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Interesting.

Given the schematic nature of the tube map, that last puzzle piece place is everywhere and nowhere.
I believe the Church/Food Bank premises was actually a bank rather than a pub in its past life.

dg writes: Updated, thanks.
To see a world in a grain of sand, and Dagenham in a blank jigsaw-puzzle piece. Bravo!
Thank you for this post - genuinely joyful that you thought to do this. Pure Diamond Geezer.
DG gold.
This is why I read this blog every day.
795 words.

:winking-smiley-face-thing*
Ford still exist at Dagenham. A smaller plant, but they make diesel engines there, employing 1800 people

Not a good situation long term admittedly, as the fuel of the future (great for CO2) now looks like the fuel of the past...
Ah, a stone's throw from where I spent some of my childhood.

Inevitable pedantic note: right to buy is not responsible for the spread of pebbledash on the Rylands estate, as it was one of the few bits of Dagenham that wasn't made up by council housing; it was always private.

And however flawed the tweely named "Orchard Village" may be (and it really is), what it replaced, the unlicensed partially high rise Mardyke Estate was surely worse. But in this part of London (and Barking too) it seems that town planners repeat their mistakes from generation to generation. Not least, why I got out.
This post may make some 2012 ceremonies volunteers reminisce, as you've walked past our anti-glamorous rehearsal area opposite McD, GMaps still shows a couple of oval stadium footprints.
As the tube map is only extremely loosely based on geography, this jigsaw can now be a splendid future source of inspiration of places to visit - eg all the pieces on the third row, tenth column, etc.
You mentioned how the tube map "squashes reality somthing rotten" horizontally. This is worsened on current maps (rather than your jigsaw) because they put so much legend down the side rather than underneath. They really should make the most of landscape layout because:
a) That is more accurate
b) They need to fit in lots of words (which are horizontal)
I find this a great post (having almost missed it because of the unusual posting time). Not sure if the explanation is:
1) the chosen area is intrinsically interesting,
2) anywhere populated is intrinsically interesting
3) DG can make anywhere interesting
When I finish a jigsaw puzzle (with no pieces missing), there are two equal last pieces. The final placement is a binary choice which can be based on the characteristics of either piece.
Brilliant! This is why I love this blog! Pure Diamond Geezer!
the first person in the world to visit a place corresponding to the hole left by the last piece of a jigsaw?
Does Geofftech's comment have an explanation? More importantly, would someone care to share it?
Hope this is not spoiling a good mystery, but Geofftech had envisaged a DG field trip and “3,000+ words” in response to the 1:00 a.m. blogpost revealing the completed puzzle.
Gosh you do some ‘interesting’ things. I’m glad you made this journey, not me. I think the vicarious travel is better on this occasion.
I'm curious to note the parking protocol in one of your photographs.

I assume the area is 'outside London' from a parking perspective because there seem to be many vehicles parked on the pavement?

dg writes: Dagenham is at least three miles inside London.










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