please empty your brain below
Aaargh! Call the apostrophe police!

Karen | Homepage | 08.10.12 - 7:48 a.m. | #

Chip's?

Andrew | 08.10.12 - 8:31 a.m. | #

get of your high horse and smell the roses

mark | 08.10.12 - 10:05 a.m. | #

mark - surely " rose's " ?

JohnHB | 08.10.12 - 10:24 a.m. | #

point taken

mark | 08.10.12 - 10:43 a.m. | #

To help those who prefer to use public transport here is a quote from the Dagenham Market website:
"If you're using the bus to get to Dagenham Sunday Market, we're running a free bus service from Barking Station.

The bus leaves Barking Station at half past every hour, starting at 8:30am and the last bus being at 2:30pm. It leaves Dagenham Market on the hour, every hour from 9am up until 3pm...and it's free so hop on board and visit the market this weekend!"

James Bunting | 08.10.12 - 1:25 p.m. | #

Hmm. I used to go to the old Dagenham Sunday Market, a bit smaller, but at a barely more salubrious location, down at the bottom of Chequers Lane (Actually in Dagenham, note). That was a bit easier to get to - there was a frequent (if grotty) bus service from Chequers Corner (junction with A13).

Sounds like the "new" one (must have been on this location for well over 10 years now) is pretty similar in spirit to the other one....

I'm sure it's just a coincidence that both the former and present markets are in locations ideal for selling stuff that has just "fallen off the back of a boat" if you know what I mean...

(I recall once seeing a sign warning that someone had been kidnapped down the road to Creekmouth. A bit of a change from the run-of-the-mill Met Police big yellow notices.)

Dominic H | 08.10.12 - 7:04 p.m. | #

Interesting post. I'm really glad you wrote about Creekmouth - I thought I was one of the only people to have taken a trip to this depressing district for leisure purposes!

Just to remind me why I won't be in a hurry to return there, I took one of the 10 weekly bus trips into the place and decided to video the trip for posterity - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiGhcLJjnJk I certainly feel for the family who had to find the nearest 387 bus stop which didn't have a soul destroying timetable showing the next bus as at 17:30 the next day!

The Urbanite | 09.10.12 - 2:07 a.m. | #

I'm visiting Creekmouth for "leisure" purposes on 25 October. I'm aiming to catch the 1706 bus to Barking if anyone wants to come along.

Chris | 09.10.12 - 10:38 p.m. | #

I was very interested to see your blog on the Dagenham Sunday Market, not for the market itself but because of the location which appears to be on the exact site of the old Barking Power Station.
I was an apprentice at Barking from 1955 to 1960 and, at the time it was the largest Power Station in Europe. It was actually 3 stations, A B & C built in stages and had 44 steam boilers. I now live in Western Australia and have tried to find photos or information about the old station but without success.
Before going to Barking I was several months at a training school at Bankside Power Station, now of course the Tate Modern.

Terry Mercer | 10.10.12 - 6:05 a.m. | #

Hi Terry

It is precisely the location of the old Barking Power Station - in 1925 the largest power station in the UK.

Here are two photos from above:
» http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw021371
» http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw012742

Here's a bit of background:
» http://www.lbbd.gov.uk/MuseumsAndHeritage/LocalHistoryResources/Documents/Infosheet7BarkingPowerStation.pdf

And here are some photos and a video taken inside more recently:
» http://www.urbexforums.com/showthread.php/16547-Barking-Power-Station-Control-Room-and-Offices-Jan-2012
» http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=21298
» http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMvSjzI8Fmg

Amazing place.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 10.10.12 - 6:50 a.m. | #

Many thanks for the links, DG. The BfA photos show only the 'A' station as 'B' was, I believe, finished in 1937 and 'C' station was still being completed in the 1950's.

Terry Mercer | 10.10.12 - 9:57 a.m. | #

'Creekmouth |Power/Station was the destination on 23C and 156 bus routes in the 60's, 70's and 80's (and the 62 on Sundays to suit shift change times). 'Creekmouth via Remploy', and 'Remploy Works Long Reach Road' were variants in the same area. If the Remploy factory is still there, it presumably won't be for much longer....

Paul | 10.10.12 - 10:50 a.m. | #

Dagenham Sunday Market...
permanently closed 2020.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 03.06.20 - 11:07 p.m. | #











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