Wanstead Flats month by month: 2008
A survey of the seasons
These pictures show the changing of the seasons on Wanstead Flats,
a fragment of heathland surviving in the middle of east London.
Technically, it is the southernmost arm of Epping Forest - there are plenty of trees in the high forest a few miles north but,
as you will see, few on the Flats themselves.
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Previous years: 2005 / 2006 / 2007
3 January 2008: a bit scary this. A little girl's lost coat, hanging on a bridleway marker by the Alexandra pond.
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2 February 2008: west of Centre Road, where the funfair comes at bank holidays,
a new ditch has been dug to help drainage, a little bit like the earlier one on the main flats.
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2 March 2008: Billy Smart's circus is back in town, just over from the model yacht pond.
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19 April 2008: Thames Water have mapped out the course of the new main,
scrubbing out bushes here near the Golden Fleece.
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10 May 2008: the site is fenced, leaving only two crossing points,
and earth has been scraped away forming an earth barrier.
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14 June 2008: the main is being buried, even on a Saturday.
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13 July 2008: the Centre Road car park is used as a depot.
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5 August 2008: the main is laid and buried and the spoil smoothed over.
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20 September 2008: as a change from relentless eathworks, early-morning spider work by Capel Road.
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4 October 2008: signs of regeneration above the trench.
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1 November 2008: Newham's firework celebration on the Flats. Rather wet this year.
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13 December 2008: Thames Water finally give a date for the removal of the fencing: next spring.
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