General Chat
Welcome to the Genes Reunited community boards!
- The Genes Reunited community is made up of millions of people with similar interests. Discover your family history and make life long friends along the way.
- You will find a close knit but welcoming group of keen genealogists all prepared to offer advice and help to new members.
- And it's not all serious business. The boards are often a place to relax and be entertained by all kinds of subjects.
- The Genes community will go out of their way to help you, so don’t be shy about asking for help.
Quick Search
Single word search
Icons
- New posts
- No new posts
- Thread closed
- Stickied, new posts
- Stickied, no new posts
Made in Dagenham ...
Profile | Posted by | Options | Post Date |
---|---|---|---|
|
jax | Report | 10 Mar 2013 22:02 |
I lived there from 1960 till 1974 and they are the only two I remember....there may well have been others before that. As for Southend I can only place one or two but that would be after 1974 when we moved there from Romford |
|||
Researching: |
|||
|
Kense | Report | 10 Mar 2013 21:49 |
Only two cinemas for Romford, Jax? That doesn't seem enough to me. |
|||
|
jax | Report | 10 Mar 2013 21:36 |
There were two cinemas when I lived in Romford ABC and the Odeon...Oldchurch hospital was about half a mile from where I lived and the new Queen hospital looks like it is on the land where Oldchurch park was, where I spent much of my childhood playing. |
|||
Researching: |
|||
|
Silly Sausage | Report | 10 Mar 2013 21:26 |
My Dad had a ford Pop infact I watched the programe after the film which gave a history of the Ford Dagenham plant and I squealed with delight when I saw the ford pop :-D |
|||
|
RolloTheRed | Report | 10 Mar 2013 21:19 |
My mother was an SRN nurse with the maternity unit at Oldchurch hospital for some years. She may have met some of the people here in their early days lol. |
|||
Researching: |
|||
|
BrianW | Report | 10 Mar 2013 20:49 |
Memories: |
|||
Researching: |
|||
|
RolloTheRed | Report | 10 Mar 2013 18:51 |
A lot of businesses are missing a trick with the still-alive-and-well discrimination against women. In my experience they are more reliable, more focused and far better at networking, leading a team then men who prefer empire building. Best of all they listen. |
|||
Researching: |
|||
|
ChrisofWessex | Report | 10 Mar 2013 16:24 |
No Hayley - but also for a large international co. until 1972 and then joined another large international. |
|||
|
Silly Sausage | Report | 10 Mar 2013 15:25 |
Absolutely PP :-D |
|||
|
DazedConfused | Report | 10 Mar 2013 15:19 |
Thanks to the Suffragettes women got the vote |
|||
Researching: |
|||
|
RolloTheRed | Report | 10 Mar 2013 14:34 |
Romford Rap |
|||
Researching: |
|||
|
Bobtanian | Report | 10 Mar 2013 13:52 |
Days of CB..............A dagenham dustbin with twin twigs........ ;-) |
|||
Researching: |
|||
|
Merlin | Report | 10 Mar 2013 13:38 |
Ah, the days of the faithful "Dagenham Dustbin" when delivery drivers dreaded the thought of going to the Ford works. :-( :-D |
|||
Researching: |
|||
|
RolloTheRed | Report | 10 Mar 2013 13:06 |
Right on. |
|||
Researching: |
|||
|
Silly Sausage | Report | 10 Mar 2013 12:52 |
Do you mean Essex boys and Sean Bean plays the lead? |
|||
|
RolloTheRed | Report | 10 Mar 2013 12:12 |
Great movie I have it on DVD. |
|||
Researching: |
|||
|
BrianW | Report | 10 Mar 2013 05:50 |
I was brought up in Romford so quite a few of our neighbours were associated with Fords at Dagenham. |
|||
Researching: |
|||
|
jax | Report | 10 Mar 2013 00:53 |
I grew up in that area, many neighbours or friends fathers worked at Fords. I cannot remember any women working that had children back then anyway. My mum did'nt return back to work until 1971 (evenings) and not at Fords, when she could then leave me to look after younger sister. |
|||
Researching: |
|||
|
Silly Sausage | Report | 10 Mar 2013 00:42 |
Did you work there Chris? |
|||
|
ChrisofWessex | Report | 9 Mar 2013 23:34 |
It said the law was passed in 1970 - took 2-3 years as I recall for that to kick in. I had not long returned to work. |