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Feb

13

Terry Marshgreen

Godfrey, you are very welcome mate, good to see that you still follow the Addicks, better days ahead, we hope!

Jan

15

Godfrey Munro

Message for Brian Goddard re his earlier post 25th August. I note with interest that you are a Charlton Supporter. I have the autographs of the 1947 Cup winning side. Unfortunately excluding my hero of the time Chris Duffy the goal scorer. At school I played alongside Brian Kinsey who later joined Charlton as a full time professional.

Jan

15

Godfrey Munro

Message to Terry Marshgreen in reply to my question regarding the Roan School Song. Apologies for thanking you for your earlier reply. You had already started the second verse with 'Here's to old John Roan' Is there anyone who can kindly complete the second verse.

Jan

2

Chris Watson

I was at Roan School from 1948 to 1956 after my brother Jim Watson and followed by my younger brother Mike Watson, both now passed on.

I have still a copy of the Stag List for 1951-1952. This is in the form of 14 jpeg files (about 10 MB). If any one would like a copy send me an email at watty2c@yahoo.com I wonder if anyone who was in the remove year 70 years ago .......

Oct

6

John Downs

My father, Eric Downs, MBE, attended John Roan School from 1932 to 1938 before joining the RAF. Eric recently celebrated his 101st birthday and remains amazingly fit and active.

Jun

10

Terry Marshgreen

I sincerely hope that I won't be one of the last Old Roans to post a message here.

Apr

6

TextGB

TEXTGB.GA - Please visit my guestbook and write something for me. Thank you very much.

Jan

16

Terry Marshgreen

Godfrey as far as I can remember the words of the school song were as follows,
Here's to old John Roan
Who lived and worked and died
In the mighty days of Cromwell of Milton and of Blake
We were born in days of passion
We were reared in days of pride
Which gave the seas to England
With continents beside
Is there nothing we can give her for our founders sake?
Ourselves we give to England till John Roan shall wake
Here's to old John Roan
Sing him high sing him low
He it was who placed us on the road that we shall go
There is a second verse but the last time I sang it was back in 1965 so the memory isn't that good
I hope that helps and good to see somebody using this page
Kind regards Terry Marshgreen 1959-1965

Jan

16

Godfrey Munro

Very interesting reading all these memories of the school. For me Founders Day at the Naval College, Cross Country Runs in Greenwich Park were very special. However, does anyone have a copy of the words for the School Song
which was very stirring. It went like this: Here's to old John Roan who lived and worked and died in the mighty days of Cromwell..............etc

Apr

19

Brian Goddard

John, it was Kevin Todd. I remembered Garstang being totally unreasonable and making Kevin have his longish hair cut when he was in the Removes or the Fifth Form. (Or did Garstang actually cut it himself, as he did with John Watson, a former Timbercroft pupil, who he later suspended for dyeing his hair?) Anyway, I thought that I'd let Kevin get his own back and so I put him forward as the only candidate for my replacement. Garstang was a good head and a decent man normally but he had a real thing about hair!

Apr

18

John Dennis 1964-71

Hi Brian. Trust you and yours are well.
I too remember Ray and his Shakespearean appearances in particular. I would have put his Head Boy year as 65-66 so think I must have blanked the one between him and Peacok - who was in situ when I arrived. And who followed you?
Cheers
John

Feb

7

Brian Goddard

So sad to hear of the death of Ray Stone. Ray was School Captain in 1966-67 when I was made a prefect. I was a youngster as I had come up into the 6th Form directly from the Removes and Ray did a lot to make me feel at home in the Prefects' Room. Indeed, it was through his recommendation that, after he left school, I replaced him as School Captain in September 1967. For a while, we used to both attend the Old Roan Club regularly, where Ray would meet up with the likes of Tony Slaney and Dick Hitchin. We hadn't seen each other for years before we met up again at Tony's funeral. I'm sure that Ray will be missed by many Old Roans.

Jan

28

Terry Marshgreen

Thanks Mick and Bob for your very appropriate words about Ray. His funeral is on February 8th and I can hopefully send you send you the link for the live streaming if you wish. Just leave a message here or email me at marshgreen@bigpond.com

Jan

27

Mick Hudson

I am much saddened to learn of the death of Ray Stone. Our friendship goes back to the time we were five and joined the same primary school, Lee Manor. We were also in the same Sunday School class at the Good Shepherd, Lee and later became members of the same youth club, to which we recruited Terry and David. This friendship was, however, closest while we were at Roan.
He was an obvious choice as my Best Man. He was excellent in that sort of role and I know that Bob and I are not the only grooms who asked him.

Jan

27

Bob Burton

Sad news about Ray Stone

Ray was School Captain when I was Vice Captain and although our interests did not overlap much we shared an love of the Lake District and went to the junior Braithwaite as seniors

After we left Roan we and others, including Tony Slaney and Mick Hudson went camping in the Lake District for a number of years

I used to see him at the club and Ray was the best man at my first wedding but we lost contact afterwards and I did not see him until Tony Slaney's funeral and exchanged a few emails afterwards

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