Barking and Dagenham Through Time
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A01=Michael Foley
Art Architecture & Photography
Author_Michael Foley
Category1=Non-Fiction
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Cultural History
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History
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IMPN=Amberley Publishing
ISBN13=9781445602400
Local & Urban History
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PD=20101115
Photography
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Subject=Local Interest- Family History & Nostalgia
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- ISBN 9781445602400
- Weight: 299g
- Dimensions: 165 x 234 x 10mm
- Publication Date: 15 Nov 2010
- Publisher: Amberley Publishing
- Publication City/Country: Chalford, GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Despite the close connection between Barking and Dagenham now, there was an obvious difference in how the two places developed. Built in the seventh century, Barking's abbey elevated the town into significance, while Dagenham, until quite recently, was only a small rural village. By the nineteenth century, Barking was an industrial town, its wealth growing around the town quay, while Dagenham was still focused on farming. Dagenham changed dramatically after the First World War when the Becontree estate, the largest council estate in the world at the time, engulfed the small village. Along with the new houses came new industries on the banks of the Thames and in other smaller industrial estates. As Barking spread eastward and the Becontree estate spread to the west, the space between the two towns began to disappear and Barking and Dagenham merged. However, as the pictures in this book show, among the modern buildings there are still signs of the past, when both towns were separate entities.
Michael Foley is a local author who has had a number of articles published in magazines such as Best of British, This England and The Great War. He has been writing for some time and has had many books published, mainly about the area where he lives and Essex and Military History. He lives in Romford.
