Comments for London E11 - Leytonstone, Snaresbrook and Wanstead

Comment on Hollow Swamp by adrian

adrian — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 16:52:48 +0000

A few benches and some bins, wouldn’t go a miss around Hollow ponds too.

Comment on Belgique by Jan Coe

Jan Coe — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:22:07 +0000

@nick Hi Nick These shops are franchaised i think it's who you employee helps a lot no excuse staff shortage get your finger out. I sooo agree.

Comment on Kirkdale’s by Anne Lionel

Anne Lionel — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:52:36 +0000

Keep the olive open one of the best restaurants in london. Im absolutely making a commitment to visit with friends and family as often as possible….This is unique and rare restaurant……the food is exquisite………….we have too many curry houses and im getting sick of it!!!!!!!!!

Comment on Bearmans by paul

paul — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:42:55 +0000

i am 38 now still rem bearmans it was agreat place to go; use to love x mas and the lego games each year , it has changed so much thay have a matalans there now not the same as it use to. leytonstone was a good place to live safe and clean i lived on richmond rd ell what happened? and where has all the real eastenders gone , i now live in ireland

Comment on Where Did Our Cinemas Go? by Geoff.J.

Geoff.J. — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:02:10 +0000

After leaving school in 1955 I worked as a trainee projectionist at the Rialto. It was part of my job to cycle,twice a night to the Century Cinema with the shared newsreel film. During my time there I projected many films that are now considered”classics”. I remember we showed”The King And I” for 3 weeks. At the end of that time I knew every song backwards also most of the dialogue. I later(in the 1960s) worked at the A.B.C. bowling alley as a pinspotter engineer. Unfortunatley those days are long gone. I particularly miss the bowling alley having madse many friends there. Lost track of all of them now. Ah well! life goes on.

Comment on The Royal Wanstead School by L Jordan

L Jordan — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:43:29 +0000

My father was at the school from 1920/1930 I womder if there are any records of his timethere.

Thanks

Lis

Comment on The Royal Wanstead School by Tim Fiddes

Tim Fiddes — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:12:41 +0000

I was at RWS from 1956 until 1963,when I left, aged 16.
Have just been reading through all these comments, and didn’t recognise any pupil names (some staff names though).
Hated every minute of my time there, but have lately had (some) pleasant thoughts about the place (must be getting old)!

Comment on The Royal Wanstead School by Friends of Royal Wanstead School

Friends of Royal Wanstead School — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 05:52:42 +0000

THE 2011 GRAND REUNION FOR ALL EX PUPILS AND STAFF OF THE ROYAL WANSTEAD SCHOOL WILL BE HELD ON SATURDAY 16th JULY 2011
IF YOU ARE NOT ON THE ‘OLD WANSTEADIANS’ MAILING LIST PLEASE VISIT THE GUEST BOOK AT royalwanstead.com AND SEND A MESSAGE BY CLICKING ON THE LITTLE ENVELOPE BY THE REUNION MESSAGE. THANKYOU

Comment on Wanstead House by Robert Cole

Robert Cole — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 18:10:00 +0000

Good morning, I have been reading with interest the history of Wanstead House and items regarding The Earl of Tilney, the reason for my email is that I have in my possession a drawing given to the Earl of Tilney by William Chambers, it maybe part of the design of Wanstead House, although it is only shows part of a domed entrance
I am not sure if it is the original drawing, but it is a framed black pen architects drawing insribed ‘ To the Earl of Tilney this design is humbly inscribed by his lordships most obedient servant William Chambers’.

I f you should be interested in obtaining this drawing then please contact me.

Best regards,

Bob Cole

Comment on The Royal Wanstead School by Dave Reddick (now Bradbury)

Dave Reddick (now Bradbury) — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 15:13:21 +0000

@Colin Gander
Hi there Colin, I was there that fateful night when we broke into the scince labs to nick that stuff but it was actually Potasium kept in a l;arge sweet jar in petroleum oil. when you mixed it with water it fizzed and exploded……… we went down the dell, pee’d and spat on it . then i kicked the jar in……..it fizzed like hell shot out to near the middle of the lake and exploded, for several weeks after dead fish kept coming up from the bottom. I remember P’OG (o’gorman ) came to my dorm demanding to know what happened when we told him we didnt know he said ” and the band played believe it if you will ” i thought we were about to get the ‘ bummer ‘ but didnt. the rest of the school were watching ‘ The Longest Day ‘ all the best Dave