Guthrie's Memorial

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**Guthrie's Memorial**
TT Race Marshall Signal Box on the A18 Mountain Road looking north towards Guthrie's Memorial and the Point of Ayre.
Mountain Course
	Isle of Man
OS grid ref	SC 435 935
Parish	Lezayre
Course Distance
Followed by	Mountain Mile
Proceeed by	26th Milestone

Guthrie's Memorial is a corner on the primary A18 road in the parish of Lezayre in the Isle of Man between the 26th Milestone and the 27th Milestone.

This S-bend corner was part of the Highland Course and Four Inch Course used for the Gordon Bennett Trial and Tourist Trophy automobile car races held in the Isle of Man between 1904 and 1911. Also, Guthrie's Memorial is part of the Mountain Course used since 1911 for the Isle of Man TT and Manx Grand Prix Races.

The A18 Mountain Road was developed in the mid-Nineteenth century from a number of pre-exsisting roads and paths. This included the building of a number of sheep-gates including the East Mountain Gate, the Beinn-y-Phott sheep-gate and Keppel Gate. The primary road A18 Mountain Road section road from Keppel Gate to Park Lewellyn is a product of the Disaforesting Commission of 1860^[1] which includes the distinctive road embankments which gave the previous name of The Cutting. The western side embankment was removed during the winter of 2004 as a road traffic improvement.

During the 1937 Isle of Man TT Races, Jimmie Guthrie won the Junior TT but retired on lap 5 of the 1937 Senior TT race at The Cutting on the A18 Mountain Road section of the course. After his death while competing in the 1937 German Grand Prix, a memorial was erected to him in 1939. Paid for by public subscription the memorial was built at the place where he retired in his last Isle of Man TT Race and "The Cutting" has been called Guthrie's Memorial ever since. The inscription on the memorial reads as follows;-

"James Guthrie 1897-1937

Erected to the memory of Jimmy Guthrie, of Hawick, a brilliant Motor Cycle Rider, famous on the Isle of Man Tourist Trophy Course from his wonderful riding and great sportsmanship. He won the race six times, beat many world records and was the first in numerous foreign race's. He died while upholding the honour of his country in the Germany Grand Prix, August 1937."

A further memorial was created on the Hohenstein-Ernstthal or Sachsenring course in 1949 at the site of the fatal accident and is called the "Guthrie Stone."

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