It’s interesting when walking around to take a look and see if you can work out how long something has been in place. Some things are easy, a church or other public building may have a dedication stone; you can estimate how old a tree is from its size. How do you work out how …
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Barking and Dagenham, borough of culture?
Via The Dagenham Post and Diamond Geezer’s ‘blog I discover that Barking and Dagenham are competing for the role of London Borough of Culture. Alas, I missed any mention of this before the launch event, which DG has covered as part of his exploration of the borough’s historic features, else I’d have taken a day …
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Ethnic diversity of Barking and Dagenham
The artist Yanko Tihov has created this map of London diversity made from passport covers. The PDF with keys is here The details for Barking and Dagenham (as given) are 1. Nigeria 2. India 3. Philippines From personal experience, I’d have expected Irish and Polish to feature higher.
Fire comes to Dagenham
As part of the Dagenham Town Show parade, the [REDACTED] torch, outriders, runners, police and sponsors came to town. Other boroughs get the torch on midweek mornings, we got to incorporate the visit into the annual carnival parade. Unfortunately, I’ve no idea of the identity of the chap carrying the touch, if you know drop …
Election Commentary
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