🚧 Alumni Stories

Your Outward Bound Stories

Each story is an adventure worth reading.

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Jerry Whitmarsh - Ullswater, The Lake District, 1978

13 September 17

I attended the first course of the year in particularly bad winter conditions. I...

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John Vaughan - Aberdovey, Wales, 1962

6 September 17

On reflection this was probably the most formative period of my youth I recall s...

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William Galloway - Moray Sea School, Burghead Scotland, 1965

31 August 17

I attended the school in September around 1965/66. I was living in Glasgow and w...

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Bob Beams - Aberdovey, Wales, 1966

27 July 17

Sent by Nottingham City Police as a Cadet, for which I am eternally grateful for...

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Neil Wilson - Moray Sea School, Burghead Scotland, 1949

27 July 17

I was on the second course ever to be held at Burghead. It was a highlight of my...

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Yvonne Talyor nee Fidler - Rhowniar, Wales, 1974

11 July 17

I attended Rhowniar near Aberdovey Wales in 1974 or 1975. I cannot remember the ...

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Colin Barnard - Eskdale, The Lake District, 1968

19 June 17

An Eclectic bunch of city boys, were thrown together, in an achingly beautiful p...

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Frank Dawsom - Aberdovey, Wales, 1964

15 June 17

I set off from Scunthorpe solo on to aberdovey just a single rail line to be gre...

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Peter Lenius - Eskdale, The Lake District, 1950

14 May 17

I will tell my story as German participant 5 years after the end of a terrible w...

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