A Dagenham Inquiry March - July 2008 I thought that to end this project I would have to walk the route of the buildings that remain, from Barking Abbey via the Cross Keys pub to end at Dagenham Ford works. Fords the oiled Mordor of the local economy, symbol of inter and post-war progress, hope, regeneration - towers turreted above Dagenham Heathway, the Thames as moat - demanding faith from the people through the automatic power as provider . That the route would be formed through what remains from Dagenham's marshland and village past towards its great modern enterprise - felcher of Thames water - funneling the hilltop. But to see Dagenham is to get out of Dagenham, to look back towards the towers. This happened almost by chance yesterday as the three of us - Sarah, Pavel and me - left for one of our Summer days out to Rainham Marshes. We took the 103 bus from outside Dagenham Civic Centre towards the War Memorial at Rainham. Aft...