Midsummer Music

   Barking & Dagenham London   

About   Barking & Dagenham London  where our live musicians perform

   Covering Party Bands, String Quartets, Barn Dance / Ceilidh and Jazz   

Towns, cities and regions, such as   Barking & Dagenham London  have an influence on the style of music, whether it is the 'English Countryside' feel of Vaughan Williams, the strength of Elgar's Victorian Malvern, or the skirl of Northumbrian Pipe tune.

About  Barking & Dagenham London   

Dagenham is first mentioned in a charter of Barking Abbey dating from 687 AD. The first Dagenham was almost certainly just a small farmstead, the ham or farm of a man called Daecca. For over 500 years after this the settlement was evidently too small to be mentioned in records. Once the centre of Dagenham. The village was a busy area where farm workers and their families lived. There were several shops, four inns and a blacksmith's forge. Surrounding the village was countryside and farmland. In 1205 Dagenham was large enough to have a chaplain and the Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul was probably built at a similar time. For centuries the church was central to the local community and most people went to church. The farm workers and their families would come here to pray for fair weather and good harvests. Here too they would meet and socialise with their friends. Even today the church contains clues about important people who have lived in Dagenham.

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