Plaque commemorating the Life of William Penny Brookes in Much Wenlock, Shropshire.
Plaque commemorating the Life of William Penny Brookes in Much Wenlock, Shropshire. The town is known for Wenlock Olympian Games set up by Dr. William Penny Brookes in 1850. In 1861 he was also instrumental in setting up the Shropshire Games and later in 1866, the National Olympian Games. Dr. Brookes is credited as a founding father of the Modern Olympic Games, and meetings between William Penny Brookes and Baron Pierre de Coubertin took place at The Raven Hotel (as did the feast which concluded each year’s Olympian Games), and today in The Raven Hotel there are displayed many artefacts from those early years, including original letters from Baron Pierre de Coubertin to William Penny Brookes. The town's secondary school is named after William Penny Brookes. The Wenlock Olympian Games, a four-day event during the second weekend in July, are still contested in the town annually.
Size: 5100px × 3960px
Location: Much Wenlock, Shropshire, England
Photo credit: © Phil Hynds / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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