We have six UK residential centres all located in areas of outstanding natural beauty.
Lake District
Snowdonia
The Highlands
I think it was about Easter of 1967 when I attended the Outward Bound school, Eskdale Green. At the time I was a Fire Brigade cadet (Junior Fireman) in…
This was January 1982 and if you remember one of the coldest winters on record.The train from Glasgow to Fortwilliam, which was an evening journey on a Sunday…
It was the coldest february in 1982 for several years, on the train journey from Glasgow to the centre at Loch Eil we had to open our suitcases and put on…
I owe your school so much. 2 years after I attended I emigrted to Canada and joined the Fur trade with the Hudson's Bay Company. OBT taught me self reliance…
Ive added several more photos which i hope will be viewed by my Jellicoe colleguesI recall a version of the survival technique was called drownproofing at that…
R D Harris Jellicoe Watch Sept 20 1966I was not aware at the time of the profound effect my time at Aberdovey would have on the rest of my life .Suffice to…
In 1962 I attended 3 OB schools Devon, Eskdale , and Moray. I was the only American student on those course and was treated in the most friendly and and…
As one of the " under privileged kids " from Glasgow, I was sent by my school, I think because my teachers saw something in me that I didn't. I was also very…
As a apprentice fitter, turner I was asked by my boss, would you like to go to an outward bound course in Ullswater, I said yes , I was one of five children…
I was sent by lever brothers in June 1964,I was 18.i was put into wYimpeR patrol.mr Byfleet was my instructor we had to run Dow n to the lake and jump in and…
I've been back to Aberdovey today during a valedictory tour of the UK from Australia where I live in a small South Australian town which itself used to be the…
Hello. Memories has stuck with me all these years ago. I was an 18 year old apprentice engineer at Clyde Alloy Works in Motherwell when my Forman offered me…
