds, manufacturer of Camel, and a further £500,000 [...]

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