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Your Outward Bound Stories

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Colin Usher - Ullswater, The Lake District, 1955

29 January 13

Memories of Outward Bound. Fifty-seven years have now passed since I attended O...

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Peter Cooke - Aberdovey, Wales, 1949

18 January 13

I left school at the age of 14 for employment with Accles and Pollock Ltd., tube...

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James Baker - Aberdovey, Wales, 1955

9 January 13

We were sorting some old photo albums and I found my Personal Log Book, written ...

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Jim Norman - Ullswater, The Lake District, 1963

6 January 13

My favourite moment was in 1963 being offered a job as a temporary instructor at...

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George Green - Aberdovey, Wales, 1952

5 January 13

I was a apprentice electrician with Alfred Holt Blue Funnel Line and was sent to...

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John Rayner - Ullswater, The Lake District, 1976

5 January 13

I attended 9 or 10 OB courses starting with UP12 in 1976 - mostly at Ullswater, ...

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Steve Humm - Eskdale, The Lake District, 1985

2 January 13

Eskdale Outward Bound January 1985 I attended Eskdale Outward Bound Mountain Sc...

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Michael Thurman - Aberdovey, Wales, 1962

1 January 13

As I was too young at the time to attend Warsash School of Navigation, they aske...

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Richard (Dick) Playford - Ullswater, The Lake District, 1962

10 December 12

This is my third submission but I believe I now have it cracked. How do these da...

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