Libraries 

• A Miscellany of Marks Gate
• A Township Complete in Itself (History of the Becontree Housing Estate)
• Barking and Dagenham Buildings Past and Present
• Barking Pubs Past and Present
• Brief History of Barking and Dagenham
• Dagenham and Rainham Past
• Dagenham Murder: The Brutal Killing of PC George Clark 1846
• Dagenham Pubs Past and Present
• D-Day Remembered
• Eastbury Manor House Guide
• Fanshawe Portraits
• First in Essex (History of the Library Service)
• Footprints in Time
• Mr Frogley's Barking: a 1st Selection
• More of Mr Frogley's Barking: a 2nd Selection
• More Views of Old Barking and Dagenham
• On the Home Front
• On the Move (Transport in Barking and Dagenham)
• One Hundred Years of Libraries in Barking
• Recording the Past (Selection of Articles by Jim Howson)
• Residents and Visitors
• Still More of Mr Frogley's Barking: a 3rd Selection
• Valence House Guide
• Victoria County History: Barking and Ilford
• Victoria County History: Dagenham
• We will remember
• You've never had it so good - Dagenham in the 1950s

A  selection of local views on postcards are also available. Please see the Publications and Postcard order form for the titles available.  ( Please note there are limited copies of some postcards)

To order any postcards email libraries@lbbd.gov.uk or use the list as an order form indicating which postcards you want and the number of copies. This can be emailed to libraries@lbbd.gov.uk or posted to the address on the form.

We will contact you, usually by email to advise you of the total cost of your order including postage (normally 2nd class) and packing.

Don't forget to provide a mailing address. On receipt of payment the postcards will be sent out with an invoice.

For the benefit of overseas customers, our administration prefers to deal in pounds sterling, but please ask if this is not convenient.

Packs of postcards, black and white (10 postcards) = £1
Packs of postcards, colour (10 postcards) = £1.50
Prints (5 prints) = £2
Greetings cards (2 cards) = 50p

£2.20 each

Special offer
Buy 3 old Ordnance Survey maps for £5.

Facsimiles of old Ordnance Survey maps of the area published by Alan Godfrey Maps can be purchased at all borough libraries and at Valence House Museum.

All titles include an essay on the history of the area and extracts from a contemporary directory.

A catalogue may be requested from the Alan Godfrey Maps website. Other areas of the country are also published.

The Maps are highly detailed, taken from the 1/2,500 plans and reprinted at about 14 inches to the mile.

They cover towns in great detail, showing individual houses, railway tracks, factories, churches, mills, canals, tramways and even minutiae such as dockside cranes, fountains, signal posts, pathways, sheds and wells.

Local titles currently available

• Barking (Upney) 1939
• Beckton 1914 (with historical notes by Tony Clifford)
• Becontree Heath and Valence House 1914
• Chadwell Heath 1914
• Creekmouth 1894
• Creekmouth 1914
• Dagenham 1915
• East Ham and Barking 1894
• Parsloes 1915
• Rush Green 1914
• Upney 1915

To order any of these publications, email libraries@lbbd.gov.uk or complete the order form below indicating which titles you want and the number of copies.

We will contact you, usually by email to advise you of the total cost of your order including postage (normally 2nd class) and packing.

Don't forget to provide a mailing address. On receipt of payment the publications will be sent out with an invoice.

For the benefit of overseas customers, our administration prefers to deal in pounds sterling, but please ask if this is not convenient.

Our publications are also available for purchase at all libraries and at the Archives and Local Studies Centre.

Order form - Word
Order form - PDF