{"id":6492,"date":"2022-02-18T15:08:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T15:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/2022\/02\/18\/manchester-united-legend-duncan-edwards-belongings-be-sold-auction\/"},"modified":"2022-02-18T15:08:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T15:08:31","slug":"manchester-united-legend-duncan-edwards-belongings-be-sold-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/manchester-united-legend-duncan-edwards-belongings-be-sold-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United legend Duncan Edwards\u2019 belongings to be sold at auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Items belonging to Manchester United star Duncan Edwards, who was killed in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=2ahUKEwil7YW_xIn2AhW8Q0EAHX_dAeMQFnoECAcQAQ&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.manutd.com%2Fen%2Fhistory%2Fmunich-remembered&amp;usg=AOvVaw10bc3v6BzKxjiHuLCgmgOD\">Munich Air Disaster<\/a>, are to be auctioned by the family of his fianc\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=2ahUKEwj_9MSzxIn2AhW3QEEAHewSDsAQFnoECAUQAQ&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FDuncan_Edwards&amp;usg=AOvVaw2El23vnnMkWWvPL2OJn1s8\">Duncan Edwards<\/a> was a promising left-half who had already made 151 appearances for Manchester United and 18 caps for England when he was seriously injured at the Munich-Reim airport.<\/p>\n<p>He survived the initial plane crash but died in hospital 15 days later.<\/p>\n<p>Edwards was tipped to be a future England captain and had a bright footballing career ahead of him.<\/p>\n<p>His fianc\u00e9, Molly Leech, was left with Edwards\u2019 belongings and never parted with them. She died in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Now, her family have decided to sell the items through a Northamptonshire auction house.<\/p>\n<p>The items on sale include Edwards\u2019 family photo album, including pictures of him playing for United and England, letters from well-wishers, his overnight bag and football programmes.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image file-default media-element\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-delta=\"1\" data-fid=\"8157\" data-media-element=\"1\" height=\"638\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.satellite.mmu.ac.uk\/northernquota-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/437\/2022\/02\/edwards_bag-scaled.jpg\" title=\"Duncan Edwards' overnight bag. Image courtesy of PA Media \" width=\"600\"><figcaption>Edwards&#8217; overnight bad, one of the items for sale. Image: PA Media<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Molly\u2019s daughters, who wish to remain anonymous, said: \u201cI just can\u2019t imagine what my mother must have gone through when she had to go to Munich.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was such a sad and awful part of her life \u2013 she was just 22.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe died in 2004&nbsp;at the age of 68. Our father died three years ago&nbsp;and although we did keep in touch with&nbsp;and visited Mrs Edwards, Duncan\u2019s mother, we are one step removed from the story and we would like his legacy to continue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Graham Budd, who will be selling the memorabilia, said: \u201cThe story of Duncan Edwards and Molly Leech is so poignant and sad.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They had everything going for them \u2013 they were an elegant, smartly dressed, photogenic young couple.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe signed for Manchester United when he was 16.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Despite a brief interlude when he did national service with his team mate Bobby Charlton, he had a magnificent career and many say that he would have been the captain of the 1966 World Cup England squad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe items in this sale are so personal and it is a privilege to have been asked by Molly\u2019s daughters to sell them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The auction will be held online on 8 March.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Additional reporting and all images: PA Media<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Items belonging to Manchester United star Duncan Edwards, who was killed in the Munich Air Disaster, are to be auctioned by the family of his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1615,"featured_media":6490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4972,1],"tags":[1579,1580,74,1617],"class_list":["post-6492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorised","tag-busby-babes","tag-duncan-edwards","tag-manchester-united","tag-munich-air-disaster"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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