Barking & Dagenham ¦ Love Your London ¦ (3/7) ¦ River Roding, Creekmouth, Barking Riverside

After paying a short visit to the Quaker Burial Ground, Tristán White and Sharon Crawford take a walk alongside the River Roding, and tell you about its rich history and it's exciting future. We detour via Greatfields Park/Alfreds Way to see Bobby Moore's former home, buy freshly-made biltong and droewors at Hunter's in the Lyon Business Park, see the new Wharf Studios, check out the train outside Blumsom's Timber (and explain how it got there), visit the Barking Creek Barrier (near Beckton Sewage Works) at the confluence of Roding with Thames, tell the sad story of the 1953 floods that wiped out Creekmouth (photos thanks to Creekmouth Preservation Society), as well as the awful SS Princess Alice disaster which collided with Bywell Castle collier in 1878 (worst transport disaster in UK history and worst inland transport disaster in the world), talk about Crooked Billet pub, visit Bullman Marine on River Road, talk about the now-disappeared Dagenham Sunday Market, visit Barking Riverside station (London's newest station) which serves the new area dubbed by the media as Barcelona-on-Thames, and take a ferry from Barking Riverside Pier. Phew, that's a lot, isn't it?
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"Lost World of the River Roding":
• Lost World of the Rive...
Barking Riverside:
• Welcome to Barking Riv...
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FURTHER READING/ VIEWING:
Elizabeth Fry book "While it is yet Day"
Averil Douglas Opperman:
www.amazon.co.uk/While-Yet-Da...
Angela Jean Young's book on SS Princess Alice tragedy, "Field of Dust":
www.amazon.co.uk/Field-Dust-A...
Iain Sinclair's book, "The Last London":
www.amazon.co.uk/Last-London-...
LYL episode 1 (Barking Town Centre):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zibfs...
We mention episode 2:
• Barking & Dagenham ¦ L...
We also mention ep 3 of Balham/Tooting Bec series, where we visit the Gurdwara:
• Balham ¦ (3/6) ¦ Love ...
The Romanian special, (it will jump to the correct location for our food at this particular restaurant, min 45)
• Romanian Diaspora spec...
Short Blue Fleet / Hewett family, great photos & video: shortbluefleet.org.uk/
• Old Trawlers
Blumsoms Timber merchants :
blumsom.co.uk/
Do get in touch with us at [e-mail] if you have any spare cedar you would otherwise throw away!
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USEFUL LINKS:
Roding River Trust):
riverrodingtrust.org.uk/
1931 aerial photo Creekmouth:
britainfromabove.org.uk/image...
Report about Bywell Castle shipwreck:
www.wrecksite.eu/docBrowser.a...
A timetable for ferries (Uber Boat) to/from Barking Riverside:
www.thamesclippers.com/plan-y...
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro: Barking & Dagenham ep 3
01:31 Barking Gurdwara and the Quaker Burial Ground
05:42 The River Roding Trust
10:02 Origins of the names "Ilford" and "Barking"
12:15 The River Roding is a tidal river
14:25 The Barking Bridge (1904) and the new Loxford Plaza
15:40 The Hewetts, well smacks, etc
21:33 Getting lost in the Fresh Wharf development
22:56 The Moorings and over to the left bank
23:54 Beckton Sewage Works teaser
27:02 Greatfields Park
29:00 Waverley Gardens: Bobby Moore's house
30:57 Hunter's Biltong, from Barking!
32:08 River Road. Wharf Studios and Blumsoms
36:48 Creekmouth floods and the Barking Creek Barrier
42:17 The SS Princess Alice disaster (and mural)
46:25 The Restaurant River (former Crooked Billet)
47:28 Bullmans Marine (Self storage)
48:51 Former home of Dagenham Sunday Market
49:32 The brand-new Barking Riverside station
54:39 Barking Riverside Pier; and the realisation...
59:52 Outro
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[@mattweeden3884]

Very interesting. I was born in Barking and I learned things I didn’t know.

[@LoveYourLondon]

Glad you enjoyed it! There's more to come.

[@AlexS-bi7of]

The right side is actually Newham Tristan not Tower Hamlets, that's a bit further west.

[@LoveYourLondon]

Argghh you're right! Ooops.