The difference a decade makes…

Continuing from last week’s theme of the construction of Dagenham, we move to the area around Dagenham parish church and see how it changes over a period of ten years. This first image shows the Leys Field and Church Elm Lane as they were c.1950. Leys in an old name for this area, dated to …

Dagenham – 11th July 1921 & June 1931

By mid 1921, the construction of the Becontree Estate and the enlargement of Dagenham was gathering pace. The photograph below shows an aerial view of the west of the estate looking north to Chadwell Heath. The two prominent roads running parallel to the bottom of the photograph and diagonally to the right are Longbridge Road …

Open House

Once again the London Open House weekend has swung around and found me plan-less; not that I’ve had no warning, dg has mentioned it on and off for the last month. I shall make hasty plans, restricting myself to my home towns and try and turn up something interesting. __________________________________________________ Dagenham Civic Centre: Just me …

A walk on the wild side – to Barking

After making good my escape from entrapment in the building yard, I carried on down River Road hoping to get back to the riverside at some point. River Road Once one of the primary industrial roads in Barking, servicing the old Barking power station and various warehouses and stores along the Thames, now the road …