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 …
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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 …
Not a lot going on…
Not a hell of a lot going on science-wise that I can post about at the moment. That is to say, there is a lot going on, but nothing I can tell anyone about. A couple of science stories in the media have caught my attention and I might yet get around to writing something …
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 …
Nutters on the tube
The paragon of comfort and convenience that is the London Underground plays host to a fair number of oddballs, weirdoes and downright nut-cases. These mainly inhabit the central portions of the network. Unfortunately, living as I do, out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy out …