Fanny Craddock, 1919 - 1994. On this site until 1930 stood a house called "Apthorp", birthplace of the famous TV cookery expert Fanny Craddock, born Phyllis Pechey.
Waltham Forest Heritage
The plaque gives Fanny one too many "D"s.
E11, Fairlop Road, Fairwood Court
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Fanny Cradock
An early TV cook. Born at the site of the plaque in Apthorp, as Phyllis Pech...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Fanny Cradock
Formed in 1965 from the joining of Chingford, Leyton and Walthamstow.
When we first spotted this plaque it was brass and quite brief. Sometime around 2009 it was replaced with the classy inscribed stone plaq...
The creators of this plaque have copied the two paragraphs from the original plaque and topped and tailed it with information about the b...
Joyce Grenfell, 1910 - 1979, entertainer and writer, lived here in flat no.8, 1957 - 1979. English Heritage
Field Marshal Viscount Gort VC, 1886 - 1946, Commander in Chief at Dunkirk, lived here, 1920 - 1926. English Heritage
The stone with the 'W', or 'M', looks not to have been created as part of this design. "W' for well?
