Barking and Dagenham Through Time
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Barking and Dagenham Through Time by Michael Foley
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.
| SKU | Nicht verfügbar |
| ISBN 13 | 9781445602400 |
| ISBN 10 | 1445602407 |
| Title | Barking and Dagenham Through Time |
| Author | Michael Foley |
| Series | Through Time |
| Condition | Nicht verfügbar |
| Binding type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Amberley Publishing |
| Year published | 2010-11-15 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Cover note | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
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