Alumni Stories

Your Outward Bound Stories

Each story is an adventure worth reading.

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John Thompson - Moray Sea School, Burghead Scotland, 1961

27 April 18

At 18 working in London for Post Office Telecommunications, I was asked to go on...

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Maurice Powner - Aberdovey, Wales, 1969

27 April 18

Sorting through old “pre-digital” photographs, I cam across this - and a few mem...

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Derrick Armstrong Cowan - Moray Sea School, Burghead Scotland, 1972

16 April 18

I had seen a film about the Outward Bound on television so when the rector of th...

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Andrew Eales - Loch Eil, Scottish Highlands, 1985

7 April 18

I went on a 21 day Outward Bound Course at Loch Eil in 1985 sponsored by Bells S...

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Robert Hutton - Moray Sea School, Burghead Scotland, 1962

4 April 18

As one of the " under privileged kids " from Glasgow, I was sent by my school, I...

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Wolfgang Schmidt - Moray Sea School, Burghead Scotland, 1955

3 April 18

Talking of seasickness the other day brought back memories to my mind that I had...

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Frank Collinson - Devon on Ashburton, 1964

28 March 18

In a time when children were able to take a month off school, I and two other bo...

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Ann Gates - Aberdovey, Wales, 1978

28 March 18

I was sponsored by Brixham's Inner Wheel to spend three weeks at Aberdovey in th...

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Philip Welch - Ullswater, The Lake District, 1974

26 March 18

The month I spent in the Lake District 44 years ago is still one of my most inte...

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