Posts Tagged ‘Walthamstow Stadium’
BAG Newsletter
URGENT COUNCIL CONSULTATION The council would like residents feedback on plans to site Willowfield school at the top of the Douglas Eyre playing fields. Visit the Building Schools for the Future consultation here to give them your views. As usual with council consultations they’ve waited until less than a week before the closing date to [...]
BAG September Newsletter
Firstly apologies for originally posting the wrong date on the website but the bat walk was a great success. The evening was dry after a sunny day and 18 people turned up at the Coppermill Pub. We learned various details about bats and heard their noises on a “Bat detector” which was tuned into the appropriate [...]
Walthamstow Dogs: A video tribute
On Saturday the 16th of August a few thousand of Walthamstow and Chingford’s diverse community enjoyed a cheap, fun and family night out at the dogs for probably the last time. For over 75 years “The Stow” has been Walthamstow’s flagship, a source of local pride and the constant reply of people when told you [...]
Save Our Stow in the news
With Walthamstow Dogs scheduled to hold its last race on Saturday 16th August, the fight to save the stadium from the bulldozer has received extensive press and TV coverage. Consortiums who want to continue racing at The Stow have put in bids to buy or lease the track from the housing developers who have no [...]
No option to sell Walthamstow Dogs… really!?
After the shock of Walthamstow dogs being “sold” behind their back, local community anger and resolve to object to all new planning aplications for the site has grown along with the question, was there really no other option but to sell to property developers? “We were left with no option but to sell the stadium [...]
Walthamstow Dogs To Close!
Photo by Alibiphoto “The main purpose of listing a building is to ensure that care will be taken over decisions affecting its future“ So said the Department for Culture, Media and Sport in 2007 as Culture Minister David Lammy announced the listing of Walthamstow Stadium declaring it “wouldn’t be going to the dogs“. He stated: [...]
