A London’s Screen Archives partner collection: We exist to find, preserve and make available written records of Barking and Dagenham's people and communities. Our edition on July 11, 1979 - Credit: Archant. New Photos released in October 2020 New Photos released in September 2020 New Photos released in August 2020 The Digitisation Project The Dagenham pictures section was updated, May 2008. Presentation given by Mr L. Cannon to cleaner Mrs Rempson at Valence House, Dagenham, 1969 Housing development in Vicarage Road, Dagenham, showing mixed styles and demolition of housing, 1969 Housing development, showing partly demolished houses on the east side, north and between the ‘villas’ at the south end of Vicarage Road, Dagenham, 1969 Among the images are a street scene from Dagenham Broadway in 1910 and people crossing the road - narrowly avoiding a tram - outside Barking station, which opened in 1854, The History of Barking Reach has been added (October 2007), Barking in the 1890s and The Manor of Barking from 1500-1750 (January 2008). The parish includes the hamlets of Chadwell Heath and Beacontree Heath, and has a post… The club used an old barn at Stubbers in Ockendon to "hang out". Our archives reveal how the Dagenham Post reported a blackmailer 70 years ago was caught in the act, how upset a little girl 40 years ago was who lost her dog and the headmaster 20 years ago who single-handedly manned the baracades to stop travellers invading his school. Coronavirus: Thank you for the amazing support we have received from our customers during the last few months. 46,187 Aberdeen Press and Journal 41,796 Dundee Courier 35,887 Liverpool Echo 34,336 Northern Whig 33,416 Morning Post More Newspapers Countries 2,984,832 England 709,911 Ireland 601,553 Scotland 120,495 Wales Increasingly, those records are complemented by audio, film and photographic materials. Photo of Dagenham, c.1950 from Francis Frith. In about 1964 I belonged to Marley Motorcycle Club which l think was based at Marley school in Dagenham. Housing development, showing demolition at the east side of Vicarage Road, Dagenham, 1969 The ‘Playleadership Scheme’ decorated carnival parade float at the Barking Carnival, 1969 Two children playing in the water at the Barking Park open air Swimming Pool, 1969 Our office and factory are based in a rural area which has made it practical for us to remain open for business. Dagenham, a village and a parish in Essex, on an affluent of the Thames, and on the London, Tilbury, and Southend railway, on which there is a station, and 3½ miles S by W of Romford. Our office and factory are based in a rural area which has made it practical for us to remain open for business. We had a basic kitchen, a few old sofas and parked the motorbikes right outside. Mervyn Gould's details on cinema's was also added (Summer 2008), and has been updated in 2019 by myself from this original. Coronavirus: Thank you for the amazing support we have received from our customers during the last few months.