Julie's view of London

My grandparents lived in Dagenham and my grandad worked at Fords until he retired. Whilst working there a charity boxing match was held between a professional boxer called Freddie Mills and an actor called Stewart Granger. The photo below is of the two ‘boxers’ strutting their way to the boxing ring! My grandad is on the left hand side of the picture (wearing a trilby hat), he is with his brother-in-law Bob and his sister Betty (sitting to his right). My Uncle was a little

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