It sure did, i use to live in halbutt street not far from everything and my school was at Robert clack. looking at what it looks like now, i can safely say I'm glad I got out. And now live in the countryside
God this place has changed so much lived there for years just of hedgemans road went to bishopward rc went to godwin junior, went to rush green college then went uel, i live in south wales been here 26 years never been back to dagenham had a part time job when i was in school at kellys fruit and veg in the indoor market and use to speak to george and frank who use to work on the fruit and veg stall by the bank then you had the old boy at dagenham station selling the papers early in the morning then there was woolworths and gateways which then went into somerfields i also worked in the fish and chip shop half way up the hill and then at the top not sure but thinks it was tony's cafe and he use to sell bread MAD looking at this.
Me too me and my mother lived at 72 broad street other side of the road and Broad street had a big coop supermarket and department store my oh my memories
@@jeffreysherring2636Me too My family lived in the big flat over what became the Ocean Fresh chippy . It was a haberdashery called Forest & Sons before that . Despite George being a really nice guy and kept our rent the same we couldn't stand the smell and late night noise so moved out in 1973 after 32 years there. I carried on working at the Working Men's club as the back cellar boy for about a year or so after that until I left school .
It is no longer Dagenham, it is more like Degana in Rajasthan now and it is totally a dump. I was born in Dagenham in 1947 and mainly grew up in Barking, now when I visit my family, I feel like I am the foreigner. My wife took a bus ride when she visited her mother a few years ago, the bus was quite full and there was four White people on it and two of them sounded to be Polish. My grandson went to school on Thames view estate until he and his dad moved three years ago, there was thirty two pupils in his class anf four of them were White British, most were of Indian extract and a couple were from Eastern Europe. Horrible place now.
@@mayaoye1043 sounds like he's unhappy that British culture has been replaced in his area. He said he's upset that he feels like a stranger in his own home. Dagenham has had it's fair share of immigration because of cheap council houses and very little government investment. All the investment has been from abroad and so you get a lot of Chinese restaurants and Indian run chicken shops. Its no one's fault but you can understand that it upsets some people.
@@mayaoye1043 nothing at all wrong with being Indian or Eastern European but what is wrong for me is that people come and live here but they don`t actually want to be part of the UK, what they actually want is their own country replicated in the UK and by doing this they set up whole communities, take over whole towns to the point that we natives feel as though we are in a foreign land.My comment was not ignorant, it was how a visit to my home town makes me feel, in Barking, I am the foreigner.
@@mayaoye1043 you say "we should all be welcoming to communities" but why should we have our culture replaced by another culture? I can honestly say that where there is an Indian culture present, such as in Barking and Dagenham, they most certainly do not want to have anything to do with the natural British people or the British culture.
The locals did vote BNP. That’s why when the London Olympics was won “They” the government decided to give £30,000 grants to ethnic minorities to vacate and move out to Dagenham. In doing so, causing the locals to move out. Also to add that it was after the Kosovo crisis, where an influx in Kosovians moved in to the area. My School had to build temp buildings to add them to the school curriculum. A class of 32 went up to a class of 40. Which caused no end of issues. The place is one big fuck up. Thanks Tony Blair. “Things can only get better”
Chicken shops, take aways, hair dressers silly little phone shops. more take aways on top of take aways, super-markets that are useless, didn't see one decent shop
