Editing Dagenham (section)

== Culture ==
[[Valence House Museum|Valence House]], in Becontree Avenue, is the only surviving of the five manor houses of Dagenham.<ref>[http://www.lbbd.gov.uk/museumsandheritage/valencehousemuseum/pages/home.aspx Valence House museum] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722073902/http://www.lbbd.gov.uk/museumsandheritage/valencehousemuseum/pages/home.aspx |date=22 July 2012 }}. lbbd.gov.uk</ref>
Dating back to the 13th century, it is sited in parkland and there is a moat around part of it. Valence House is the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham's local history museum, displaying artifacts and archives that tell the story of the lives of the people of Barking and Dagenham. The collection also includes portraits, family papers and other mementos of the Fanshawe family, who occupied [[Parsloes Manor]], since demolished, from the sixteenth century.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080904220540/http://www.barking-dagenham.gov.uk/4-heritage/local-history/fanshawe-family.html The Fanshawe Family, London Borough of Barking and Dagenham], barking-dagenham.gov.uk</ref>
The Fanshawe collection is "one of the best collections of gentry portraits in the country and is of international importance", according to Valence House.<ref name=b1>[[Elizabeth Ogborne]], [https://archive.org/details/b22009061/page/61 The History of Essex: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time], Printed for the Proprietors by R.H. Kelham, London, 1814, p. 61.</ref>
Among members of the Fanshawe family was the diplomat [[Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet]], whose portrait is at Valence House. Nine successive members of the Fanshawe family served as [[Remembrancer]] to the Crown, following Henry Fanshawe's appointment to the position by [[Queen Elizabeth I]] in 1566. The appointment made possible the family's rise to prominence.

In the post town of Romford and the pre-1965 borough of Dagenham, on the corner of Whalebone Lane and the Eastern Avenue, diagonally opposite the [[Moby-Dick]] public house, is the site of Marks Manor House, a large 15th-century moated building demolished in the early 19th century. During [[World War II]] the adjoining fields were used by the [[Royal Artillery]] for an anti-aircraft battery; later a [[prisoner-of-war camp]] for Germans was erected there. Further south down Whalebone Lane on the corner of the High Road is the Tollgate pub. This stands on the site of the [[milestone]] which marked the {{convert|10|mi|km|spell=in}} limit from the [[City of London]] and the [[Turnpike trust|turnpike]] [[toll-gate]].

[[Dagenham Roundhouse|The Roundhouse]] public house on the junction of Porters Avenue and Lodge Avenue (in the pre-1965 borough of Barking) became eastern Greater London's premier rock-music venue between 1969 and 1975, incorporating the ''Village Blues Club''. Notable performers at the pub included [[Jethro Tull (band)|Jethro Tull]], [[Supertramp]], [[Queen (band)|Queen]], [[Pink Floyd]], [[Eric Clapton]], [[Status Quo (band)|Status Quo]], and [[Led Zeppelin]] (on 5 April 1969). The [[Eastbrook, Dagenham|Eastbrook]] is a [[listed building|Grade II* listed]] pub.<ref name=EnglishHeritage>{{NHLE|desc=Eastbrook public house|num=1393600|access-date=19 April 2014}}</ref> Given the influence of U.S. blues on the English musicians who played at the Roundhouse, journalist [[Nik Cohn]] called the London of the late 1960s and early 1970s the "Dagenham Delta".<ref>James Wood. "Good Times, Bad Times: The making and unmaking of Led Zeppelin." ''The New Yorker''. Jan. 31, 2022. Access-date = 2022-4-2</ref>

===Media===
The ''[[Barking & Dagenham Post]]'' is printed weekly and also published online.