🚧 Alumni Stories

Your Outward Bound Stories

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Dennis Robinson - Moray Sea School, Burghead Scotland, 1958

23 December 10

I was selected to go on the course by The Admiralty as I was completing an appre...

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John Harold Woods - Aberdovey, Wales, 1955

20 December 10

I was born in Liverpool in 1940, and in 1955 my father was a Warehouse Superinte...

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John Kennedy - Devon on Ashburton, 1975

13 December 10

I attended Holne Park during August 1975. I was a fresh faced apprentice telepho...

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Ian Cook - Aberdovey, Wales, 1944

6 December 10

After becoming a Watch Captain at Aberdovey I was accepted as a Midshipman with ...

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Paul Shoemake - Devon on Ashburton, 1972

5 December 10

I attended Holne Park Outward Bound school in 1972. The school was on the edge o...

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Jake Rowledge - Moray Sea School, Burghead Scotland, 1956

29 November 10

I was at Burghead in 1956 and 1957, I believe in the month of August both times....

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peter sim - Devon on Ashburton, 1967

24 November 10

I went to Devon in Feb !967 on a 4 week course through Bangor Grammar School and...

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Beryl Robinson (nee Waller - Rhowniar, Wales, 1968

9 November 10

In 1968 I was 14 years old and travelled to Wales by train which was a real adve...

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Jack Pearson - Aberdovey, Wales, 1960

5 November 10

I left Grammar school 50 years ago this week. I had been accepted by the School ...

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