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...
Booth moved his meetings which had begun in the summer in a tent inside as the winter approached. The building was known as the Assembly...
Built in 1730 this chapel provided the architectural model for many New England churches.
Mackintosh Architecture refers to a number of local projects which Mackintosh was involved with at this time. The 'Mystery House' one did...
Bedford College for Women University of London, founded here in 1849 by Elizabeth Jesser Reid.
There are 3 plaques, all on the north face of this building, to the right of the entrance shown in the photograph.
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