dagenham

There are even middle class professionals in Barking & Dagenham - it's well covered by the new Elizabeth line.

And how on Earth is a new market in Dagenham spec’d as costing a large fraction of a billion quid?

So it's not really a loss to give up on the Dagenham plan.

Partly cost disease, partly just that even Dagenham is expensive these days.

Multiple generations have driven Fords and have worked at the Dagenham plant and at the former Cork plant, built aircraft engines during WW2 there.

I was literally in Dagenham Morrisons 30 minutes, only 2 staff had masks, one was wearing his around his neck.

> how on Earth is a new market in Dagenham spec’d as costing a large fraction of a billion quid?

As opposed to London, where you famously are as likely to see people of all walks of life and income comingle in a tesco in Dagenham as you are in Kensington.

I live in Greater London, Dagenham to be precise.

Then on the other side of the divide you have parts of outer east London like Dagenham which are perhaps more culturally similar to other struggling post-industrial places like Stoke or Middlesborough.

It covers the drastic demographic change immigration brought to Dagenham in Essex, after EU enlargement happened with no restrictions on immigration (which the UK Labour government was actually allowed to impose by the EU, but didn't).

I have fallen asleep on the District line meaning to change at Embankment, and woken up in Essex, this has happened around 4 or 5 times (usually after a couple of beers) and it costs around £120 (~$200) from Dagenham East to Camden – a private hire would be much cheaper – and I'd welcome it.

I want something (exactly) like a Ford Escort 1988 model with the 1.6 diesel (Ford LT "Dagenham") engine.

At some point you have to ask what you're actually preserving, because "Smithfields Market (rebuilt in Dagenham in 2025)" isn't really that historical.

Except the article states the move to Dagenham has been "dropped".

"We won, you lost, get over it!" As my taxi driver neighbour in Dagenham like saying.

Small plot, nothing large scale but the machines (eg: Fordson - built in Dagenham, England b/w 1948 and 1952) were cheap, reliable and totally fixable.

But the plan was never to keep it, the plan was to knock it down and tell the people who had been working there to go work in Dagenham.

I had honestly made my peace with it moving to Dagenham.