Jan 20, 2012 1
The Sun is reporting today that police are investigating whether the food served to judges at Snaresbrook Crown Court could have been spiked with urine. It reports:
It is feared someone with a grudge against the justice system has launched a grubby revenge campaign. Traces of urine are believed to have been found in soups, salads and sandwiches…
Food safety officers and police are investigating, the paper says.
Jan 19, 2012 0
Last year Wansteadium featured some stunning photos of Wanstead taken by photographer Gary Lashmar (aka Marshal Gray). He and his partner Claudia Carter are planning to take a Wanstead-related photo every day for a year , and Wansteadium will be featuring a regular selection. Here is the first.
Gary says: “I took two images of this lady. One was candid in which she was straight faced. But as soon as she saw me she gave me the biggest smile ever. It totally melted my heart. Not all folk are as willing to be photographed. I’ll treasure this picture forever.”
Gary’s blog is at Marshal Gray Photography.
Jan 16, 2012 0
Wansteadium, for one, did not really expect the police to be tweeting about this sort of thing. But it will answer some people’s questions.
Jan 14, 2012 0
A bumper crop of news from Wanstead this week.
• Popular Wanstead cricketer Mervyn Westfield has become the first British player to be convicted of spot-fixing, after admitting being bribed to bowl badly deliberately when playing for Essex against Durham in a game in 2009. He will be sentenced next month; reports say he is likely to be banned from playing or coaching cricket at any level. (BBC report)
• Thousands of pounds of cosmetics were stolen from Boots in Wanstead High Street on Tuesday night. More details here.
• New plans for the redevelopment of Wanstead’s old cinema site, kitschy kalled the Kinema, have been submitted. You can see what they would look like here (pdf).
• Redbridge Council is inviting residents once again to make suggestions about how it could make budget savings. Incidentally, the council is proposing a zero rise in council tax for the third year running.
• And final word goes to the Wanstead Guardian story about . . . well, we’ll let them tell you.
A SWAN left to bring up his son alone after his partner was savaged to death by an out-of control dog, found happiness with a new female and her four cygnets.
Send event details to events@wansteadium.com
Astronomy in Wanstead
Starts: 12:00 am
All dayLocation: The Temple - Wanstead Park
Description: An exhibition celebrating the remarkable history Wanstead played in the development of seventeenth century astronomy. Ring 020 8508 0028 for details
Wanstead walks
Starts: 10:30 am
Location: Outside Wanstead Place surgery
Description: Residents are invited to join hour-long walks exploring Wanstead. Walks generally last an hour. Organised by Redbridge Sport and Physical Activity Team. Call 020 8708 0952 for details.
Valentine's Vintage Fair
Starts: 11:00 am
Location: Churchill Room, Wanstead Library
Description: You'll love the range of goods for sale, from pretty to precious. Vintage-style or shabby chic from mainly artists and craft makers including craft supplies, including art and craft materials, books plus vintage goods, buttons and jewellery. Something for everyone.
Refreshments available
FREE ENTRY
Church services in Wanstead
Starts: 8:00 am
Location: Churches in Wanstead
Description: * Christ Church CofE, Wanstead Place, E11 2SW: 8am, 9.30am, 6.30pm
* St Mary's Wanstead, E11 2LW: 11am
* Our Lady of Lourdes RC, 51 Cambridge Park E11 2PR: 9.30am, 11.30am, 6.30pm
* Wanstead Methodist Church, Hermon HIll, E11 2AR: 10.15am, 6.30pm
* Wanstead Baptist Church, E11 2AS: 10.30am
* Wanstead URC - currently meeting at Wanstead Methodist Church (at 11.15am)
* Quaker Meeting House, Bush Road, E11 3AU: 11am-noon
*Grace Church Wanstead; Main service 11.15am at Wanstead House
Upbeat - Wanstead community choir
Starts: 7:45 pm
Location: Wanstead High School
Description: Open to anyone over 16
Quiz Night at the Cuckfield
Starts: 8:00 pm
Location: The Cuckfield, 31 High Street, Wanstead E11 2AA
Wanstead Comedy Night
Starts: 7:30 pm
Location: Bar Room Bar, Wanstead High St
Description: With Markus Birdman, Kate Lucas and others. Entry £5 on the door. To book a table ring 07950 759587
Astronomy in Wanstead
Starts: 12:00 am
All dayLocation: The Temple - Wanstead Park
Description: An exhibition celebrating the remarkable history Wanstead played in the development of seventeenth century astronomy. Ring 020 8508 0028 for details
Past & Present Antiques & Crafts Fair
Starts: 10:00 am
Location: Christchurch Hall, Wanstead Place
Description: Collectibles, antiques, vintage jewellery, buttons, clothes and other items, perfumes and handbags, household items, curios, homemade preserves, greeting cards and lots more.
