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Fabled Forest

A Wanstead Fringe concert brings daughter and father composers together on a work inspired by Epping Forest, to be experienced by the audience walking through Wanstead Park. Marissa Landy explains

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Family Fringe

This year’s growth of the Wanstead Fringe to include a Family Fringe is a significant moment. Doing things in company rather than alone completely changes us, writes Camille Leadbeater

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We Are Here

The theme of this year’s Wanstead Fringe is ‘We Are Here’. At one level, it’s merely a statement of fact, but it’s also about taking inclusion seriously, writes festival director Giles Wilson

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Art on site

Local resident Bronagh Byrne explains how the Evergreen Field building site became a canvas for creativity, celebrating Wanstead’s history, people and community spirit through a colourful public art project. Photos by Geoff Wilkinson 

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Monumental task

Having raised more than £10,000 to restore the Wanstead War Memorial, the community-backed project is ready to begin, but council delays are holding up the work, says Revd James Gilder

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Track record

After months of delays, cancellations and a broken escalator at Wanstead Station, local resident Tom Knock decided to dig into TfL’s own data, and found the Central Line is probably worse than you think

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House Proud

As Wanstead House Community Association celebrates its 80th anniversary, local historian Lynn Haseldine Jones talks about the building of the house and its first occupants

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Photo and story

In the 10th of a series of articles featuring images by the Woodford and Wanstead Photographic Society, Anuraj Theivendram explains the popularity of group outings