Barking & Dagenham Through Time Barking & Dagenham Through Time

Barking & Dagenham Through Time

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Publisher Description

This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Barking & Dagenham have changed and developed over the last century. 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.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2010
November 30
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
23
Pages
PUBLISHER
Amberley
SELLER
Amberley Publishing Holdings Limited
SIZE
10.3
MB
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