To the person who lived in Hereford road Barking , it was not demolished until mid 80s as I lived there until 84.

Looking for a copy of the dagenham post 1970 during the duke of Edinburgh vist , landed helicopter at castle green, myself and sister were photographed, and published on front page, would love to have a copy

I would love to see the Barking and Dagenham Post digitised and seen on the BNA.

I've lived in Dagenham for 60 years. My mother lived here until she was 95 last year. Lots of good memories

Further updates good paper for researching the area

Be great to see more content added especially the 1960s when I grew up in this area

Add suitable years

Our history needs to be saved

This would be an intriguing read

Please add the 1980s editions

Only just found this I was at DCH from1952 and I remember all those teachers Mr Deakin Mr Pugh when in first year Dudley Moore was head boy(big crush) I had a particular friend Brenda Springall who I would love to contact again

In long past summers I played cricket at Mayesbrook Park. We didn't have a club house so our 'home' was the Robin Hood, a stroll away. It also staged 'gentlemens' evenings', which were a source of mild titillation and many laughs. I saw Jim Davidson there before he got really famous. He came out with the original line, copied by many of, when seeing a young lad near the front, would say 'Are you old enough ? Does your Mum know you're here ?'. After the negative reply he'd say 'Well she will soon. she's on next.'

It's now sadly, a supermarket.

I was there from 1948-1955. Remember many staff: "Slugger" Watson -brilliant languages teacher, Mr. Day, Mr. Dakin, Mr Shepherd, Mr. Grainger -never got on with him, Mr. Davis, Mr. Pugh, Peter Cork -who I remained in contact with until his death in 2012. I played at his memorial concert in Folkestone. I did A level music with Dudley Moore and we sometimes performed together in concerts, house festivals and at Kingsley Hall. Interesting how many pupils emigrated to Canada, Australia and USA. What a different life they must have found to post-war Dagenham. Dudley went off to Oxford in 1955 and I went to play in Coldstream Guards Band for 3 years before becoming a teacher -music, of course. Now at 81, i still look back and wonder what happened to all the contemps. Charlie Law, Peter Setrem ( he became a languages teacher in Forest Hill), John Whitwell (met up with him,am still in contact. He is retired vicar) Roy Bannister, John Megson, Joan Cowie, Barbara Graver, Mavis Kemp...etc. Brian Astell (Bas)

Anybody remember Pesci the fish and chip shop near car path. You could either sit down and eat or take away.

I too lived in joan road no7 from 1938 -1952 ,there were so many boys in our street, 9 in a row of 4 houses.! what great times they were

As there are no memories of Chadwell Heath I thought I would add one. I started my first job at Teleflex Products that was situated in Wangy Works. I use to cycle from where I lived at Grange Hill Chigwell. After I did my National Service I then worked for Motor Gear Engineering across the road from Wangy Works, The last time I visited England I found that Wangy Works and Motor Gear Engineering were no longer there. On the site of Motor Gear there was a DIYS store.
When I worked for Motor Gear, at the back, there was a soft drink company that made a drink called Kiaora. The owner of this must have come from NZ as Kia ora is a Maori greeting.
One of my strongest memories at Wangy Works was sitting on the railway embankment at the back watching the trains and also cycling from there to Beal Grammar school in (I think) Little Ilford Lane to attend evening classes. Fond memories of my early working life.

My Dad Pete King worked in Fords Factory before WWII. He played football for the factory too and this game led to his job. He then left to go to war and played football in the army. I live in Australia and can't do very much research about this so if someone can help with this era I loved to hear. Anything at all to add to my Dad's story would be great.

this is a strange but true story and I hope that one day I can meet the family of the above man.
Arthur Warrington was born in the village i believe, he went to war in the first world war and also returned after the conflicts were over, he was my wife's father, however we are told to never trace where he came from and I think that this was very unfair on my wife of 52 years, we are both in our 70s and i know that my wife would love to meet some of her real relations even though the Warrington family seem to not want too, ironically we live very close to the village in Awsworth in Nottingham,
I have photos of the village and also i have a photo of a very old woman, we believe that she is Arthurs mum which of course makes the woman my wife's grand mother. I have pictures of the village when it was a beautiful place and probably still is, We have never been to the village and would love to come and see if there is any of the family still able to tell us what the controversy was years ago.
I know that when i started the search I spoke to a councillor of your village hall and he told us that Lewis Warrington had just died I thought it to be too close as anyone might think we were tracing the family for obvious reasons, ironically the name we originally started off tracing was of course Lewis Warrington.
I once spoke to some one who said that he knew of a Ken Warrington, well there is a Ken Warrington here still alive but in his 80s. Ernie, Hilda and Frank Warrington have all passed on there seems to be names very close to each other as well.
My wife's name was Margaret and her sister was Sheila.

Upload 71-81 years cheers

My mother worked for Reynolds Bros. Grocers in Chadwell Heath just before going to live in New Zealand. This was in 1950. Her name was Connie Fynn, nee Cocklin, of Becontree Av.