Julie's view of London

My family were originally from the East End of London but moved to Dagenham and then to Essex when I was a little girl. I now live in Langdon Hills which I am happy to say is home to the Essex Wildlife Trust's largest inland nature reserve, it has an abundance of wildlife, woodlands, flowers and trees and covers 460 acres. At the turn of the century Londoners who were looking for a haven in the countryside came to live in the area. There had been a decline in agriculture du

Dagenham life in the 1930s, my grandads sea adventures and some an excerpt from my great-grandfathers short book about Fords of Motor Compan