Tricia retired in March 2005 from the Epping Forest Department of the City of London, where she had held the post of Information Services Manager. She produced exhibitions, interpretative material about the Forest and planned and organised the annual Forest Festival. Tricia has a considerable knowledge and understanding of the landscape history and wildlife of Wanstead Park as well as the many challenges in planning its future management. Currently, Tricia is a part-time Tutor in ecology with the WEA and is involved with a number of other local organisations including the Essex Wildlife Trust and the Friends of Epping Forest and regularly gives talks about Wanstead Park.

Ralph Potter, Secretary

Ralph has been a lifelong visitor to Wanstead Park and has made it a personal mission to see that this unique Park receives the recognition it deserves. He has researched the documented history of the Park and is particularly passionate about the "Lost Roman Villa" and the lake system. He was recently instrumental in the production of a geophysical survey over a small area of the Park which has revealed evidence of Iron Age or Saxon roundhouses. A member of the Wanstead Historical Society and the West Essex Archaeological Group he is employed as a Senior Research Fellow at the University of East London. 

Paul Whitnall, Treasurer

Paul is currently Business Development Officer with the Eastern Region of the YMCA. He is a local resident who enjoys visiting the Park and has offered his business expertise in project management, fund raising and general administration in order to assist the project.

John Avis

Vice Chairman of West Essex Archaeological Group and Advisor to the Project

John is a retired engineer and has the responsibility for the safe storage and maintenance of the various pieces of electronic equipment used by the Members of WEAG. He is also involved in training members in the use of any new equipment purchased and in the interpretation of data obtained from such equipment.

Alan Cornish, Website Editor

Alan began his research on Wanstead park and its unique lake system in 1975. In 1978, with another local resident he published a major report: "The Lake System of Wanstead Park and the Mystery of Heronry Pond" – a careful analysis of the area, containing an unrivalled knowledge of the lakes and their water supply. He remains concerned about the continuing unsatisfactory state of the lake system and has been engaged in discussion with elected members, officers and consultants employed by the local authority (Redbridge) and the Corporation of London to plan possible solutions to water deficiency in the park. In 1982, to mark the centenary of the opening of the park to the public, he wrote "Wanstead Park – a Chronicle" for the Friends of Wanstead Parklands. This lists important dates in the Park’s great history – up-dated and republished in 2006 by Wanstead Parklands Community Project. Now a retired businessman, he wrote "Tudors – 28 Days to Wanstead: England’s Forgotten Coup d’Etat" to show the critical part played by the park in England’s history. He also recently wrote "The Second World War and Wanstead Park."

Mark Galloway

Mark has been Secretary of the Wanstead Historical Society for the past eleven years and a member for 18 years. He has a keen interest in uncovering more details of the history of the Park and surrounding area, giving talks about it and has published papers about his discoveries.

Peter Lawrence

Peter is a well known and respected local historian, who is currently Chairman of ‘The Woodford Historical Society’ and ‘The National Trust Woodford Green Centre’. He frequently lectures on Wanstead House and the history of the Park to a wide range of local groups, as well as lecturing nationwide on a range of topics that include both rural and classical architecture and London history. Having served for eight years as a local councillor on the London Borough of Redbridge, Peter is now Chairman of the Redbridge Arts Council and is keen to engage with the increasing ethnic population of the Borough in developing their understanding of the importance of Wanstead Park. Peter wrote Wanstead House - The Classical Period

Stuart Monro, Videographer

Stuart has been a resident of Wanstead for over 2 decades, and a member of Wanstead Historical Society for many years. Until a couple of years ago he made his living producing professional videos. Stuart is a member of the Institute of Videography, and an occasional judge for the Institute of Amateur Cinematographers. Stuart has made several videos about the local area, including "Kings of the Forest", a documentary recording how the deer played a key role in preventing the destruction of Epping Forest. He is currently compiling the DVD series "Wanstead Park Revealed".

Stephen Pewsey

Stephen is a management consultant at the British Museum as well as an enthusiastic member of several local historical societies. A prolific writer, he has written or contributed to a number of historical publications about the East End of London as well as books about towns on the environs of Epping Forest. Several years ago, he was responsible for mounting an exhibition of pictures in Wanstead E11 about Wanstead in the Barbados, West Indies, thus bringing together two very different places with the same name. His detailed historical knowledge of the local area and his many relevant contacts are a considerable asset to the Project.

Paul Donovan

Paul is a freelance journalist who has lived in Wanstead all of his life. He has written on a number of areas in the national, local and trade press and won an award from the community group London Citizens for his campaigning work on the need for a living wage in London. His current role is to highlight the activities of the Wanstead Parklands Community project in the media.

Stan Medland

Stan is a qualified Blue Badge Tourist Guide offering a range of tours in the Capital as well as in and around Wanstead. A Londoner, Stan is an author as well as an amateur actor and is passionate about Britain, its history and diverse cultures, a theme he projects during his tours. His background in business marketing is an asset to the Project.

Paul Ferris

Paul has been visiting Wanstead Park since before he moved to the area some 40 years ago. On his frequent walks in the Park and the surrounding areas since the 1980s, he has collected records of the birds, plants and other wildlife of the area. He has had reports published on the flora of Epping Forest, south of Waterworks corner in both the London Naturalist and the Essex Naturalist journals. He is now involved in photographing the wildlife of the Park and surrounding Parklands, and maintaining a website to illustrate the wealth of wildlife that lives here. He wrote both Wanstead Wildlife and The WREN Conservation & Wildlife Group links on the Nature and Wildlife section of the website of the Wanstead Parklands Community Project.

Richard Arnopp

Richard is a life-long resident of East London, and latterly of Wanstead. Some of his earliest memories are of Wanstead Park, and he is keenly interested in
its conservation. A keen amateur genealogist and historian, Richard would like to see Wanstead Park’s history become better known and appreciated. He is
currently playing a part in the archaeological investigation of the Plain and recently wrote The Search for Wanstead’s Roman Villa. Richard works as a civil servant.

Richard works as a civil servant.

Nicholas Bateson

Nicholas is Chairman of the Research and Excavation Committee of West Essex Archaeological Group. Born in London in 1935 he obtained a BA Oxon in 1957. He was then involved with research and teaching in social psychology between1959-1969 at the University of North Carolina, Oxford University and the LSE. He became an economic and social researcher between 1970 and 1995 for OPCS, London. In 1998 he obtained the Birkbeck Diploma in Prehistoric Archaeology (with Distinction) winning the V. Gordon Childe prize. He has been Chairman of the WEAG Research & Excavation Committee since 2000 and a Member of LAMAS Archaeology Committee since 2001. Since 2003 Nick has been the Administrator of the Copped Hall Trust Archaeological Project.

John Shepherd

John is Archaeological Director of West Essex Archaeological Group. He was born in London 1957 and obtained his BA London 1978. He has worked at the Institute of Archaeology as Research Assistant to Prof. W F Grimes 1981-84. He moved to the Museum of London where he was DUA Research Assistant from 1985 to 89. He was Curator of the Grimes London Archive 1990-1996, then Manager of London Archaeological Archive Research Centre 1997-2004. In 2005 he moved to the Institute of Archaeology, UCL, as FDTL5 Archive Archaeology Project Officer. He is a Fellow of Society of Antiquaries and a Member of the Institute for Field Archaeologists. John wrote The archaeology and history of Wanstead Parklands.