A great project initiated by pupils and staff at Stretford High School led to blue commemorative plaques being placed on the digs of two of the Busby Babes: Tommy Taylor and Duncan Edwards.
The plaque on Edwards’ former home was unveiled by his former team mate Sir Bobby Charlton. International cricket umpire Dickie Bird, who had played football alongside his friend Tommy as a schoolboy in Barnsley, did the honours at Great Stone Road. The commemorations were reported by the Manchester Evening News.
At the time of the tragedy of the Munich disaster, Taylor was living at 22 Greatstone Road and Edwards’ digs were at 19 Gorse Avenue.View
A couple of days after the project found me via twitter, another tweet provided a reminder that Edwards would have been 75 on 1 October 2011. He is also commemorated with a statue in his home town of Dudley unveiled in 1999 and re-dedicated in 2015.