The Newspaper Index is purely a finding aid, and is obviously not exhaustive. It covers items from 1888 through to 2002. I have some additional information on nearly all the stories, but do not hold copies of most of these articles. However, I do have a few copies of some of the earlier items and it is worth enquiring. From 1986 onwards I hold nearly all the items in the form of cuttings.
To access full details readers' are referred to the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham Local History Studies Centre mailto:localstudies@lbbd.gov.uk, or to the British Library Newspapers Department in Colindale, London http://www.bl.uk/collections/newspapers.html.
| Number | Newspaper | Issue | Date | Page | Story | Picture | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | B&DCitizen | 73 | Barking Reach, Barking pedestrianisation, Day Centre | 3 artists impress | FO1990 | ||
| 2 | B&DCitizen | 52 | 1-8 | Council News, wildlife, lighting, swimming pool, A13 | Autumn 1985 | FO1986 | |
| 4 | B&D Citizen | 66 | Schools, libraries, Housing Act, volunteers, Goresbrook | various | FO1989 | ||
| 6 | B&DCitizen | 73 | Children, elderly, recycling, donations: Mayor's appeal | various | FO1990 | ||
| 7 | B&DCitizen | 73 | Allocation of Council homes: new points system | various | FO1990 | ||
| 8 | B&DCitizen | 74 | Poll Tax, schools, rents, parking in Barking CPZ, arts | various | FO1991 | ||
| 9 | B&DCitizen | 74 | Face of tomorrow's Borough: plans for B&D | 4 artists impress | FO1991 | ||
| 10 | ? | Dagenham Town Show: 1986: 35,500 attend this year | CM1986 | ||||
| 11 | B&DP | Borough Local Council Elections | CM1986 | ||||
| 12 | B&D Citizen | Dagenham: gravel extraction at hospital & Town Show | Summer 1986 | FO1986 | |||
| 14 | LBB&D | A blueprint for the Borough: new developments in the... | artists impress | FO1992 | |||
| 15 | ? | Essex Snooker Centre, Broad Street: advert for | LE1986 | ||||
| 16 | ? | Ticky Donovan's Karate Club, Barking Park, Advert | LE1986 | ||||
| 17 | B&DP ? | Brian's Gym, at the rear of the Bull PH, Barking | Advert | LE1986 | |||
| 18 | ? | Eastbury House may be converted into offices | Eastbury House | LH1986 | |||
| 19 | ? | Poop scoop gets the thumbs up: dogs | NSE1986 | ||||
| 3 | B&DCitizen | 55 | 1 | Vicarage Field Shopping Centre Proposals: plans | Summer 1986 | VF1986 | |
| 20 | B&DP | ? | Old Dagenham Village area... changes since flats were built: 1986 | letter from Mrs K. Weeks | DV85/95 | ||
| 1 | Our Churchyard | 3 | 4pp | Newsletter of Dagenham Church: removal of spire, wildlife | May-August 2000 | DV00/05 | |
| 13 | LBB&D | Housing Report: 1991/1992: rents, housing, homeless | Whiting Avenue | FO1992 |
| Number | Newspaper | Issue | Date | Page | Story | Picture | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5243 | BE&IA | 1 | 13/10/1888 | 3 | Opening Match of the Barking Rovers v Forest Gate at Vicarage Grounds | NPF1 | |
| 5242 | BE&IA | 1 | 13/10/1888 | 1 | Advertiser Office at 1 Longbridge Road, paper 1d | NPF1 | |
| 5244 | BE&IA | 2 | 20/10/1888 | 8 | Cost of Advertising per word in the paper | NPF1 | |
| 5246 | BE&IA | 4 | 03/11/1888 | 6 | Isaac Frost of Creekmouth, fined for keeping unlicensed two-wheel carriage | NPF1 | |
