Honours - Eddie Wingrave

[mrP(Boonen)VT]

Forget that Ohorugooooo woman

Our own Eddie Wingrave has been given an MBE for services to cycling

For those that don't know Eddie, he was running the Tuesday evening races at Crystal Palace when I started racing (1972 ) and I though he was an old £££££ then, as he controlled them with a rod of iron. He had no nonsense and if anyone took their hands off the handlebars for a victory salute, they were disqualified.....he was a stickler for the rules, but always fair. He would cover the signing on, the judging and the commissairing all by himself. He also ran Herne Hill Monday Comp and commissaired numerous other events.

Only in the last few years has he passed over the Crystal Palace reins to some of the "younger" people. He recently clebrated his 90th birthday (at Crystal Palace)

Three cheers for Eddie.
Hip hip hooray
Hip hip hooray
Hip hip hooray

Guru P

[-Adam-]

Thats good news, any of the other stalwarts on the list Paul?

Like Stuart Benstead, or dare I ask... Keith Butler???

[John the old'un]

Yep, I'll raise a glass to Eddie Wingrave. He was running Monday Comp at Herne Hill back in the Sixties.
A lifetime of "giving" to our great sport.

[Alex P]

We certainly need to raise a glass (lets do it at the Annual Dinner and Dance) to all the cyclists who were honoured and especially Eddie Wingrave as there would not be champions without people like him.

[Andrew G]

Very well deserved, still been up at the Palace for the races even though not running them anymore. Without people like this none of us could race in any area of the sport.

Some of us raised a glass before knowing this, good to know there was a reason for it now.

[Roy Green]

Proud to say I was one (of so many) bawled at by Eddie, in the 1960s, from a following control car, for some minor crime against good racing order ...

[joyce]

I also give three cheers to Eddie Wingrave, I worked with him at Herne Hill,Crystal Palace as Time keeper and Judge from 1964 when I first took up holding the watch, enjoying his company and learning his art of running things his own way.I was very lucky to toast him at the S.C.C.U. Lunch back in November along with his wife Anne and Arthur Rayner who were also over 90 years old.


Joyce the Boss.

[Maria David]

I only saw this in the paper today and was really pleased to learn of it - more so than for our Beijing heroes.

It's great that grass roots folks also get such recognition for their services to cycling, and I'm pleased that Eddie's getting a medal after all these years. He still turns out for the crits at CP and was doing the announcements at the Herne Hill track league last season. Big Congratulations Mr Wingrave.

I hope more of the folks involved in local cycling get honoured before long as well.

[Snoop Doug]

[quote="Maria David"]I hope more of the folks involved in local cycling get honoured before long as well.