This is a photograph of the original Munich Memorial at Old Trafford which I took in about 1962.
The wording on the memorial was always difficult to read, especially in bright sunlight as it was in gold letters on a green field and this photograph was a colour slide which has deteriorated somewhat over the years. The memorial is still there although it cannot now be seen as it was over the main entrance to the stadium which is on the south side alongside the railway line. When the stadium was extended on that side, which resulted in the upper part of the stand being built out over the access road thus creating a tunnel, it was decided that it wasn't possible to remove and re-site the memorial so it disappeared from sight when the alterations were made.
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