The council are looking at the possibility of installing a sports cage in Church Lane car park.
We ran a poll on the subject and the results were as follows:
Yes, five-a-side and basketball please. 29% (7 votes)
I passed these results on to the Leytonstone Ward councillors. Marie Pye responded:
Thank you very much, that is really interesting. On our website we’ve not had anybody raise concerns about young people hanging around in the car park and if residents are concerned about that we need to build safeguards into any scheme, for example making sure that the entrance is not near the car park entrance so that people don’t feel threatened (even when they aren’t).
Thanks to everyone who responded!
Yes, five-a-side and basketball please.29% (7 votes)
Having visited a few Christmas markets in Vienna last year, I was kind of (unrealistically) expecting the outside of St. John’s Church to look something like this today…
Christmas Market
But not a stall in sight, seems it was all happening inside the church. So, as I was a bit short for time (and wheeling a toddler along), I missed out. Anyone venture inside? How was it?
Andy McQueen from Leyton, has been named Waltham Forest Photographer of the Year after scooping the top gong in the Love your borough photographic competition.
Andy’s picture was selected from nearly 200 received, and will receive £300 in vouchers as his prize.
I knew the re-opening of the Blackwall Tunnel ahead of schedule after Sunday’s fire was too good to be true, some loon has decided to park himself on the roof of the 491 Gallery in Leytonstone, prompting the police to close Grove Green Road and the northbound carriageway of the A12!!!
Quite why they needed to close the A12 is unclear – presumably they reckon he could leap onto the road from the roof. Unless he’s a combination of spiderman and Carl Lewis, it seems a bit unlikely. Better safe than sorry I guess
The independent report into Waltham Forest Council’s failure to deliver government funded projects has been published…
The report points to failures in the Council’s ability to procure and manage contracts and finds “systemic and cultural issues” have led to repeated failures in the way in which the Council procured and managed community projects.
To be honest, I started losing the will to live on my first attempt to read it – couldn’t they publish a concise summary of the findings, maybe a couple of pages? Why the hell is it spread over numerous reports containing what just read like snippets from some hideous HR Management training manual.
Maybe its just me
If anyone has the will power to decipher the thing and work out what actually went on, please feel free to post a comment!
Quite a few searches that end up on this site are for “Bearman’s Leytonstone” and having searched for the same information myself in the past I know that there is suprisingly little out there on internet. So, what is, or was Bearman’s? you might ask. Well, try mentioning the name to some of our older residents and they’re liable to go all misty-eyed on you, recounting tales of Leytonstone’s “glory days”. Anyone who’s walked through Leytonstone tube station’s subway may have noticed an older poster on the wall near to the Church Lane entrance as well.
Bearman’s was in fact a department store, a proper “Are You Being Served” job, sadly no longer with us and seemingly almost wiped from memory given the aforementioned lack of information out there. Frank Bearman, the proprieter, a draper by profession also went on to buy a part-share in Allders Department Stores.
So, I’ve basically started this post to try to gather any stories, pictures, in fact anything at all that people may wish to share about Bearman’s in Leytonstone.
Now, to get the ball rolling, I’ve been nosing around the 1901 census information recently and thought I’d see if I could find Mr. Bearman. Luckily, there’s an entry in there for what appears to be the department store itself – possibly the Bearmans actually lived there at that time. The census information lists the address as “3 and 4, The Parade, Leytonstone”, which presumably was the name given at the time to that section of shops on the High Road. The occupants were…
Frank C Bearman (Draper/Shopkeeper)
Kate Bearman (his Wife)
Bernard Bearman (their son, aged 2 at the time)
Mary Waller (Cook)
Agnes Newby (Servant)
Susan Tapp (Servant)
Ellen Goodson (Servant)
Arthur Harrison (Drapers Assistant)
Bertrand Cox (Drapers Assistant)
Richard Hilton (Drapers Assistant)
Victor Brier (Drpaers Assistant)
Thomas Simpkins (Drapers Assistant)
Douglas Bunbury (Shopwalker)
So, looks like at this time the shop was still just a drapers, but it would evolve over the years into much more than that.
More to follow on this and as I mentioned, please add comments if you have any information to contribute.
We’re excited about winning and extremely grateful to our customers. We’re very happy to win such a local competition – it’s a seal of approval.
The Star of India, as well as being an excellent restaurant, is well known for supporting a variety of local good causes and of course for publishing free quarterly magazine “The Star”.
Garden City Restaurant on Leytonstone High Road has been close by the council due to a cockroach infestation and generally poor hygiene.
Senior Environmental Health Officer Pip Broad, who closed the premises, said:
It was one of the worst cockroach infestations I have ever seen. The cockroaches were crawling all over the work surfaces and it would have been impossible to miss them. I could hear them scurrying round my feet as I was inspecting the restaurant.
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