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Interesting Crown Woods alumnus
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A lot of social workers did 😉lancashire lad said:my wife went there1 -
Charlton legend Alan Hart was in my year. Played three times for Charlton, scored twice.0
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Wiki says Bowman was born 25/9/54 & turned professional March with Charlton March 1973.Redrobo said:
You left school in 1974 aged 20?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_Bowman
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DOUCHER said:i was at crown woods 82 - 89 - never heard of him but school was so big you could quite easily not know a lot of people who weren't in your yearEastTerrace said:Never heard of him btw, I was there 81-87
@DOUCHER, @EastTerrace do you remember some teachers - Paul Seton, teaching art or DT, and Mandy Carr teaching French, Tony Ring teaching maths (you may have been before his time)?
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It might also be because Wikis aren't necessarily accurate.Cardinal Sin said:Wiki says he was privately educated at Blackrock College before Uni of East London and Queens Uni Belfast. No mention of the esteemed Crown Woods. If he did go there, it might have been as 'Ian Brown' to make spelling his name easier.0 -
He tells all the shinners that he went to fook the crown woods school.0
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You were at school and your mate was married? I thought Crown Woods was in South East London, not South East Louisiana.DOUCHER said:
As an aside, we had only three written rules at Aske's. No beard, no moustache, no wife. Presumably from the time Robert Aske or the Haberdashers set up the school.0 -
I was there in the early 1960's left in 65.
I wasn't famous and didn't know any famous people apart from Dennis Edwards and Keith Peacock who took a couple of football lessons.0 -
I was born in August 1955.Covered End said:
Wiki says Bowman was born 25/9/54 & turned professional March with Charlton March 1973.Redrobo said:
You left school in 1974 aged 20?
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We must know each other because Alan Hart was in my class at Crown Woods Class A2.Alex Wright said:Charlton legend Alan Hart was in my year. Played three times for Charlton, scored twice.
Also I watched Charlton play away at Southend on a Friday night when I remember Alan coming on as a substitute making his league debut for Charlton and scoring.0 -
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Owen o'brian would be much more accurateCardinal Sin said:Wiki says he was privately educated at Blackrock College before Uni of East London and Queens Uni Belfast. No mention of the esteemed Crown Woods. If he did go there, it might have been as 'Ian Brown' to make spelling his name easier.0 -
So did ICovered End said:0 -
Are you sure that A2 wasn't the road you used to get there?Billericaydickie said:
We must know each other because Alan Hart was in my class at Crown Woods Class A2.Alex Wright said:Charlton legend Alan Hart was in my year. Played three times for Charlton, scored twice.
Also I watched Charlton play away at Southend on a Friday night when I remember Alan coming on as a substitute making his league debut for Charlton and scoring.
Regarding the Southend match, was that the one where Vince O'Kane got sent off?0 -
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That’s right, make us all feel very very old.DaveMehmet said:My grandad taught there. I think he was a head of year and taught economics. Would have been in the 70’s. Mr Williams.What was his first name? (It was a comprehensive).0 -
my dad went to Eltham Green - he said it had a better reputation than Crown Woods - must have been talking about fightingSuedeAdidas said:
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just to help for those struggling a bit up top - she went out with jude law when they were both at school - my mate married her after she left school and is still married to her nowAddicksAddict said:
You were at school and your mate was married? I thought Crown Woods was in South East London, not South East Louisiana.DOUCHER said:
As an aside, we had only three written rules at Aske's. No beard, no moustache, no wife. Presumably from the time Robert Aske or the Haberdashers set up the school.0 -
Sounds like an interesting lad. As someone with family in Belfast and who spent every school holiday there (split between there Cavan & Tipp) during the 70s & 80s, it's a really refreshing outlook and should be welcomed. My younger cousins and their families have had a far better life since the GFA and we need to see that continue.guinnessaddick said:https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/republic-of-ireland/as-schoolboy-sinn-feins-eoin-o-broin-found-himself-following-the-troubles-in-northern-ireland-and-trying-to-work-out-why-there-was-so-much-division-39977666.html
It was the mid-1980s when he took an interest in politics while attending Crown Woods Comprehensive in London after realising "the world we lived in wasn't fair". He found himself following the Troubles in Northern Ireland and trying to work out why there was so much division.
