1/ Barking Creek, August 1871 (Discovery of Skeletons)
Workers at the City of London Gas Works near Barking Creek have dug up adult human skeletons from the foreshore of the Thames, below high watermark. The remains, all well preserved, look to have been hastily buried near each other. A medical man who studied them suggests they have been buried at least fifty years. Just below the opening made for the Dagenham Dock are some remains of an ancient forest, which at one time occupied the river bed. The root’s and trunks are disclosed at the low spring tides. (Who are they?)
2/ Barking Child Murder, January 1899
3/ Barking, February 1899
4/ River Thames Drownings, near Barking, February 1899 (Rose Hill)
