The Munich Disaster

A Memory of Slough.

Ouch! Someone mentioned the old Library in William Street. On the way home from Langley Grammar a few of us used to go to the Library to do our homework before travelling on (me on the 460 to Wraysbury). Outside the Library was a newspaper board and I vividly remember that the board showed that the Manchester United team had been involved in an air crash. Having seen the great Duncan Edwards play and, like a lot of youngsters then, been enthralled by the "Busby Babes" (it's not easy to realise nowadays what effect this young team had, it was the beginning of the United legend and the majority of folk loved them - honestly!) I was stunned then and couldn't believe what I heard later. A lot of people (apparently) know where they were when they heard about JFK's death but I remember where I was when I heard about the Munich Air Crash.