please empty your brain below
A great series of posts DG, I think the fact your destination was ostensibly so dull helped make the end result particularly entertaining and interesting. What next in the jam jar?

Waterhouse | 26.04.12 - 7:57 a.m. | #

A grand finale!

Great Aunt Annie | 26.04.12 - 9:07 a.m. | #

Hmm...that final sentence is bith quite arch, and quite true. but.,wot no illustrated guide to the 91 different house designs of Becontree, along with a statistical analysis of post-1980 home improvements..
;-)

A great series of posts, nonetheless

Dominic | 26.04.12 - 9:26 a.m. | #

Hate to be pedantic (actually I don't, I love it) but Bobby Moore was a defender, not the striker your piece claims...

Jamesthegill | 26.04.12 - 9:37 a.m. | #

It's a shame you've come to an end, but a good finish: it's nice that you found prettiness even in Dagenham. Nice to have a pleasing finale!

Scott | Homepage | 26.04.12 - 9:44 a.m. | #

Its time to get cooking and fill the Jam jar with Jam.

fishislandskin | 26.04.12 - 10:12 a.m. | #

Thanks for making somewhere I wouldn't normally think of visiting come to life - and now I've read your blogs I feel I don't now need to visit there myself.

Brian | 26.04.12 - 10:41 a.m. | #

Nit-picking I know, but Jason Leonard is from Chadwell Heath (OK, LBB&D) and attended Warren School. He did play for Barking RFU Club.

Paul | 26.04.12 - 1:35 p.m. | #

As one of the major uses of the land on which the Becontree estate was built was as market gardens, with much fruit grown to be turned into jam by the Tiptree Jam company there, it has to be said that this is a most fitting termination to the mystery jam-jar-inspired series.

Dominic | 26.04.12 - 1:40 p.m. | #

Sporting mix-ups updated, thanks.
I thought there might be sporting mix-ups.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 26.04.12 - 6:35 p.m. | #

Great series of posts, really enjoyable to read. Amazed at how you've managed to write so much of interest from a borough everyone thought would be so dull.

Joe | 26.04.12 - 7:58 p.m. | #

Turned out to be no such a dull place after all with all that lovely art. Hope the locals appreciate it.

TinafromSurrey | 26.04.12 - 8:18 p.m. | #

It's as if you saved the most interesting to the end - but that's just my bias. And I don't live there. Thanks!

felix | 26.04.12 - 9:56 p.m. | #

A week of excellent posts to mark the end of a fascinating series. Thank you.

CornishCockney | 27.04.12 - 4:25 a.m. | #











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