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Title
Eton Manor Panels
Date
c.2012
Medium
metal
Accession number
E20_TJ_S173
Acquisition method
commissioned by the Olympic Development Authority for the 2012 Olympics
Work type
Sculpture
Work status
extant
Access
at all times
Inscription description
plaque: Eton Manor / Carol Ann Duffy / This poem written buy the poet / laureate in 2012 commemorates this / site formerly known as "The Wilderness" / which housed the sports ground of the / Eton Manor Boys Club founded at / the beginning of the 20th Century / by old Etonians / Designed by Stephen Raw; panel 1: The past / is all / around us / In the air / the acres here were once / the wilderness - / Blimey its fir for a / Millionaire / Where Eton manor / Boys Club came to train / or, in the clubhouse (built 1913) translated / Poverty to / self esteem / comaraderie / an optimism / similied by smiles.; panel 2: Hackney Wick / Fleas, flies, bun lids / clarnicos Jam / the poor enclosed by / Railways, Marshland, factories, canals / where / Wellesley, Villiers, Wagg, cadagan / Came / Philanthropists / to clear a glorious space / connect the power of the place to / human hope / through World War One / the blitz till 1963 / on this spot / funtional, free, real / Heaven.; panel 3: This is legacy – / young lives respected, / cherished, / valued, / helped / to sprint, swim, bowl, box, / play, excel, belong; / believe community is / self in multitude — / the way the past still / dedicates to us / its distant, present light. / The / same / high / sky, / same East End moon, / above this reclaimed wilderness, / where relay boys are raced by / running ghosts / Carol Ann Duffy