With ancient royal connections, Wanstead could have been as posh as Richmond and with soaring prices, it might be again Whats going for it? Had history turned differently for Wanstead, it might have become Knightsbridge, St Jamess Park or Richmond. For before east London became east London Dizzee Rascal, scrapyards, cock-er-ney geezers, moustachioed hipsters and all it was rather posh. Wanstead was a royal hunting ground near Epping Forest, where Robert Dudley, Elizabeth Is favourite, had trysts, and where Henry VII would go to escape court scheming. It boasted one of the grandest houses in Georgian England, Wanstead Park, a mini Versailles, according to contemporary accounts, done in the latest style, Palladianism. Fragments remain, such as the Temple, the Grotto and the park, giving the neighbourhoods green streets of haughty villas an elevated air one soon deflated, mind you, by sniffing the carbon monoxide from the M11 link road. Still, history may turn again for Wanstead. Spots west of the river Lea now fetch prices not dissimilar to those of Knightsbridge, St Jamess Park or Richmond, eyes are turning to this, the real East End. The case against Sliced by the North Circular and the M11 link road, against which many citizens rose up in the 1990s and declared the independent republic of Wanstonia. They had a point. Continue reading... dlvr.it/71p9rk
Posted on: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 15:44:40 +0000