When people ask where I live I always seem to feel the need to justify why I live in Barking. (I'm holding back the urge to write the reason).
It's a difficult town to describe to someone who has never heard of it. Once home to Billy Bragg; now the BNP. It's a hard place where people have felt the knocks of life. The town centre is full of cheap shops - 99p, Cash Converters, pawnbrokers, pie and mash.
But it can be beautiful on days like these.
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Alas it lacks the splendour of Nottinghamshire!
Oh and happy new year too!
it looks charming. Whats the matter with pie and mash. Rather - what is pie and mash? Is that shepards pie and mashed tators?
Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand:
Come and see my shining castle built upon the sand!
I think Barking ought to have retained some of the decent shopping places it once had - The Pie & Mash shop is usually always closed now. I had a chat with the pieman about a year ago and he was complaining about the fake-chicken shops taking over.
Olives - nothing wrong with pie and mash. Shepherd's pie is topped with mashed potato. These pies are pastry with, traditionally, a meat filling accompanied by mash and possibly liquer. It's the jellied and stewed eels that put me off. For pics: Manzes
Rehan - I HATE the smell of the chicken places. It overwhelms you as you wait for the bus opposite the station. Nasty, nasty places.
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