Barking & Dagenham Through Time. Michael Foley [Unabridged] [Mass Market Paperback]

Michael Foley (Author)

Book Description

Series: Through Time | Publication Date: November 2010

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.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 127 pages
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing; First Paperback edition (November 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1445602407
• ISBN-13: 978-1445602400
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,034,806 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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