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...
The steps are rather grand for a public park and look to us as if left over from a now-demolished substantial building (factory, head off...
We have numbered the foundation stones from left to right.
We think the last line of the plaque means that Kougioumtzis is the sculptor of the Spirit of the Games, not, as we first read it that he...
London County Council Captain Matthew Flinders, R.N., 1774 - 1814, explorer and navigator, lived here.
There is a movement to have these plaques erected across the UK, coordinated by the National Service Veterans Association. We thank Lion...
Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them