Erection date: 9/9/2012
Nike (pronounced Neekay)
Ancient Greek goddess of victory.
Spirit of the Games sculptor, Pavlos Angelos Kougioumtzis.
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 is, himself, the Spirit of the Games who is also the sculptor.
SE18, Number 1 Street, Main Guardhouse
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Nike Statue - Plaque 2
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Nike Statue - Plaque 2
Sculptor. Born in Drama, Macedonia, Greece. 2018: Versions of his statue of ...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Nike Statue - Plaque 2
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{Below an image of the discus thrower:} The Ancient Games The ancient Olympic...
Note: This is not the site where the V2 fell, that is Hughes Mansions, 2 streets over to the east, where there is another plaque.
John Lindley, 1799 - 1865, botanist and pioneer orchidologist, lived here from 1836 and died here. English Heritage
Pulford Street and the Equitable Gas Works used to occupy this six acre site. In the 1930s the Pulford Street Site Committee was respons...
We visited 5 weeks after the unveiling and the velcro that held the curtain was still in place. Wonder how long it remained...
Janet Johnson (1858 - 1955) pioneer welfare worker. Lived at 39 Redcross Way. She became the first woman Guardian of the Poor in Southwar...
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