| 5245 | BE&IA | 4 | 03/11/1888 | 1 | G.F. Soul baker, Goslings boots adverts | NPF1 | |
| 5247 | BE&IA | 9 | 08/12/1888 | 4 | John Bissel ironmonger, established 30 years 6 North St | NPF1 | |
| 5248 | BE&IA | 10 | 15/12/1888 | 4 | Willett's Bazaar, The Broadway | NPF1 | |
| 5249 | BE&IA | 11 | 22/12/1888 | 6 | General Information on Barking | NPF1 | |
| 5250 | BE&IA | 12 | 29/12/1888 | 4 | N. Hawkins, 31 East St, carpenter, bricklayer & undertaker | NPF1 | |
| 5251 | BE&IA | 14 | 12/01/1889 | 4 | 'The Red House' Clothing Stores, 4 East St | NPF1 | |
| 5252 | BE&IA | 18 | 09/02/1889 | 8 | Stratford Petty Sessions, Emma Brown charged-- assaulting Mary Ann Fry | NPF1 | |
| 5253 | BE&IA | 19 | 16/02/1889 | 8 | Mr Jarleys Waxworks Show in Fords School Room, Dag; 1/6d Admission | NPF1 | |
| 5254 | BE&IA | 24 | 13/04/1889 | 1 | From this date the price of the paper was a halfpenny | NPF1 | |
| 5255 | BE&IA | 24 | 13/04/1889 | 1 | London Tilbury & Southend Railway ( LT&SR ); Easter prices | NPF1 | |
| 5256 | BE&IA | 24 | 13/04/1889 | 4 | Advertisements: men wanted | NPF1 | |
| 5257 | BE&IA | 27 | 04/05/1889 | 1 | T. Pelling, wholesale & retail: cheese, eggs, bacon, Broadway, Heath Street | NPF1 | |
| 5258 | BE&IA | 29 | 11/05/1889 | 1 | W. Holland: The Barking Dairy Farmer, Westbury Dairy, Rippleside | NPF1 | |
| 5259 | BE&IA | 29 | 11/05/1889 | 1 | E. Hollis: baker, pastrycook & confectioner; Cambridge House, East Street | NPF1 | |
| 5260 | BE&IA | 30 | 13/05/1889 | 2 | London Tilbury & Southend Railway ( LT&SR ); revised prices, Bkg, Dag | (Special edition) | NPF1 |
| 5261 | BE&IA | 30 | 13/05/1889 | 1 | BE&IA paper details, and 9 local outlets in Barking | (Special edition) | NPF1 |
| 5262 | BE&IA | 32 | 25/05/1889 | 1 | G. Webb: watch & clockmaker, East Street, Barking | NPF1 | |
| 5263 | BE&IA | 36 | 22/06/1889 | 1 | Devonshire Dairy, The Park, Barking; selling grass milk at 3d per quart | NPF1 | |
| 5270 | BE&IA | 36 | 22/06/1889 | 2 | Barking Rovers FC, AGM at Peto Arms on July 2nd at 8pm | NPF1 | |
| 5264 | BE&IA | 42 | 03/08/1889 | 1 | D. Molenkamps, watchmaker, jeweller & opticians, 32 East Street | NPF1 | |
| 5265 | BE&IA | 42 | 03/08/1889 | 1 | Mr George Lamb, architect & surveyor, Longbridge Road | NPF1 | |
| 5266 | BE&IA | 46 | 31/08/1889 | 3 | New houses to let on the Park, rent 5/6d per week | NPF1 | |
| 5269 | BE&IA | 53 | 19/10/1889 | 1 | G. F. Soul, baker, grocer and tea dealer, 1 Westbury Terrace | NPF1 | |
| 5267 | BE&IA | 53 | 19/10/1889 | 4 | Essex Quarter Sessions: common offences 1888 and 1889 | NPF1 | |
| 5268 | BE&IA | 81 | 03/05/1890 | 2 | LT&SR, cheap half day holiday tickets to Laindon in May and June | NPF1 | |
| 5271 | BE&IA | 172 | 30/01/1892 | 1 | James R. Carwell, importer of musical instruments, 141 St Anns Road | NPF1 | |
| 5272 | BE&IA | 174 | 13/02/1892 | 3 | Man found dead at Creekmouth, Stephen Sawkins of Grove Place, Barking | verdict 'found drowned' | NPF1 |
| 5273 | BE&IA | 175 | 20/02/1892 | 1 | W. Duffield, jam and boiled sweets, 17 Broadway | NPF1 | |
| 5274 | BE&IA | 179 | 19/03/1892 | 3 | First picture in Advertiser of Mr Alderman W.W. Glenny J.P. | of Alderman Glenny | NPF1 |
