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Wanstead Park Ponds Project Update
The Corporation made the following announcement in the March Forest Focus: The City of London Corporation are moving forward on engineering assessment work relating to the ponds and lake cascade in Wanstead Park. Three ponds, due to their size, are classed as large raised reservoirs by the Environment Agency. This means the City have statutory […]
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Big turn out for litter pick
The March litter pick held on Sunday 8th attracted 30 socially-distanced volunteers. Armed with the latest in litter-picking technology the thirty braved the east wind and scoured the park for the unsightly and the out-of-place. Their enthusiasm for our park also expressed itself in the purchase of several knitted ducks, four copies of The Angel […]
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Bluebell time is coming. Warm up with Donato’s video
Watch a YouTubevideo of a walk around the park on Good Friday 2020.
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Newsletter Autumn 2020
Download a pdf version of the Autumn 2020 Newsletter here.
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The Latest Newsletter
Here is a pdf version of the latest Friends of Wanstead Parklands newsletter:
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Park User: International Dawn Chorus Day
When lockdown began I started walking every day in the park, listening to the birds. That was when I tried to try and begin to learn to identify birdsong.
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Newsletter Summer2020
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Newsletter Autumn/Winter 2019/2020
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June update from the Friends of Wanstead Parklands
We have all been preoccupied in recent months by the coronavirus pandemic. However, there has been plenty going on both in Wanstead Park and the Friends of Wanstead Parklands. Here’s a brief update on some important developments – as well as a new initiative which we hope will be well supported.
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Visitors enjoy Easter sunshine and bluebells in Wanstead Park
Last weekend (20-22 April 2019) saw a bumper number of visitors to Wanstead Park. By happy coincidence three things came together: the late Easter holiday, the best weather of the year so far – and the peak of the park’s greatest annual spectacle, the bluebell season.