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Essex as a county is more than 1000 years old.
Its origins date back to the time before William the Conqueror. The county
borders remained more or less unchanged until 1965 when the part of Essex, that
in the main was located between the River Lea and todays M25 orbital road, was absorbed into London.
On April 1st 1965, following an act of Parliament, five new London Boroughs were created from terrirory that was once part of Essex. The county of Essex was founded as the Eastern Kingdom of the Saxons.Its name derives from the Old English East Seaxe and today the county of Essex bears three
seaxes on its coat of arms. The Saxon Kingdom may also have included parts of modern Hertfordshire and the now defunct ancient county of Middlesex.
Also as a result of the change the London wide administrative body, the London County Council (the LCC), was replaced by the Greater London Council (the GLC). The GLC (now the GLA) has responsibility for 32 new London Boroughs. Apart from Essex the new authority also took territory from Kent, Surrey and Hertfordshire. The River Lea border that separated Essex and London and had been in place for 1000 years ceased to exist. In a series of chapters set in more or less chronological order, Once in Essex Now in London offers the reader a rich and diverse history where the authors focus on events, places and personalities going back over a thousand years. With over 70 illustrations, Once in Essex Now in London is essential readings for anyone with an interest in London and Essex.
Contents
Contents
Page
No.
7 List of Illustrations
10 Acknowledgements
11 Introduction
14 The Hide and the Hundred
16 Five New Boroughs
And
the eleven that were lost
23 Wrong Turning
25 Detached Woolwich
27 Bow Bridge, the Gateway to Essex
England's
First Stone Arched Bridge
31 Stratford's Langthorne Abbey (West Ham
Abbey)
33 Tyndale's Friend of North Ockendon
35
The Rise and Fall of Barking Abbey
37 The Great Standing
38 The Stratford Martyrs
39 Guess Who's Coming to Lunch?
41 The Plotters of Barking
42 Breached
45 Ruined
49 The Fairlop Oak
51 The Home of John Bull
52 Royal Small Arms Factory
and
a Small Island on the River Lea
54 Going, Going, Gone
56 Valentines House
There's
nowhere quite like it
61 The Lady and Gentleman on the Five Pound
Note
63 Rocket Man
62 The World's Biggest Fishing Fleet
at
Barking!
66 PC George Clark -
Buried in God's
Little Acre
72 Christmas Day at the Workhouse
73 Poles Apart
75 The Destruction of Hainault Forest
76 The Cathedral of Sewage
80 Denial
82 The Lake District
85 The Father to Nobody's Children
88 Triumph and Disaster in Bow Creek
91 The People's Forest
93 Thomas Willingale -
The Lopper of
Loughton
93 William Morris,
the
Walthamstow Connection
98 Steam Trams to Portugal
99 Disaster at Gallions Reach
102 Woolwich Ferry
104 When the Whales Came
105 Moby Dick, Whalebones and the Night
Oliver
Cromwell Died
107 The Greatest Show on Earth
The first reality
show (In Ilford and Leyton)
111 Britain's First Aerodrome (In Dagenham)
113 The Wilderness Eton Manor
115 The Last Three Week Election
118 Survivor
120 The 13th Essex , the Hammers
122 Silvertown (1917)
London's Biggest
Explosion
124 Homes for Heroes
126 The Body Snatcher?
132 Mr and Mrs Robinson come to Dagenham
135 It all started in a Tea Shop (in Ilford)
138 The Barking Pageant
(Ilford
1932)
139 Upminster Air Tragedy
142 Gone to the Dogs
145 The Great Escape
&
The Dagenham Girl Pipers
147 Evacuation
149 From Kitchen Cabinets to Bombers
151 Churchill and the Lion -
saved by M&B693
153 Jerrycans, Helmets, Bread and Parachutes 154 Matchbox Ghosts
156 Wembley, World Cup Final
Dagenham
Boys
157 Churchill
The Honorable Member
for Wanstead
and Woodford
158 Pack of Cards
161 The Beckton Alps
163 Ten Steel Guardians
166 The Pentonville Five
168 All Change at the Docks
168 Stratford's Mills and Film Studios
172 Dagenham Light Infantry
174 The Great Railway Hub
(and Robert)
176 The Beautiful Game
181 Legacy