| 5276 | BE&IA | 188 | 21/05/1892 | 3 | Man found guilty of being drunk in charge of a horse and cart | (Albert Bower fined) | NPF1 |
| 5275 | BE&IA | 188 | 21/05/1892 | 2 | Thomas Lawrence of Fisher St found drowned in Barking Creek | (verdict 'found drowned') | NPF1 |
| 5277 | BE&IA | 193 | 02/07/1892 | 2 | Mr Stahl butcher of Heath Street bitten by dog, destroyed by Prussic Acid | NPF1 | |
| 5278 | BE&IA | 202 | 03/09/1892 | 3 | Cholera in Barking, some 30 or 40 years ago | NPF1 | |
| 5279 | BE&IA | 208 | 15/10/1892 | 2 | site btwn Back Lane & Heath Street for new postal office | (entertainment here now) | NPF1 |
| 5280 | BE&IA | 208 | 15/10/1892 | 7 | Essex Beagles at Romford | NPF1 | |
| 5281 | BE&IA | 211 | 05/11/1892 | 8 | Pictures of adverts for 'Venoya Tea' appear; issue 214 more adverts | Pictures in the adverts | NPF1 |
| 5282 | BE&IA | 218 | 24/12/1892 | 3 | The Tilbury Company ( LT&SR ), passenger figures | NPF1 | |
| 5284 | BE&IA | 221 | 14/01/1893 | 3 | 2nd Class carriages to be abolished on the LT&SR | NPF1 | |
| 5283 | BE&IA | 221 | 14/01/1893 | 2 | Alledged maiming of deer in Epping Forest | NPF1 | |
| 5285 | BE&IA | 226 | 18/02/1893 | 2 | Development of 'The Park' ; church erected in Ripple Road | (Rev Henley Henson) | NPF1 |
| 5286 | BE&IA | 240 | 27/05/1893 | 3 | 35,000 excursionists at Southend; LT&SR and Great Eastern figures | NPF1 | |
| 5287 | BE&IA | 261 | 14/10/1893 | 2 | Heavy rain and a remarkable vivid flash of lightning in Barking | NPF1 | |
| 5288 | BE&IA | 262 | 21/10/1893 | 2 | Telegrams now received & despatched at the Dagenham Post Office | NPF1 | |
| 5289 | BE&IA | 265 | 11/11/1893 | 2 | Early closing for shops in Barking after November 13th | NPF1 | |
| 5290 | BE&IA | 268 | 02/12/1893 | 2 | Steamer aground in Barking Creek near the Crooked Billet PH | NPF1 | |
| 5291 | BE&IA | 270 | 16/12/1893 | 2 | New Baptist Tabernacle opening ceromony, total cost £2,500 | NPF1 | |
| 5293 | BE&IA | 275 | 20/01/1894 | 2 | New gates for the level crossing at East Street | NPF1 | |
| 5292 | BE&IA | 275 | 20/01/1894 | 2 | J.W. Garland, East Street, good and cheap light, paraffin prices | NPF1 | |
| 5296 | BE&IA | 284 | 24/02/1894 | 2 | 2nd picture in paper: Conservative & Unionist Candidate | Alfred Money Wigram | NPF1 |
| 5295 | BE&IA | 280 | 24/02/1894 | 3 | Loss of Barking Fishing Vessels in the North Sea on the 10th and 11th | NPF1 | |
| 5294 | BE&IA | 280 | 24/02/1894 | 2 | Child desertion….. 2 children found on Park Estate starving | NPF1 | |
| 5297 | BE&IA | 289 | 28/04/1894 | 2 | Barking Gas Company 'penny in the slot meters' cast iron pipes | NPF1 | |
| 5298 | BE&IA | 294 | 02/06/1894 | 2 | Flock of lambs on the New Road marsh… belonging to Mr Bowyer East St | NPF1 | |
| 5299 | BE&IA | 297 | 23/06/1894 | 3 | Men sheep stealing at Barking from Joseph Hart of Barking | (penal servitude sentence) | NPF1 |
| 5300 | BE&IA | 305 | 18/08/1894 | 2 | Types of school: figures for Barking by Herbert Henley Henson | NPF1 | |
| 5301 | BE&IA | 309 | 15/09/1894 | 2 | Barking boy John Brand sentenced to the birch at Stratford, goat stealing | NPF1 | |
