Cork's connection to the opening of Ford plant in Dagenham [video]

When Ford opened a UK plant in Dagenham in 1931, so many men from Leeside got work in the Essex town that it became known as ’Little Cork’. Cork balladeer Jimmy Crowley remembers his family links to it.

The position of Henry Ford within the Cork cosmos is huge: almost every family is in some way connected with his motor company.

I spent half my youth at my Auntie Nora and Uncle Paddy’s cottage, in the woods at Ravensdale between the chapel and the ‘New’ (Carrigaline) Road.