Manchester YMCA- The Caen Stone

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Reference WMO/285545

Address:

Y Club

Liverpool Road

Manchester

M3 4JR

England

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Status: On subsequent site(s)
Type: Non freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Roadside
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Foundation stone, known as the Caen Stone, which originally sat within Montgomery House (WMO/285543), but was removed when the YMCA sold the property in 1986, and was installed behind a protective perspex frame at the entrance to the YMCA's Y Club at Castlefields, Manchester in 1990. The incised inscription is painted light blue. See also WMO/285544), Memorial Books also removed in 1986, which are now in the care of Manchester Central Library. On the wall beside the entrance to the Y Gym in Castlefields Basin
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La Ville de Caen/ et/ La Resistance de Calvados/ En Souvenir Reconnaisant/ A L'aide Brittanique qui les delivra (The City of Caen and the Resistance of Calvados gratefully remember the British assistance delivered to them)

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