Victoria Road (Dagenham)

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Victoria Road, currently known as London Borough of Barking & Dagenham Stadium, for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Dagenham, London, England and is the home of the Dagenham & Redbridge FC. It has a capacity of 6078 spectators.

Initiations
The Victoria Road has been a football field since 1917, used by the Sterling Works, whose factory was located next to it. It was not completely closed until the summer of 1955, when Briggs Sports moved to Rush Green Road, and Dagenham FC moved from stadium. During that summer he leveled and re- sown the playing ground, removing the stones from the playing surface, expanded the seats and built terraces. The only cover was a small wooden support, which was steep and narrow and had a few rows of seats on the far side of the ground.

Tribune
The main rostrum was built in the fall of 1955 and was opened on January 7, 1956 by JW Bowers who was the president of the Essex County Football Association. An inaugural party was played there and it was confirmed that the new rostrum would have a space for 800 people. During the summer of 1956 blocks on the side of the stadium and also the men's bathrooms located at the end of Victoria Road were built. In the summer of 1958 the cover on the far side was erected at a cost of £1,400 (a significant sum at that time). The first match with reflectors on Victoria Road was between the Dagenham v Woodford at the FA Youth Cup on September 26, 1957, and the first high-level match was a friendly against Rainham Town FC on March 19, 1958. The attendance record was established in 1967 with the tour of the Reading FC at the FA Cup when 7200 spectators were held at the stadium.

Improvements in the Stadium
Although it was kept regularly, it changed very little until the arrival of the Redbridge Forest in 1990 to participate in the stadium. They paid for a new support that was erected on the corner of the stadium to increase the seating capacity and replaced the wood bench with concrete terraces. These improvements led the stadium to the level required by the Confeerence Premier.

In 1992 Redbridge Forest and Dagenham merged and stadium improvements continued to this day. In 1995, the perimeter wall (which was falling apart) was replaced by a new brick wall. Two years later, the health ward was rebuilt to the end of Victoria Road.

The wooden support was giving in because of its age and therefore the club brought Bill O'Neil from Atcost to design and build a new built-in support. The new is 800 places, which brings the number of seats to more than a thousand, and was first used for the final of the Essex Senior Cup against Canvey Island on 4 August 2001, twelve weeks later the old side was used by