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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...

A family of short-snouted seahorses ( Hippocampus , hippocampus ) discovered in the Thames - now cleaner, past the declining Fords works - and kept a secret until a Wildlife & Countryside Act was passed to protect them. Native to Italy or the Canary Islands, now drifting down the Estuary from Southend, as if water barriers belong to no one. Polski attacks at Barking. Some things suggested clear, I heard, over beer-battered hands in chipshops. The laws, which came into force today, mean that anyone found killing, injuring, or taking any of those species from the wild faces a fine of 5,000 pounds or six months' imprisonment One commentator described this visitation as "like finding treasure" - coming to Dagenham shows their fondness for brackish waters