Oxlow Lane

A Memory of Dagenham.

I remember in Oxlow Lane a shop called Wrights, they sold flour from sacks on the floor, and a 'penny a lb' of broken biscuits. Also a furniture shop - can't recall the name, oh and then the launderette was opened, was that a life saver or what, no more peggy tub and washboard. My mum, worked at the Eveready battery factory, on the corner of the Eastbrook Oxlow Lane traffic lights. I used to go swimming at Leys open air pool - it was always freezing cold, put me off swimming. The school used to take us there, we got the hot Oxo and crisps after. Then I discovered the indoor pool at Seven Kings - lovely and warm there. I went to work at May and Bakers in the 1980's - it's Senofi Aventis now. Moved to Lincolnshire, came back to Dagenham, then went to work at Fords p.t.o. in Dagenham - retired from there just before they closed down.