From the Barking and Dagenham Council website:
www.barking-dagenham.gov.uk/8-leisure-envir/park-country/parks/parks-main.cfm?ID=21Parks in Barking and Dagenham.
Quaker Burial Ground.
Harts Lane / North Street.
Barking.
A walled, flat area between housing and Northern Relief Road.
Burial place of prison reformer, Elizabeth Fry.
Quaker Burial Ground is a small area with a size of 1720.30 square meters.
Leisure facilities in this park: Wildlife
I also found this interesting article:
Memorial of prison reformer restored
Press Release
08/10/2003
One of England's most famous humanitarian figures has had her memory resurrected with a new memorial in Barking.
Prison reformer, Elizabeth Fry, selected to feature on the Bank of England's £5 note in 2002, has had her resting place restored at the former Society of Friends burial ground off Whiting Avenue.
The new marble plinth was officially unveiled by Cemeteries Manager, Damien Parker, Executive Member for Cemeteries, Jeff Porter and Head of Leisure Allan Aubrey.
Fry who lived from 1780 - 1845, was famous mainly for her endeavours to improve conditions for women in London's notorious Newgate Prison.
Dedicating her life to promoting penal reform, she went on to become Europe's principal campaigner for inmates' rights.
Welcoming the memorial, Cllr Porter said: "It is only fitting that such a prestigious philanthropist as Elizabeth Fry, should have a memorial to fit her reputation.
"This new memorial is a reminder of how individuals can make a real difference to the lives of a great many other people and we hope that local people and visitors to the Borough will be inspired by this."
In the 1980s the Friends Meeting House at 100 North Street, Barking, became a Sikh Gurdwara and the burial ground opposite, belonging to the meeting house, was made into a public garden.
At that time the headstones commemorating Fry and others buried within the site were relocated, by the Society of Friends (Quakers), to the Wanstead Meeting House, Burial ground.
Born on 21 May 1780 in Norwich to a Quaker banking family, the young Elizabeth Gurney married Joseph Fry of Plashet House in East Ham in 1800.
She was acknowledged as an approved Quaker minister by the Barking Monthly Meeting in 1811.
She died on 12 October 1845, age 65 and was buried in the Quaker burial ground which was located off Whiting Avenue.
www.lbbd.gov.uk/2-press-release/press-release-menu.cfm?item_code=1232I know none of this is related to the paranormal but at least we can get to know about the area.