In 2 halls, lots of stalls, great friendly atmosphere.
Come and find a unique item or gift.
A good place to pop in for a coffee, have a drink or lunch with a friend and find a great bargain too!
Hot and cold refreshments available (homemade).
Wanstead walks
Starts: 10:30 am
Location: Outside Wanstead Place surgery
Description: Residents are invited to join hour-long walks exploring Wanstead. Walks generally last an hour. Organised by Redbridge Sport and Physical Activity Team. Call 020 8708 0952 for details.
Jan 12, 2012 3
Readers of Wansteadium, many of whom experience Snaresbrook station as a daily delight, are invited to help poor old Ollie Durham out of his misery. Reply by comment, by tweet (with #wansteadium) or by email – wansteadium@gmail.com. It’s the kind thing to do, friends.
Wansteadium reader Sally Humphreys writes: Snaresbrook Is a delightful old fashioned station with a nice garden (and loos). I live just off Hermon Hill opposite the old hospital and if Snaresbrook did not exist I would have a long walk every day to catch my tube to work – either to South Woodford or Wanstead.
Jan 11, 2012 0
Jan 10, 2012 0
It’s our annual New Year public service announcement.
Redbridge Council will collect your Christmas tree from outside your house, and take it away for composting. And the best bit about it is that you can request the collection online by entering your details at this page: Request Green Waste Collection. Once booked, trees should be collected within 10 days, though you will have to leave the tree at the edge of your property.
That won’t please the excessively houseproud, but is better than getting old fir tree resin smeared on your jeans.
Jan 7, 2012 0
• There are plans for more phone masts in Redbridge, including one near Snaresbrook primary school. While some people still have concerns about health, but the demand for mobile phone coverage continues to grow. A BBC survey last year of areas without reliable 3G coverage found a sizeable gap around Hermon Hill (pictured) which a new mast might address.
• Parents wanting their children to enter primary schools in Wanstead have until next week to submit their application (via www.redbridge.gov.uk/eAdmissions). As these figures below from the 2011 entry show, Wanstead schools are much in demand. The main criteria for application to non-faith schools are whether children have siblings already at the school, and how close they live to the school. Though each of Wanstead’s two faith schools technically will admit children not of their faiths, the figures show that for Our Lady’s, out of 60 children, 36 were baptised Catholics and 26 who were baptised Catholics with siblings in the school. For Wanstead Church school, out of 30 children enrolled, 27 came from families ‘at the heart of the Anglican church’, two from families ‘committed to the Anglican church’ and one who had a sibling in the school.
• The Wanstead and Woodford University of the Third Age, for people who are retired, semi-retired or no longer working full-time is holding its inaugural meeting on Tuesday.
• A beagle which was found in Wanstead earlier this week (and about which there was much tweeting) has been reunited with its owners.
Anyone can add an event to the Wansteadium Events calendar by sending details to events@wansteadium.com. Wansteadium now has more than 1,200 regular followers in Wanstead so it's a great way to let people know what's going on.
Astronomy in Wanstead
Starts: 12:00 am
All dayLocation: The Temple - Wanstead Park
Description: An exhibition celebrating the remarkable history Wanstead played in the development of seventeenth century astronomy. Ring 020 8508 0028 for details
Wanstead walks
Starts: 10:30 am
Location: Outside Wanstead Place surgery
Description: Residents are invited to join hour-long walks exploring Wanstead. Walks generally last an hour. Organised by Redbridge Sport and Physical Activity Team. Call 020 8708 0952 for details.