| 5302 | BE&IA | 318 | 17/11/1894 | 2 | Sangers Circus at Barking, large crowds! | NPF1 | |
| 5353 | BE&IA | 02/02/1895 | 2 | Wand, Fire Insurance agent, 27 Church Road, Barking | small advert | LF | |
| 5352 | BE&IA | 02/02/1895 | 2 | W. Langley, Thatched House, Rippleside now supplying home-fed pork | small advert | LF | |
| 5351 | BE&IA | 02/02/1895 | 2 | Clarks Stores, Barking… now selling finest teas | small advert | LF | |
| 5350 | BE&IA | 02/02/1895 | 2 | Baptist Tabernacle, Linton Road; pastor D.H. Moore | small advert | LF | |
| 5348 | BE&IA | 02/02/1895 | 2 | Captain Perry's account of stopping Dagenham Breach | (full story) | LF | |
| 5349 | BE&IA | 02/02/1895 | 2 | Houses & land for sale, various barking regions | (full story) | LF | |
| 5303 | BE&IA | 331 | 16/02/1895 | 3 | Roding blocked up at Barking, ice carried down the river, some flooding | NPF1 | |
| 5304 | BE&IA | 336 | 23/03/1895 | 3 | More gaslight for the Broadway….. Lamp on 3 or 4 steps to be erected | NPF1 | |
| 5305 | BE&IA | 340 | 20/04/1895 | 1 | Barking couple drunk & neglecting their children, of 6 Morgans Court | (3 months hard labour) | NPF1 |
| 5306 | BE&IA | 351 | 06/07/1895 | 2 | New born child found dead in Roding close to New Road bridge | NPF1 | |
| 5307 | BE&IA | 351 | 06/07/1895 | 4 | Three people drowned as sailing boat capsizes in in Dagenham Gulf | (verdict: accidental death) | NPF1 |
| 5308 | BE&IA | 362 | 21/09/1895 | 3 | Anachist at Barking: Comrade Leggett talks at the lamps to large crowd | NPF1 | |
| 5309 | BE&IA | 369 | 09/11/1895 | 3 | Suicide of Barking lamplighter found dead on the LT&SR, Thomas Charles | (of East Street) | NPF1 |
| 5311 | BE&IA | 383 | 15/02/1896 | 2 | Beckton Road pratically complete | NPF1 | |
| 5312 | BE&IA | 383 | 15/02/1896 | 3 | Young woman drowned in the River Roding | NPF1 | |
| 5310 | BE&IA | 383 | 15/02/1896 | 2 | Construction of River Road……. Completed by the end of the year | NPF1 | |
| 5313 | BE&IA | 386 | 08/03/1896 | 3 | Construction of River Road……. Completed by the end of the year | NPF1 | |
| 5356 | BE&IA | 28/03/1896 | 3 | Open Air meet in the Broadway, supporting Progressive candidates | (full story of meeting) | LF | |
| 5355 | BE&IA | 28/03/1896 | 3 | Barking Burial Board meeting, number of interrments | (full story of meeting) | LF | |
| 5354 | BE&IA | 28/03/1896 | 3 | Beckton Road, River Road, Recreation Ground (Barking Park) | (full story of meeting) | LF | |
| 5357 | BE&IA | 28/03/1896 | 3 | Councillor Marriot at Rippleside, new town proposals forwarded | (full story of meeting) | LF | |
| 5358 | BE&IA | 28/03/1896 | 3 | Brutal Assault at Barking; John Welsh charge with assault | (2 months hard labour) | LF | |
| 5314 | BE&IA | 411 | 29/08/1896 | 2 | Typhoid epidemic at Barking | NPF1 | |
| 5366 | B&E Std | 16/10/1896 | 3 | Should the inhabitable portion of Eastbury House be let? | (full story) | LF | |
| 5363 | B&E Std | 16/10/1896 | 2 | Price of horse fodder, i.e.: oats, clover, hay & straw | (full story) | LF | |
| 5364 | B&E Std | 16/10/1896 | 2 | Continuation of Coverdale & other roads into Fisher Street | (full story) | LF | |
