Thames Life

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We had the pleasure of speaking to Vic Stevens, long-time resident of Barking and Dagenham north of the A13. He reflects on a borough shaped by rehousing, movement, and continual reinvention since the Becontree Estate era. Through personal experience and local memory, he traces shifting housing, green spaces, and community life across decades of change.

Exploring Barking and Dagenham’s evolving identity, Vic offers an intimate view of a place marked by disruption, adaptation, and the fragile threads of belonging that still persist beneath it all.