Wanstead, The Park, Ornamental Waters c.1955
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Memories of Wanstead, the Park, Ornamental Waters c1955

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. These memories are of Wanstead, The Park, Ornamental Waters c.1955

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It was a long walk to Wanstead Park from where we lived as children.  We lived at  Stephens Road, Stratford West Ham. Weekends and school holidays Mum would pack a picnic for the six of us, usually jam sandwiches or cheese if Mum had some, and a bottle of orange squash. We also had our jam jars and nets for fishing in the ponds for sticklebacks,  a bat and ball, also a football, and off we would go for the day, as most ...see more