We have six UK residential centres all located in areas of outstanding natural beauty.
Lake District
Snowdonia
The Highlands
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…
In 1972 at the age of fifteen I attended the Moray Sea School Outward Bound. What I learnt during that outstanding character building experience undoubtedly…
I was about 18 when I went to the Outward Bound School. Two of us apprentice lads were picked out of about 150 apprentices that worked at my firm of J&E Halls…
After my OB Adult Challenge (late 80's, Ullswater, the 'Bug Course' it was called, because of the horrid intestinal problems we all had) I went back to the…
