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Flats in Seabrooke Rd
Flats of this vintage are not common on the Becontree Estate as it was mostly constructed between the world wars. TQ4786 has just about the least green space of any grid square on the estate it being almost equidistant from Valance Park in the East and Goodmayes park in the West
Image: © Glyn Baker
Taken: 22 Sep 2005
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Dusk over Becontree Avenue
Image: © David Howard
Taken: 21 Oct 2017
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St Thomas, Haydon Road, Becontree - East end
Image: © John Salmon
Taken: 19 Feb 2005
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St Thomas, Haydon Road, Becontree - Sedilia
Image: © John Salmon
Taken: 19 Feb 2005
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St Thomas, Haydon Road, Becontree - Organ
Image: © John Salmon
Taken: 19 Feb 2005
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Valence Avenue, Becontree Estate
The London County Council decided to build the Becontree Estate to house many of the people from the East End of London displaced by slum clearance schemes. Barking and Dagenham, being almost flat and well-drained, offered an ideal site. Between 1920 and 1922 the LCC acquired 3,000 acres of land in Barking and Dagenham, as well as adjoining parts of Ilford, using compulsory purchase powers. Building started almost straight away, at first centred near Goodmayes and Chadwell Heath, and from 1923 around Dagenham Village. These centres soon joined up, and building continued until 1934. By 1932 the population had grown to 103,328 from 2,086 in 1922.
Before development took place, most traces of the former landscape were obliterated. All the former farmhouses were demolished with the sole exception of Valence House which was saved when it was purchased from the LCC in 1926 by Dagenham Urban District Council. The landscape was largely devoid of trees and so it is difficult to find any tree within the Becontree Estate which pre-dates the development, other than those in the grounds of Valence House and Parsloes Park.
There was a new layout of geometrically designed roads, sometimes with central reservations as here in Valence Avenue. Some of the pre-existing roads such as Wood Lane and Bennett's Castle Lane were retained, but others such as Gale Street and Broad Street were rerouted or lost.
Image: © Marathon
Taken: 30 Nov 2016
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St Thomas, Haydon Road, Becontree - Window
Melchizedek
Image: © John Salmon
Taken: 19 Feb 2005
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St Thomas, Haydon Road, Becontree
Image: © John Salmon
Taken: 19 Feb 2005
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St Thomas, Haydon Road, Becontree - Window
The Last Supper
Image: © John Salmon
Taken: 19 Feb 2005
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St Thomas, Haydon Road, Becontree - East end
Image: © John Salmon
Taken: 19 Feb 2005
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