Alumni Stories

Your Outward Bound Stories

Each story is an adventure worth reading.

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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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Dennis Freeman - Eskdale, The Lake District, 1951

19 March 18

OUTWARD BOUND It was nearly 67 years ago that I last walked through the gates of...

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Robert McGinley - Moray Sea School, Burghead Scotland, 1970

15 March 18

Hello. Memories has stuck with me all these years ago. I was an 18 year old appr...

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Les Cunningham - Moray Sea School, Burghead Scotland, 1973

2 March 18

Was a 16 year old junior soldier from oswestry , remember having to give a 5 min...

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Ronald Thompson - Eskdale, The Lake District, 1956

18 February 18

I was a wimp, I was bullied, I was the middle child of eleven children and my fa...

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Peter Bruton - Ullswater, The Lake District, 1968

17 February 18

My Course, U133 began in October 1968 when I was an 18-year old Police Cadet in ...

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David Telfer - Moray Sea School, Burghead Scotland, 1957

9 February 18

As I was never an athlete, being at the time a little overweight as well, I foun...

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