Like John, I too was very shocked and saddened to learn of Roy's death.  Until that wonderful reunion in 2001 (how can it be 5 years ago already) I had not been in contact with Roy, or with so many others, but it was amazing how old friendships were so quickly picked up over a few beers.   Roy, hair-loss apart, seemed to have changed relatively little in the intervening years, and I would have recognized him anywhere.  He lived very close me in Rainhill, and we used to catch the number 7 bus in the morning from the same bus-stop outside the Coach & Horses.  The house structure at PGS being arranged on strictly alphabetical lines, we were also in the same form group, along with David Anderton, Mike Burrill, Mike Ashton, Roy Clarke, Albert Ball, Rob Barrigan, Roy Bradford, Bill Friar, Alan Crickmore, David Bolshaw, John Cashen and a few others whose names I have no doubt will come back to me later, as I raise a glass to Roy.  God bless. Peter Chadwick