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...
This Anchor Brewhouse is nothing to do with the Anchor Brewery at Park Street.
What is it with granite plaques? Surely by 1963 someone ought to have learnt, from all the Victorian ones, that they are practicably ill...
There is another identical plaque (not photgraphed) on the other side of the viaduct, to the right.
May 2016: The Islington Tribute reports that the plaque has been replaced, 27 May, with one giving the correct date of habitation (1944-7...
Cato Street Conspiracy discovered here 23 February 1820. Greater London Council
