We have six UK residential centres all located in areas of outstanding natural beauty.
Lake District
Snowdonia
The Highlands
Phillip Millward, Wilson Patrol, Eskdale. Course E155 Sep 6- Oct 2 1965.I well remember the first evening, all waiting patiently in a cordial manner in the…
In November-December 1960 I visited the Outward Bound school in Eskdale. It was a senior course and I participated in the Nansen watch.From the Netherlands it…
It was a summer evening in 1986 when I arrived at Loch Eil after a very, very long, lonely train journey from Devon as a timid 18-year-old. I can still…
I attended the Outward Bound Sea School in Aberdovey in October 1953, course no 133, prior to joining Alfred Holt as a Midshipman. I served with Blue Funnel…
Having been born in 1941, I am the same vintage as the Outward Bound Sea School at Aberdovey, which I attended in 1961. At 20, I was one of the older people on…
As I start to write today (19.55. 25.03.2017) I look back to my OBSS Aberdovey Log, exactly 60 years ago. “We had a huge Supper at 20.00 hrs. I then turned in…
Aged eighteen, in October 1957, I spent a month on an Outward Bound course at Eskdale Green which proved to be one of the most influential and enabling…
This was all part of working at ICI Dulux Paints in Slough. Two of us selected to go to the YMCA camp on the western shore of Lake Windermere that summer. The…
I went to Moray in 1972 as part of my management development at IBM in Croydon, Surrey. It was an exciting and daunting experience. Scotland in the middle of…
I attended O.B.S.S Aberdovey in 1951 (Oct-Nov. I believe two names I can remember were the surnames Fuller & Gould. We climbed Cader Idris as a group of about…
OUTWARD BOUND.The “Outward Bound” Sea School at Aberdovey in Wales was established in 1941by two remarkable men, Kurt Hahn and Lawrence Holt. The former was…
I was sent to Ullswater as part of my Police Cadet training and spent a wonderful month there from the end of August to the end of September. Apart form all…
