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Central Park Ilford
Incorporates remaining heathland
Chase Road
Travellers’ settlement and grazing horses
Dagenham Road
Eastbrook Farm.
Demolished May 1931. Thatched timber building. Built of rushes and paster daub.
campus of Barking College in the area
of the old hamlet of Rush Green. Barking College, Facing the street, the former
buildings of the College of Further Education. 1961 by H. Conolly, Essex County
Architect. A three-story reinforced concrete-framed teaching block with
slightly recessed ground floor. Single-storey range, originally for workshops.
Extending to the rear over a spacious campus are buildings of several later
phases. Bramley Block of 2002-3 by Perkins Ogden Architects with
Hampshire County Architects; The whole is tied
together by hard landscaping by Hyland Edgar Driver.
Farmhouse Tavern
Behind it two White Hart
Lakes for fishing and landscaped mound
Lakes from abandoned gravel
pits
North west field is Fels’
Field and derelict Fel’s Farmhouse on Dagenham Road.
Bell House at a bend in the road, early c18, but
remodelled and stuccoed. Distinctly pretty with the eponymous bell on the roof
ridge: was it added when it was a farmhouse or when it was a school?
Ilford Park Cemetery became
Eastbrook End Cemetery
London City Mission
Farmhouse Tavern , originally
Eastbrook Grove House, c. 1840 with early c20 additions at the end.
Eastbrook End
Around Dagenham Road and Chase Road, rough grassland gravel pits
Eastbrookend Country Park, nearly 350
acres of once derelict land, reclaimed since the early 1990s. The park is
contiguous with the featureless Central Park and the Chase Nature Reserve. Land had been sand and gravel quarry.
Mosaic of habitats
Millennium Centre, 2000, by Penoyre & Prasad. A showcase for
energy efficient design powered by light and wind. Timber-clad with metal roofs
swept up at the upper floor and down low over the exhibition centre. Between
the two blocks is an off-centre, windowless, stair tower.
Made of recycled waste including car screens
Rhone Poulenc factory.major sponsor of the Chase.
Cottage, thatched timber building there in
the 1930s
Eastbrook Grove,
Copse of oaks but gravel
extraction has led to lack of water
Greenwood Avenue
Hardie Road
Macdonald Avenue
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