We have six UK residential centres all located in areas of outstanding natural beauty.
Lake District
Snowdonia
The Highlands
I was a apprentice electrician with Alfred Holt Blue Funnel Line and was sent to Aberdovey in 1952. It was the first time I had been away on my own.Iwas…
I was nine years of age when the Second World War was declared in September 1939.Apart from watching air-raid shelters being built in our local park, and also…
Tonight I found your web-site and, for interest, enclose the attached five photographs (click link to view) which I took at the Outward Bound Moray Sea School…
Outward Bound Sea School - AberdoveyCourse 99 Sponsored by George Whitbread & Co. LtdOn a bright sunny spring morning in 1950 I was summoned into the office of…
I was invited to attend the Moray Sea School around 1967 by my then employers William Halley & Sons a well known Dundee Textile Manufacturer. The course was…
MEMORIES OF TEMPORARY INSTRUCTOR OF 50 YEARS AGOIn 1957 I was a 23 year old RAF Navigator when I first responded to an invitation to personnel of the armed…
I was sent by my school as I was struggling with my mental health & with life generally as a 17 year old. The experience was transformational - I found my…
I attended the centre at Eskdale from Febuary 28th to March 25th 1961 as part of Wilson patrol i was 17 years of age. I do not remember any of the other…
I was ajudged to be the best apprentice of the year at my place of work, Coneygre Foundry, Tipton in 1955 and my prize was a month at OBSSAlthough as a child,…
Hi everybody i attended aberdovey 1977, was part of huntmade great friends, loved doing the solo, wharf jump & obstacle course, spectacular views in welsh…
I was one of the members of Aberdovey Sea School during the 1963 course 231 during July / August & I was a member of Drake Watch. As it was a long time ago and…
I went to Rhowniar Outward Bound Girls School the last week of January, first two weeks of February 1968. The biggest task was trying to get to sleep on the…
