News just in from our Shirley, we’re moving into the Ropeworks in central Barking in early September, which has the main library in the basement. Time to start reading books again?
Full spec of the regeneration for Barking centre square here; Muf architecture art were commissioned to design a new Town Square for Barking, which is [...]
Good news for residents of the Gascoigne Estate, the estate managment team have made a step forward with an advice surgery to deal with issues ranging from noise to improvements.
The petty serial arsonist/s continue in Barking. This time it was right in our face as the fire was right next to us. I’d just finished setting up portable shelves in the lock-up when we heard the shout, some African guy stuck in his flat with the fire below him. So for the very first [...]
If you live in the Barking/SW Essex area I recommend:
1. For boilers & plumbing, HEH (High Efficency Heating). Phone: 0800 389 9613 / 01708 752 700. Actually, scrub that after they left following a recent service the bolier started leaking badly after the guy put too much air (so the next bolier guy said) [...]
In our apartment block in Barking thieves cleverly got round to stripping lead off the roof over the weekend. The police came round but no luck in capturing the people involved. I spoke to an official source who confirmed this was by no means an isolated phenomena. And who confirmed it was due to the [...]
Q: How do you deal with noisy and aggressive children if you happen to live on a housing estate? So far I’ve tried reasoning with them and got pelted with ice cream for my troubles. So Shirley has formally complained to Barking & Dagenham Council, and they seemd pretty unconcerned in a real sense. Then [...]
Got back from Cambridge yesterday and hit the hay early, only to be woken up by another car fire outside & Essex fire service in attendance. Barking Council hadn’t got round to removing the first car I reported last week (though I was told the car’s owner had told their insurance company a number of [...]
Roses in bloom, with in the background another apartment block which has been hit by a spate of petty arson on the Gascoigne Estate. Somehow no one has been caught, and luckily no one has been hurt, so far. MP Margaret Hodge know about it, the Essex police know about it, the Essex fire service [...]
Congratulations to West Ham on staying up - see the Romford subway writing on the wall was right! (Funny how you can turn just about anything into a prediction.)
I’m down the Britannia (Billy Bragg’s fav pub in Barking) trying out the new mobile phone camera, hoorah!
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