Built 1860–1870, 1939 | ||
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Similar Hillberry Corner, Kate's Cottage - Isle of Man, Quarterbridge - Isle of Man, Braddan Bridge, TT Grandstand | ||
Guthrie's Memorial (previously The Cutting) is a S-bend corner between the 26th Milestone and 27th Milestone motor-cycle racing road-side markers used for the Snaefell Mountain Course on the primary A18 Snaefell Mountain Road in the parish of Lezayre in the Isle of Man.
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A18 Snaefell Mountain Road
The A18 Snaefell Mountain Road was developed in the mid-nineteenth century from a number of pre-existing roads, carting-tracks and bridle paths. This included installation of a number of sheep-gates, milestones, the building of a series of embankments, revetments, purpose built graded sections which reflected nineteenth century highway and railway building practices. This included the distinctive road embankments which gave the S-bend corner the previous name of The Cutting. This section of the A18 Snaefell Mountain Road from the Keppel Gate to Park Mooar / Park Llewellyn (North Barrule) was built on common grazing land that were transferred to the UK Crown following the sale of the Islands feudal rights by the Duke of Atholl after the Disafforesting Commission of 1860. The nearby revetment and embankment at the 27th Milestone is sometimes informerly referred to as the Guthrie's Bridge. The western side embankment at Guthrie's Memorial was removed during the winter of 2004/2005 by the Isle of Man Department of Transport as a road traffic improvement, followed by a small section of the north-eastern embankment in April 2009. During the winter of 2012/2013 the stone TT Marshall's shelter at Guthrie's Memorial was demolished.
Motor-Sport Heritage
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 crashing fatally during the 1937 German Grand Prix a memorial to Jimmie Guthrie was built in 1939 at the The Cutting at a cost of £1,500. Paid for by public subscription, the memorial was built at the spot where he retired in his last Isle of Man TT Race.
The inscription on the memorial reads:
A further memorial was created on the Hohenstein-Ernstthal or Sachsenring course, in 1949, at the site of the fatal accident. That memorial is called the "Guthrie Stone."