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This brings back memories of a site visit a few years ago driving round the whole of Barking Riverside including Chequers Lane - it doesn't sound like it has changed much in the intervening years.
I'm a trespasser. Hi-viz clothing is my cloak of invisibility. I have a "full orange" jacket and trousers like railway track workers, with rather uncomfortable safety boots. People just don't see that I'm far too old to have such a job.
Do nautical visits count? PS Waverley has entered TQ4981 many times. There was also a ferry service for Ford workers who parked on the south bank. Easy to travel on but no exit on the north bank for ferry enthusasts.
This is magisterial in all dimensions.
I've not ventured that far down Chequers Lane, always been a bit put off by the traffic. I'll have to go investigate and add it to my bits of Dagenham I've stepped on.

I did go explore it years ago, photos are up on Flickr somewhere and I think you've linked to them in the past when writing about this area.
You are the hero we all need and aspire to.
That was epic.
As far as urbex goes, this beats your Abbott Road trip.
I have almost grazed the Northern edge of TQ4981 - in Autumn 2019 I walked around the perimeter of the the then-decomissioned-but-not-yet-demolished Barking Power Station. I was doing a recce for an event that never happened, thanks to the pandemic…

I did have a quick mooch towards the Southern end of Chequers Lane after I left, but fairly quickly decided it wasn’t a place for the casual wanderer. You are made of sterner stuff !
So many boxes ticked here! Well done!
Great effort. I too have always been slightly confused by many private road signs, and whether they include pedestrians as well as motorists, and indeed who they are actually trying to keep out!
Could see worse outside London with SE8322, allegedly the most uninteresting grid square.
Hold on, sandwich vans playing chimes? Never seen one of those.
The site of the former First Dagenham bus garage in Checkers Lane seems to be that Ocado distribution depot.
Many thanks for visiting these examples of industrial grottery which means I shan’t have to ever set foot there. I prefer viewing it from a distance in the comfort of a c2c train as it speeds by between Elm Park and Dagenham East.
Sorry to be a bore, but I make it 1467 1km squares not 1470.
IMHO the title echos the YouTube series "Unfinished London" by Jay Foreman quite well.
Seeing the phone number on that lawnmower shop makes me think, are there any shops or places that still display an 01 or 071/081 number?

dg writes: Yes.
I started my working life at Ford. Or "Ford's" as the workers there referred to it. I was based in the offices at Warley (Brentwood) but visited the factory at Dagenham. It was 40 years ago but I can still vividly remember the hellish heat and roaring noise from the blast furnace in the engine plant.
I also recall being baffled at how the drivers taking cars off the end of the production line managed to build up enough speed that they wrote off two new Fiestas by crashing into each other.










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