Peter,
My dear friend Eric Hodson worked like a trojan for several years to try to establish a fitting memorial to Richard Walker.
But he couldn't somehow get the support. He was able to collect a little money but inevitably he had to return this to the people who had donated it.
Eric wanted a plaque to be put up in Winchester Cathedral, close to Isaak Walton's memorial. I suggested a monument or a stone plaque that could be placed at Thornton Bridge on the Upper Ouse. But others poo-pooed the idea saying it would be destroyed by vandals.
Sincerely, something needs to be done before the very few of us living who knew him, kick the bucket too.
Maybe we should start the Richard Walker Memorial Fund. Maybe this website could be the fount or catalyst to start this fund.
**** died of cancer, that is true, but it was cancer of the prostrate, not lung cancer.
Barrie Rickards is working on a biography of Walker. I hope it is finished shortly. When that day arrives it is perhaps fitting that somehow we have a **** Walker rememberance day - call it what you like.
If anyone with the same ideals as Peter, myself; and maybe lots of others who recognise the enormous contribution that Richard Stuart Walker made to our sport, could get together at some time in the future, then let them contact me.
I will certainly do all I can to help.