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
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The plaque is low down on the house adorned with scaffolding, so low that it suggests he lived in the basement flat.
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The plaque was laid in 1921 (British Pathe film) and the building was opened on 3 June 1926 by the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin and th...
The pair of them drank individually at several pubs in the area. Whether they quaffed here together at the same time is not known for sur...
These alms houses were built 1875 (north range) and 1887 (south range), and the site has the remains of a Second World War air raid shelt...
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