Malta Reunion 2005

Reunion Photos - Nov 2002

Friends Reunited List

413 Direct Email Addresses Held

Hello and welcome aboard. From the early 1950s to the 1970s RNS Verdala was the school for many Naval children based in Malta. This site gives you the opportunity to re-establish contact with past pupils and teachers. It gives you the opportunity to share your experiences and memories. The idea is to assemble historical material; photographs of interest; documents of events; maybe even a school report if they still exist! Call it a "virtual" chronicle of Verdala. You will find the link to Friends Reunited invaluable.  Have a look at the [first-old-discontinued] picture gallery.  Feel free to leave your contact details in the Roll Call and do please sign the Guest BookPlease feel free to join the  .  A Forum is for all to read, reminisce and participate in discussion.  Have a look at the New Style Gallery

IMPORTANT: Email address update facility.Register your change of email address. Anyone who inserted a Guest Book entry or completed the Roll Call some years ago may be missing out on being contacted.

21 March 2009 Reunion Page and Updates

History of Tal Handaq and Verdala
 
November 2002 Reunion Feedback and Pictures
 
People tracing suggestions
 
Local newspapers:
Malta Independent
Times of Malta
 
Maltese Cross history:
History
 
**From the scholastic year 2008-2009 Guzeppi Despott Boys' Junior Lyceum and Lorenzo Gafa Boys' Secondary amalgamated and became St. Margaret's College Boys' Secondary. Link to school page
 
 

 Nelson  Drake White Stevenson
 Hawkins  St.Vincent

Roll-Call submissions are confidential. A database is retained by the Webmaster.

Maltavista.net
Map and scenes of Malta.

 

naval school in malta

Location Map

A Special Visitor

Aerial View 1

Aerial View 2

Bus Park

"to love the game rather than the prize"


A summary of Verdala pictures
 People Location Poll

 

Kinnie
Now look what you can mix with a Kinnie!

 

 

1st September 2010

14th-16th September 2010 Malta Reunion information sheet: Link

30th August 2010

For information: The Webmaster has just been made aware that there is a reunion on 13th September 2010 in Malta. He has no idea of what the arrangements are and no information has reached him to publish agendas on this site. Andrew West is co-ordinating this event. See Link

**10th August 2009

New Picture Gallery for the March 2009 Yeovil Reunion is now online. Please add your pictures

Information about the proposed 2010 reunion in Malta can be found and discussed in The Forum

**14th March 2009

Someone (Joe Belgore?) is sending SPAM through the Roll Call contact link. Please ignore. DO NOT RESPOND - Email addresses have NOT been disclosed-they are hidden. Access has been suspended for a while. We have reported the messages to SOCA : Link: www.soca.gov.uk

**7 March 2009

The webmaster is relocating to a very remote and sunny island in the Caribbean at the end of March 2009. Unfortunately, it is to work and not to laze life away on golden sands, sail and swim in turquoise seas. However, I will give it a good try! The Verdala site is really self running. I considered upgrading the site some years ago and never got round to it. Life is too short to be attached to a PC and life is for living. Please continue to support the site and hopefully it will continue to generate happy memories of those carefree days. What a pity we all have to grow up,work hard and age! Best wishes - Alastair

**12 February 2009

In the name of the headmaster Mr Stephen Cachia of St. Margaret College Verdala I would like to invite you ex students and teachers of the Royal Navy School Verdala for the Open Sunday on 15th March at our college from 9.00am to 5.00pm. See Rita's entry in THE GUEST BOOK.

**27 January 2009

Colours of Malta: Take a look at picture 14 of the 28 in this stunning powerpoint (converted to PDF) that Brother Martin Azzopardi of St Margaret's College has just sent! It all looks a bit different now! AND HAVE THEY REPLACED THE PALM TREE?! That doesn't look like it! - Liz. [loads as an Adobe file-please be patient-long pause at end of loading]

**8 October 2008

Initial details of the 2009 reunion.  A mailshot notification will be sent out shortly to all known email addresses. Make sure that your email address held by Verdala.com is current otherwise you could miss out. All reunion correspondence and questions should be directed to Sue Adams.  2009 Reunion Main Page

**13 September 2008

There is a mini reunion on 5th October at the Magic Kiosk, Sliema at 12 noon, probably 5 ex Verdalans going.

**5 September 2008

Have a look at a You Tube film of Malta  [make sure sound is on]

**3 September 2008**

The Guest Book is receiving a lot of "conversational" material.  Please kindly use the Forum .   A Guest Book is not intended to be a place for discussion/s. The "Email" facility is there to connect with specific individuals.

** 2 July 2008**

Sue Adams has kindly volunteered to arrange a UK Reunion. A new website section will be presented to manage the organisation of the event.  And, a 2009 Proposed Reunion forum thread has been created so that information can be shared.

**10 June 2008**

A New Forum has been created.  See the Forum for information regarding the archive of previous posts. You will need to register to use this specific application.

**7 June 2008**

A new category has been opened in the New Gallery section to UPLOAD and VIEW pictures showing the recent building, development and upgrading of Verdala.  If pictures uploaded are too large, the webmaster will endeavour to resize them to an appropriate scale.

**April 2008**

Forum issue: We are aware of a technical problem with the Forum Board.  It does work with Firefox / Mozilla and Opera browsers.   There is a quirky issue with Microsoft IE.  The ISP has also made some changes recently to their operating arena and this may be causing the problem. 

** 12 January 2008 **

NEW: Email address update facility.  Register your change of email address.  Anyone who inserted a Guest Book entry or completed the Roll Call some years ago may be missing out on being contacted.

** 23 August 2007

There's a Tal Handaq reunion in September 2007. Link

**19 November 2006

Liz Mardel has suggested opening a Forum Section on the Verdala building / upgrading work which started in late 2006.  Link
Interestingly, Tal Handaq is also being redeveloped.

**17 November 2006

Demolition and building works at Verdala. Submitted by Chris Jenkins. Picture Link

**Peter Prictoe. Verdala's most  senior pupil. To Malta with Love

**7 March 2006

At the risk of breaching BBC copyright here it is; the recording of  Scottish Shorts, Tomato Sauce Credits go to Vivian Jones

**7 March 2006

We have recently been advised by Martin Powell that his father  Bert Powell, a teacher at Verdala in the early 60s, died suddenly in December.

** 20 November 2005

Times of Malta article: Verdala Reunion - link

The Verdala Story by Rita Debattista.  Please kindly note page 2.  Should you require a copy of the Powerpoint Presentation please contact Rita.  The site presentation is in a locked Adobe file format. When loaded, hit Enter or Page Down to see the whole presentation.

** 1 October 2005

Remember to upload your Malta Reunion  pictures.  If you have conventional prints and no scanner let the webmaster know.

Take care when uploading pictures.  Watch out that you do not upload unacceptable characters. Pictures may be received but comments may not be received if spaces, hyphens etc are used when the picture was uploaded. Solution - submit another narrative!

6 July 2005:
SCAMS: Beware. Some emails have been sent from the Guest Book by SCAM SPAMMERS. They DO NOT know and will not get to know your email address. Do not respond to the sender if you are sent such a message. Information. Messages that are prepared from the Guest Book and Roll Call are tracked and we will endeavour to mitigate messages of this type. NCIS is aware of this kind of activity.  Beware of 419 Letter/Mail scams.

New style picture gallery. Sample presentations.