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Jack Walker

(Photo by Ian Brown ©)

Subject(s): Jack Walker
Sport: Football

Location: Blackburn Rovers FC, Ewood Park, Blackburn, Lancashire
Unveiled: 25/9/2001
Sculptor: James Butler
Material: Bronze
Status: In Situ

Inscription(s):
Embossed on base: 1929 JACK WALKER 2000.

Inscribed on backdrop right: Jack Walker Rovers Greatest Supporter

Inscribed on backdrop left: Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room. I am I and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, that we still are. Call me by my old familiar name. Speak to me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference in your tone. Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word it always was. Let it be spoken without effect, without a trace of a shadow on it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same that it ever was. There is absolutely unbroken continuity. Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner. All is well. Henry Scott Holland.

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(Photo by Ian Brown ©)

(Photo by Ian Brown ©)

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