Tranquility

There's nothing quite so tranquil and peaceful as a Quaker burial ground, and when I arrived home early from work the graves were lit by the low sun at noon. All sleeping peacefully, there's much of industrial England represented here - the Tangye family of Birmingham, the Parker's more recently, and even going back to the Darby's of Coalbrookedale, whom many credit with starting the industrial revolution. And each one has an identical marker, although many have no headstone at all. Equal in life so equal in death. Almost three hundred Quakers are buried in this little plot of land, side by side and head to toe.