| 5368 | B&E Std | 16/10/1896 | 3 | Examination of the sewers in Barking Town, leakage, ventilation etc | (full story) | LF | |
| 5362 | B&E Std | 16/10/1896 | 2 | Axe Street Burial Ground…. Closure | (full story) | LF | |
| 5365 | B&E Std | 16/10/1896 | 2 | Axe Street notices served on Nos 110-140 to supply WC's with water | (full story) | LF | |
| 5361 | B&E Std | 16/10/1896 | 2 | Sewering of 'Over-the-Gates' | (small item) | LF | |
| 5360 | B&E Std | 16/10/1896 | 2 | The Wharfkeeper resigns… Mr H. White | (full story) | LF | |
| 5359 | B&E Std | 16/10/1896 | 2 | Beckton Road… narrowed down | (full story of meeting) | LF | |
| 5367 | B&E Std | 16/10/1896 | 3 | Health Report of the region; also birth death rates | (full story) | LF | |
| 5315 | BE&IA | 411 | 31/10/1896 | 2 | Man buried alive! In grave at Barking Cemetry… gravedigger dies | (accidental death) | NPF1 |
| 5370 | B&E Std | 23/07/1897 | 7 | Barking to be made dust shoot for London & East Ham sewage | (full story) | LF | |
| 5371 | B&E Std | 23/07/1897 | 7 | Horse pulling brick cart fell down in Heath Street, of Mr G.W. Bell | (full story) | LF | |
| 5369 | B&E Std | 23/07/1897 | 7 | Tolls on barges at the town wharf for unloading | (full story) | LF | |
| 5372 | B&E Std | 23/07/1897 | 7 | LT&SR; Regualtion of their Passenger Traffic: tickets, smoking etc | (full story) | LF | |
| 5316 | BE&IA | 463 | 27/08/1897 | 2 | Barking lighting improvement: relative costs of gas, oil & electric | (full story) | NPF1 |
| 5317 | BE&IA | 469 | 09/10/1897 | 2 | County Health Report; shows number of infectious diseases | (1896, 1897) | NPF1 |
| 5318 | BE&IA | 477 | 04/12/1897 | 3 | High Tide in Barking, flooding in Town Quay, Fisher Street | NPF1 | |
| 5319 | BE&IA | 492 | 19/03/1898 | 3 | Barking Train Fares charged by the LT&SR from company sheets | NPF1 | |
| 5320 | BE&IA | 492 | 19/03/1898 | 3 | Red Lion PH demolition; the inn is to be rebuilt | NPF1 | |
| 5321 | BE&IA | 502 | 23/05/1898 | 2 | Electric Light for Barking… application granted to borrow money for | NPF1 | |
| 5322 | BE&IA | 506 | 02/07/1898 | 3 | Highway Robbery at Dagenham…. men indicted & sentenced | NPF1 | |
| 5323 | BE&IA | 508 | 16/07/1898 | 2 | Anthrax at Barking for third year running, has occurred on marsh | NPF1 | |
| 5324 | BE&IA | 509 | 23/07/1898 | 3 | New steam fire engine for Barking; manual one has lasted 20 years | NPF1 | |
| 5325 | BE&IA | 510 | 30/07/1898 | 3 | Sunday morning postal deliveries should be done away with | NPF1 | |
| 5328 | BE&IA | 511 | 08/08/1898 | 2 | E.W. Barnett, cycle & cycle fitting, 33 & 35 Wakering Road | (also Nickel plater, enameller) | NPF1 |
| 5327 | BE&IA | 511 | 08/08/1898 | 2 | Joseph Hart, grazier & butcher; Broadway… home killed meats | NPF1 | |
| 5326 | BE&IA | 511 | 08/08/1898 | 2 | Clarks Stores, Barking: fresh butter 1/1d; eggs 12 for 1/- | NPF1 | |
| 5329 | BE&IA | 513 | 20/08/1898 | 2 | S.A. Bowyer, family butcher, East Street | NPF1 | |
| 5330 | BE&IA | 513 | 20/08/1898 | 2 | Essex Weekly News series of 5 papers (Chelmsford), ad prices | NPF1 | |
| 5331 | BE&IA | 514 | 27/08/1898 | 2 | Clarks Stores, Barking: food prices: cornbeef, salmon, pineapple | NPF1 | |
