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Becontree history
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The estate is named after the ancient Becontree Hundred, which historically covered the area. The name is Old English and means ‘tree of a man named Beohha’ The majority of the estate was in the parish of Dagenham and the whole estate is in the post town, and the two names are used interchangeably.
Building of the estate
Becontree was developed between 1921 and 1935 as a large cottage estate of around 26,000 homes. It was intended to be “homes fit for heroes” for World War I veterans. The construction was an enormous civil engineering project. With a population of 115,652, it was the largest public housing development in the world.
First tenants
The LCC built the estate to rehouse people from London’s East End, who were displaced by slum clearance. The first residents were relatively prosperous working-class families, such as factory workers and busmen. Privet hedges were planted along the pavements at the end of every front garden.
Services
All houses were supplied with gas by the Gas Light and Coke Company; most had gas lighting and some fitted with electric lighting. Electricity was supplied by the County of London Electric Supply Company in Dagenham and the electricity services of Barking and Ilford municipal corporations in those sections. All gas lighting was converted to electricity in 1955.
Economic development
Initially the estate had no industrial and very little commercial development planned to support the population. Residents commuted to Inner London for work, until the May & Baker and Ford Dagenham sites opened nearby.
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