Erection date: 17/10/2011
Gordon Pirie, 1931 - 1991, South London Harriers and Coulsdon resident, held 5 world records including the 4 x 1500m relay with local athlete Ralph Dunkley. Gordon also won 5000m Olympic silver, Melbourne 1956.
The Bourne Society
CR5, Brighton Road, 194, Comrades of the Great War Club
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Gordon Pirie
Athletics club. It was formed at a meeting in the Vivian Hotel in Peckham Rye...
Former lecturer and amateur athlete. Birth year approximate. He ran with Gord...
Athlete. Born Douglas Alastair Gordon Pirie at 123 Beckett Street, Leeds. BBC...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Gordon Pirie
It takes its name from the streams that follow the lines of the A22 and A23 r...
Note the use of London Underground’s own typeface, Johnston Sans.
We thank our colleague Alan Patient for providing the photographs of the plaques.
Sir Joseph William Bazalgette, 1819 - 1891, civil engineer, lived here. Greater London Council
Carved on the wall to the right of the front door: "William Goodenough House, 1957 Goodenough College"
In April 2011 we noticed that the building holding this plaque had changed so we re-photographed it.
