In 1969 Brian Lingham then the branch librarian at the Harold Hill Library

wrote a booklet entitled

the history of

HAROLD HILL

and

NOAK HILL

The Friends have recently been in touch with Brian and he has generously donated the copyright of his book to the Friends of Dagnam Park. Sadly it has long been out of print, it contains so much early information on the area that we intend to update and reprint it, any profits going to the Friends. In the mean time the book is being made available on the website in it's entirety. You can copy and paste this if you prefer to read it off screen. It was scanned from the original text using Optical Character Recognition software which meant that there were many typographical errors.

I am extremely grateful to the local historian, Don Tait for reading the whole document and correcting a large number of these errors as well as suggesting other revisions which have been incorporated.

Any amendments to the original are not the responsibility of Brian Lingham.