Erection date: 2/7/1949
{On a plaque below a picture of a gipsy caravan:}
Gipsy Rodney Smith, who preached the gospel of christ to thousands on five continents for seventy years, was born here on 31st March 1860 and called home journeying to America on 4 August 1947, what hath god wraught.
IG8, Woodford New Road, Mill Plain, Epping Forest
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Rodney Smith
Evangelist. Born in a gipsy tent in Epping Forest, Wanstead. He began to hawk...
Annie Besant, 1847 - 1933, social reformer, lived here in 1874. London County Council
Dr. John Fry, 1922 - 1944, devoted family doctor and world renowned researcher and writer. G.P. Research Club
The 1802 stone has clearly been saved from the ruin, and the 1952 plaque modelled on it. Nicely done. The close-up picture was taken fr...
Diamond Geezer says this is the only place in London where drivers have to pay a specific toll.
The first set of plaques erected for these TV stars were replaced with this set, at the riverfront.
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