BOLTON Wanderers have revealed plans to commemorate the Burnden Disaster ... long after their transfer to the Reebok Stadium.

A lasting tribute to the 33 people who lost their lives in the 1946 tragedy will be erected at the new ground but club officials are also hoping their memory will live on at the site of the disaster.

Wanderers are in the process of selling the £6.5 million Burnden site and any future remembrance of the disaster will be in the hands of the new owners.

Chief executive Des McBain explained: "We are planning to have a memorial at the new ground and, hopefully, there will continue be some recognition here on the original site.

"It is difficult to give specific plans because the ground is to be sold but we are looking to have something, probably the existing plaque, to stand as a lasting tribute."

The brass plaque, erected five years ago on the supermarket wall that now stands on the site where the deaths occured at the Bolton-Stoke FA Cup tie in March 1946, has been removed ahead of Friday night's Wanderers-Charlton game when the curtain will fall on 102 years of league football at Burnden Park.

"It is now in safe keeping until we can find a new place for it," Mr McBain added.

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