Whalebone Lane, bit of an odd name for a main road in a town not exactly famed for its whaling fleets, isn’t it? Well, the name derives from Whalebone House, that stood close to the junction of the modern-day High Road and Whalebone Lane. The house taking its name from the large whalebone arch that …
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Local history
A vist to the Tate: Shibboleth
A lucky find in the rubbish and junk fallen into the crack of Doris Salcedo’s Shibboleth.
Fire
No pictures from the archives this week, mainly because I’ve misplaced the box full of photographs. Instead, here is a rather poor shot of the fire in Stratford earlier today. As seen from about two miles away at Mile End about an hour after it started.
Elegantly dressed Wednesday – Me
Lately, I spend much of my working day the cleanroom, well , either of two cleanrooms. Room-A is a pretty basic cap and gown type affair – the room isn’t really clean (class 100,000 to 10,000 depending on how often used; more usually high than low), the kit is really there to control access (limited …
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 …