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This plaque is on the Lloyds TSB bank on the corner of Main Road and Balgores Lane (March 2000).  It commemorates the landscape gardener Humphrey Repton, who lived in a cottage on this site from 1783 until his death in 1818.1
This plaque is on the Lloyds TSB bank on the corner of Main Road and Balgores Lane (March 2000).  It commemorates the landscape gardener Humphrey Repton, who lived in a cottage on this site from 1783 until his death in 1818.1

The plaque was unveiled on 19th April 1969 by Miss Dorothy Stroud, author of a biography on Repton.2

Display a map showing the location from which this photograph was taken.

1 Romford Record, No. 2 (1969), page 19.
2 Ibid., page 17.
 

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