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...
Bill Wallis is described on the plaque as 'ARP Stretcher Bearer'. Which we take as a prompt to provide a link to the great Stretcher Rail...
James Hadley Chase, 1906 - 1985, author, was born here with the name René Brabazon Raymond. Ealing Civic Society
The plaques are on the stone pillars either side of the entrance; plaque 1 to the left in our photo and plaque 2 to the right. The stran...
Site of the Parsonage of St Nicholas Acons where scientific life assurance began in 1762. The Corporation of the City of London
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