Valentine's Vintage Fair
Starts: 11:00 am
Location: Churchill Room, Wanstead Library
Description: You'll love the range of goods for sale, from pretty to precious. Vintage-style or shabby chic from mainly artists and craft makers including craft supplies, including art and craft materials, books plus vintage goods, buttons and jewellery. Something for everyone.
Refreshments available
FREE ENTRY
Church services in Wanstead
Starts: 8:00 am
Location: Churches in Wanstead
Description: * Christ Church CofE, Wanstead Place, E11 2SW: 8am, 9.30am, 6.30pm
* St Mary's Wanstead, E11 2LW: 11am
* Our Lady of Lourdes RC, 51 Cambridge Park E11 2PR: 9.30am, 11.30am, 6.30pm
* Wanstead Methodist Church, Hermon HIll, E11 2AR: 10.15am, 6.30pm
* Wanstead Baptist Church, E11 2AS: 10.30am
* Wanstead URC - currently meeting at Wanstead Methodist Church (at 11.15am)
* Quaker Meeting House, Bush Road, E11 3AU: 11am-noon
*Grace Church Wanstead; Main service 11.15am at Wanstead House
Upbeat - Wanstead community choir
Starts: 7:45 pm
Location: Wanstead High School
Description: Open to anyone over 16
Quiz Night at the Cuckfield
Starts: 8:00 pm
Location: The Cuckfield, 31 High Street, Wanstead E11 2AA
Wanstead Comedy Night
Starts: 7:30 pm
Location: Bar Room Bar, Wanstead High St
Description: With Markus Birdman, Kate Lucas and others. Entry £5 on the door. To book a table ring 07950 759587
Astronomy in Wanstead
Starts: 12:00 am
All dayLocation: The Temple - Wanstead Park
Description: An exhibition celebrating the remarkable history Wanstead played in the development of seventeenth century astronomy. Ring 020 8508 0028 for details
Past & Present Antiques & Crafts Fair
Starts: 10:00 am
Location: Christchurch Hall, Wanstead Place
Description: Collectibles, antiques, vintage jewellery, buttons, clothes and other items, perfumes and handbags, household items, curios, homemade preserves, greeting cards and lots more.
In 2 halls, lots of stalls, great friendly atmosphere.
Come and find a unique item or gift.
A good place to pop in for a coffee, have a drink or lunch with a friend and find a great bargain too!
Hot and cold refreshments available (homemade).
Wanstead walks
Starts: 10:30 am
Location: Outside Wanstead Place surgery
Description: Residents are invited to join hour-long walks exploring Wanstead. Walks generally last an hour. Organised by Redbridge Sport and Physical Activity Team. Call 020 8708 0952 for details.
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Jan 2, 2012 0
Now 2011 is out of the way, you might be interested in how many people read Wansteadium last year, and what they were reading.
Our readership figures (recorded by Google Analytics) were:
visits in total, from
different people (“unique visitors”).
There were an almighty
pageviews in the year.
Far and away the biggest story of the year for us was the summer rioting, with the tension in Wanstead High Street and trouble in South Woodford leading thousands of readers to come over two days. The top 10 most read pages (excluding index pages) was:
1. South Woodford hit – Wanstead nervous (July)
2. Wanstead driving test routes mapped (May 2010)
3. Review: The Larder in Bethnal Green. Yes. Bethnal Green! (April)
4. Hadley House, arrivederci (October 2010)
5. Reviews of Wanstead’s new steakhouse (September 2010)
6. Turkish delight reviews (October)
8. At last – a buyer for Andrews’ Builders Merchant (April Fool)
9. Nice Croissant gets dissed (May)
10. Wanstead’s Massage surprise (December 2010)
Thank you to everyone who’s read Wansteadium in the past year. It’s been great fun putting it together, especially welcoming new voices like George C Parker, Suki Orange and gardener Ron. There’ll be more property, food and gardening in the year to come, but if you are interested in joining their ranks (we’re particularly interested to hear from people with a passion for books, culture, cricket and parenting) then please do drop us a line at wansteadium@gmail.com.
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