| 5373 | B&E Std | 02/09/1898 | 5 | Barking & Beckton Light Railways Order: Application for | (full story) | LF | |
| 5378 | B&E Std | 02/09/1898 | 5 | Arthur Rogers of 11 The Tenements, Hart Street, drunk & disorderly | (fined) | LF | |
| 5379 | B&E Std | 02/09/1898 | 5 | Owen Watson, drunk in charge of horse and van in East Street | (fined) | LF | |
| 5380 | B&E Std | 02/09/1898 | 5 | Accident at East Street level crossing: Ruth Perry knocked down by gate | (of Gibbards Cottage, Upney) | LF | |
| 5381 | B&E Std | 02/09/1898 | 5 | Beacontree Heath labourer David King assaults George Overall | (case dismissed) | LF | |
| 5382 | B&E Std | 02/09/1898 | 5 | Alice Mills filed worker, drunk & incapable in Chadwell Heath | (full story) | LF | |
| 5374 | B&E Std | 02/09/1898 | 5 | Mr Love, East Street; tailor & general outfitter, opposite the Bank | advert | LF | |
| 5377 | B&E Std | 02/09/1898 | 5 | Joseph Phillips found drunk in charge of horse & cart in North Street | (fined; of Hatfield Cottage) | LF | |
| 5375 | B&E Std | 02/09/1898 | 5 | Sudden Death of Polish Jew's baby.. Inquiry into | (full story) | LF | |
| 5376 | B&E Std | 02/09/1898 | 5 | Maud Moore of Tanner Street assualts Mrs Sarah Newell neighbour | (fined) | LF | |
| 5332 | BE&IA | 522 | 29/10/1898 | 2 | Clarks Stores, Barking: food prices: true Ceylon tea in lead pkts | NPF1 | |
| 5333 | BE&IA | 524 | 12/11/1898 | 2 | Technical Schools, East Street: violin classes Monday evenings | NPF1 | |
| 5383 | B&E Std | 18/11/1898 | 5 | Alfred Butler of R. White's Court Barking injurred at Beckton Gas | (full story) | LF | |
| 5384 | B&E Std | 18/11/1898 | 5 | Arthur Rogers of 11 The Tenements, Hart Street, drunk & disorderly | (fined) | LF | |
| 5334 | BE&IA | 525 | 19/11/1898 | 3 | Pellings Stores, Broadway (opp Town Hall); food prices | NPF1 | |
| 5335 | BE&IA | 525 | 19/11/1898 | 2 | Barking Town Improvements: In Parliament Session 1899 | NPF1 | |
| 5336 | BE&IA | 528 | 10/12/1898 | 3 | The Bon Marche, 9 Heath Street ( W. Mothersole ); milliner | NPF1 | |
| 5385 | B&E Std | 16/12/1898 | 7 | Visions of Electra by a Barking man of the 20th Centruy | (full story, Ripple Road) | LF | |
| 5337 | BE&IA | 530 | 24/12/1898 | 2 | Clarks Stores: prices of spirits, sherry, port, brandy, rum, whiskey | NPF1 | |
| 5338 | BE&IA | 536 | 04/02/1899 | 1 | New Bye-law of the ECC, to make vehicles carry lights after dark | NPF1 | |
| 5339 | BE&IA | 540 | 04/03/1899 | 3 | Barking Town Improvement Bill Rejected: Against 2,610: For 291 | (some details here) | NPF1 |
| 5340 | BE&IA | 546 | 15/04/1899 | 2 | Carter, 59 & 61 Axe Street, hairdresser & tobbacconist | (shag from 3d per ounze) | NPF1 |
| 5341 | BE&IA | 553 | 03/06/1899 | 2 | Shops occupying capital business position in East Street | NPF1 | |
| 5342 | BE&IA | 556 | 24/06/1899 | 1 | Jonas Smith & Company, Roding Wharf, timber merchants | NPF1 | |
| 5344 | BE&IA | 558 | 08/07/1899 | 2 | Guy Withers, 48 North Street, house & estate agent | NPF1 | |
| 5343 | BE&IA | 558 | 08/07/1899 | 1 | Abduction Case In Barking… Man (27) abducts young woman (16) | ( 14 Arthur Cottages ) | NPF1 |
| 5345 | BE&IA | 559 | 15/07/1899 | 2 | North Cottages, North Street, let at weekly rentals (£46.16s. P.A.)< |