We have six UK residential centres all located in areas of outstanding natural beauty.
Lake District
Snowdonia
The Highlands
Recently, whilst on holiday in Wales, we decided to see if the Outward Bound School, as I knew it, was still in Aberdovey. I had been on Course 151 which ran…
To be accepted as a Midshipman with Alfred Holt & Coof Liverpool I had to successfully complete an Outward Bound Course.I was awarded an 'Honours' Badge with a…
Below are extracts from my original Outward Bound diary (my log book) written when I was 15 years old, along with a copy of my Patrol photograph (I was in…
I attended the Loch Eil Centre near Fort William from the 1st to the 26th August 1977, with 9 other MOD apprentices from all over the UK to form the 'Macdonald…
I was at Eskdale during April to May 75, sent there as a police cadet by my force. I hated it. We were housed in a snakepit, something like six or nine lads in…
A month long course from the middle of January to the middle of February, as part of my Junior Fireman Apprenticeship with Hampshire Fire Brigade. Early…
This past week I found a small document titled an 'Excess Ticket'.It was issued to me on Sunday 29th Nov 1958 by the railway Station Master in Perth,…
I will tell my story as German participant 5 years after the end of a terrible war i f you will find me in your archive. My name changed at that time, so you…
I was planning to train in marine navigation with an apprenticeship and was advised that completing an Outward Bound course would be a good addition to have in…
As it's almost 50 years since I attended outward bound and Tony Titley became the first person to die on a course, I felt it would be an appropriate time to…
Managed to find a way of uploading the other picture.
The photograph of the Rodney Watch. The other is submitted separately.Aberdovey – 31st January 1970 to 26th February 1970.Watch Officers: Captain S Hayler and…