We The Harris Family Lived In 86 Dagenham Road

I worked in the greengrocers shop you mentioned in about 1964/65. It was then called Outlaws. I used to open up for Mr Outlaw in the mornings before I went off to secondary school. I had to set out the front display using apple boxes etc and covered with "grass matting" and then lay out the display. I would also serve early morning shoppers. Ah. Memories

I lived at Lincoln Ave from birth in 1936 until going in the army in 1954. I remember Harris the greengrocer, the coop butcher and Murray the newsagent. Early in the 1940s about 8.30 in the morning as I was getting ready for school and looking out of the bedroom window when a couple of German fighters flew up Dagenham Rd and on towards Romford where they machine gunned the gasworks next to the railway line. When I went to school I can remember seeing the gasometers were on fire. Later in the war, a Saturday evening in November 1944 at about 10pm. I was at home with my father, mum was at the cinema in Romford when the V2 dropped at the junction of Fourth Avenue and Dagenham Rd.which was about 50yards from our home. All the windows came out, frames unplaced, doors blown off ,plus all tiles off the roof. My father carried me down to the Anderson shelter in the garden. Apart from a few cuts I was unhurt. Later that night I went out into Dagenham Rd where the Gas main was on fire. I remember the devastation well. There had been a small farmyard in Dagenham Roa

Although I was not born until 1965, I remember the stories of the V2 bomb. I still live at 304,Dagenham rd,the first of the four cottages along from the junction of Fourth ave & Dagenham rd, opposite Lincoln ave.
My mum & Nan were both born in the house (1948 &1920 respectively , the corner of our house was damaged in the blast and it was said that if my great grandmother had been sleeping upstairs in her bedroom & not downstairs, she would not have survived.
Our house was built in 1903 and was one of the farm cottages to Thorntons farm.My Nan was Joyce Clarry (Nee Barrett) & My mum Marion. I have been trying to find photos of the house and surrounding area, but there doesn't seem to be any. If you have any photos I would love to see them.
Coral

I lived at 306 Dagenham Road, from 1961, and my parents lived there from 1956 to to around 1990, we were the Collins family, Mum and Dad were Eileen and Bernard. I remember Joyce and Marion. I have some pictures of us with Joyce and maybe Marion as children in your back garden. I came across them recently when going through my parents old photos after they passed away. They aren't very good quality but you're welcome to have them.
Gill