Greatfield park history

• Barking Urban District Council purchased the land from Movers Farm for £330 in the early 1920s, and the park was established.

• The park first opened its doors in 1926. The park was created as part of the Greatfield housing estate's constructionafter World War I.

• The park's original drawings (from 1921) indicate a simple layout with a boundary path and shrub borders encircling a big grassed space. It was known as Movers Lane Playing Fields or Greatfield Recreation Grounds at the time, and it had three football fields. The existing route system, trees, and flowerbeds were added later.

• The park, however, was nevertheless designed in the conventional Victorian manner, with a broad encircling carriage road bordered by shrub beds and decorative gardens within. This is the design that is still in use today.