Final Years
Frank Pullen formally retired in 1988 and he died peacefully, aged 77, at his race horse sanctuary and livery yard in Orpington, Kent, and is buried at London Road Cemetery, Bromley. Racing enthusiast Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, whose nieces were inmates of Royal Earlswood Hospital where Pullens relatives James Henry Pullen and grandfather William Pullen were also notable residents, sent Frank's widow a letter of condolence upon hearing of his death.
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