His work on social housing and homelessness should be applauded too. Politics in the Republic has been almost as bad as the US with the only choice for most of the last 90 years being between Fianna Gael and Fianna Fáil. People like Ó Broin, on all sides, can only be good for an Ireland for all.
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My old man went Crown Woods, born November 1955. Nigel Southam if anyone knows him.Redrobo said:
I was born in August 1955.Covered End said:
Wiki says Bowman was born 25/9/54 & turned professional March with Charlton March 1973.Redrobo said:
You left school in 1974 aged 20?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_Bowman
He's not that interesting though.1 -
I cant swear by it but I think Wiki must be wrong there. I went out with his sister in the late 70's and dont remember him being that old thenCovered End said:
Wiki says Bowman was born 25/9/54 & turned professional March with Charlton March 1973.Redrobo said:
You left school in 1974 aged 20?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_Bowman0 -
We don't talk about Nigels on here.3
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Jude Law and @ElfsborgAddick share a claim to fame .. both went to John Ball primary school in Blackheath village ((:>)1
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Are you sure that A2 wasn't the road you used to get there?Billericaydickie said:
We must know each other because Alan Hart was in my class at Crown Woods Class A2.Alex Wright said:Charlton legend Alan Hart was in my year. Played three times for Charlton, scored twice.
Also I watched Charlton play away at Southend on a Friday night when I remember Alan coming on as a substitute making his league debut for Charlton and scoring.
Regarding the Southend match, was that the one where Vince O'Kane got sent off?
The match in question was played about 47 years ago.
I cannot remember Vince O’Kane as a player, let alone whether he played and got sent off.
From memory we lost 2-1, so we were probably only playing with 10 players.0 -
We drew 1-1 with a last minute equaliser. I was there.
O'Kane was sent off. It was a Friday evening.
At the time I was a dickhead student (not a student any longer) and got on the underground at Seven Sisters paying for one stop.
Crossed the platform at Barking Station to the mainline and at Southend station paid from the one station before.
After the game hitched back to London, and amazingly was back in Tottenham (where I lived with other students) by around 11.15 pm.
No segregation btw.1 -
I do remember a Friday evening, and I do remember Alan Hart scoring. But that was because he was in my class at Crown Woods.seth plum said:We drew 1-1 with a last minute equaliser. I was there.
O'Kane was sent off. It was a Friday evening.
At the time I was a dickhead student (not a student any longer) and got on the underground at Seven Sisters paying for one stop.
Crossed the platform at Barking Station to the mainline and at Southend station paid from the one station before.
After the game hitched back to London, and amazingly was back in Tottenham (where I lived with other students) by around 11.15 pm.
No segregation btw.
I also recall that Southend did not have a tannoy system, or if they did it was rubbish.
This was because when Alan Hart came on as a substitute in the second half, Southend didn’t announce it. I only knew who he was because I knew him and I recall telling people around me who he was.
Regarding Vince O’Kane. I in the 1970’s I was going to approximately 36 games every season, but I just do not recall Vince O’Kane playing for Charlton.
Presumably he only played a few games for Charlton?0 -
My only real memory of O'Kane was that he was a tough bastard.0
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From memory O'Kane played alongside Dave Shipperley at the back, they both came through at the same time, big Dave would attack everything in the air and Vinnie would tidy behind him, he was also a good man marker, I believe his career was cut short by injury but stand to be corrected on that.0
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Died May 2018seth plum said:My only real memory of O'Kane was that he was a tough bastard.
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