Barking & Dagenham ¦ Love Your London ¦ (6/7) ¦ Ford, the wildfires, Dagenham Dock and Heathway
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2024
- Tristán White and Sharon Crawford begin today's episode at Madonna's Bras, a local landmark just off the A13. They visit Dagenham Dock station, and talk about the old Ford factory, as well as the area's connection with Almussafes near Valencia. They discuss the movie "Made in Dagenham", about the 1968 strike by female workers at the Ford factory. They explain how the Dagenham Breach was formed (also see free E-book below), and the secrets it unveiled. A harrowing trip to Farm Close then followed, scene of a wildfire in July 2022 that destroyed 10 of the 14 houses in that street, and then they visited Dagenham Parish Church to look for the memorial to PC George Clark, a local bobby whose murder has never been solved. A swift drink at the beautiful Cross Keys pub, where they met Gary Edwards, one of the unfortunate residents who almost lost his house on Farm Close, and then it was off to the Dagenham Heathway station, via Ahmad's Tourist Attraction.
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FURTHER VIEWING:
We showed part of a video, "Riding the Death Spine", from the / @tallorderbmx channel. You can see the whole video here:
• RIDING THE DEATH SPINE
However, Love Your London stresses once again that we do not condone this type of behaviour.
We referenced again our special on Romanians in London, in which we visited "La Simon", a shop in Dagenham. You can see that whole epiosde here: • Romanian Diaspora spec...
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Thank you, again, to Gary Edwards for his time, and for sharing the video he was sent from the firefighter. Also, thank you to the firefighter, whoever you were. We do not know your name but we're happy to add it here if you get in touch with us.
Any money that this makes in the future will go to the Firefighters Memorial Trust.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro: Barking & Dagenham ep 6
00:35 Goresbrook Interchange and Madonna's Bras
03:33 Dagenham Dock station and the Ford factory
10:38 Dagenham Breach and the Ford Heritage Centre
12:48 The Lithuanian diaspora
14:21 The Dagenham wildfires of July 2022
23:32 Dagenham Parish Church and PC George Clark
26:04 The Cross Keys pub
28:18 Chat with Gary Edwards, local resident
32:31 Ahmad's Tourist Attraction
35:49 Dagenham Heathway station
37:54 Outro
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Wildfire ? This is 2020s Dagenham. This was deliberate.
Excellent!
Wow you’re so knowledgeable, very interesting.
That "shop" you show @ 13:18 used to be a Fridge/Freezer/Cooker sales store up until the mid-1990's
It was a "dump area" even back then, but now it appears to be even worse.... (if that could even be possible ?)
Across the road USED TO BE (back in the 1940's & 50's & 60's) a decent Pub called "The Chequers"
The area known as " The Chequers " and not Dagenham Dock , because of the pub . A pub by the same name had been there for centuries . The last one had the longest bar in England and was open until bulldozed in the early 70s . On that corner opposite was the Grange Cinema , a real flea pit bought by Wallis supermarkets which replaced it in the 60s . The subterranean public toilets on that corner was the meeting place for kids and rival gangs to scrap it out . The region around Broad St was more of a village than Dagenham Village back then , with its pubs , the WM club variety of shops , cinemas , arenas , bowling ally and most people working at Ford's or a related business all within easy walking distance .
Que pena que mi barrio no esté en LONDON, porque me gustaría que hicieras un reportaje.
¡Gracias! Ya nos gustaría a nosotros que Alicante estuviera a unas pocas paradas en metro :D Por cierto, en este vídeo (y en algún otro) se puede ver subtítulos en castellano (y en catalán y en otros idiomas) ya que he subido el .SRT a Google y con Google Translate se pueden ver haciendo "auto-translate" en la configuración de RUclips en la misma ventana. Traduce los subtítulos que he subido yo, y no los subtítulos automáticos.
My mate Steve lived at 158 Ibscott Close for 16 years & his flat's living room window overlooked THAT Church cemetary seen at 26:26 onwards, plus my mate Haydn was also a Grave-digger there & my Wife's Brother got married there, 1979
Early 2000's there was a drug-gang related incident outside the "Cross Keys" & a guy's hand was hacked-off by an assailant with a Samurai-sword - Steve's "Flat" entrance was YARDS from the "Cross Keys" Pub via an alleyway to your left.
Other thing I forgot to mention is that in the exact same road where the "Cross Keys" Pub is, right at the exact opposite end USED TO BE the actual factory for "Butterkist" = The very famous British Popcorn brand, arguably THE most famous.
Barking & Dagenham Post (rag) says "until the world’s largest popcorn plant was demolished in 1993" - Down the road (A.125) they used to MAKE the Sterling sub-machine gun en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_Armaments_Company
They even named it "The Sterling Works" which is found where the A.125 meets "The Eastbrook" & Oxlow Lane
Clarks Butterkist factory was actually in Blackborne Rd alongside the railway line , marked by Lewis Close the owner of the factory . The long building had " Clarks Butterkist " in large letters that could be seen clearly . The Keys is in Crown St that used to run up to Rainham Rd . All the old buildings except the Keys and Church were ruthlessly demolished by the Borough . The last few included the old almshouses and a timber framed , ship lapped Barclays Bank in the row opposite the Church .
Dagenham Parish was the largest manufacturing local authority during WW2 , not only Sterling at the Eastbrook that you mentioned but Briggs , Kersey Hayes , Ford's of course , TCL , Dagenite , May and Baker etc., all churning out guns , armoured vehicles,,helmets , meds , cables etc., for the war effort . Industry was almost completely wiped out by a continuous Labour government and MPs post war and continued industrial action at Ford's , which is how it changed from a once prosperous community with sports arenas , 3 cinemas, Olympic size pool etc., to a dormitory community of migrants and the unemployed.
There is a toilet at Dagenham dock on the platform you was on but you need to ask in the ticket office for the key
Not always anyone in ticket office .