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My story goes back before I went to Outward Bound but it is very relevant.At the age of three I was evacuated from central London when the Blitz started. My…
Excerpts from John Taylor’s LogbookMonday May 9thPT and shower at 6.30. Pretty good breakfast of bacon and tomatoes. Went down to jetty and started on the 1and…
At 18 working in London for Post Office Telecommunications, I was asked to go on a course at Moray Sea School lasting 4 weeks. As I came from Aberdeen, this…
Several years ago I was serving in the military, unrelated to my job and for recreational reasons only, I was a qualified Mountain Leader (ML(S) [Tywyn, Wales]…
On reflection this was probably the most formative period of my youth I recall so much about the new things we did . Learning to handle the cutter (as a…
I found myself one of 126 boys.aged16-19, who came from all over the British Isle and represented a fair cross section of all social levels. The school…
I was on course U18 at Ullswater in 1956 aged 16. I was in Whymper patrol under George Fisher who ran the Keswick Mountain rescue team. While we were there the…
I suppose the strongest memory I have of my time with Outward Bound, Ullswater, in the winter of 1961 was the closing entertainment each patrol was asked to…
As a callow 18 year old emerging from public school, it was immensely instructive to mix with other, older individuals from different backgrounds, culminating…
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Outward Bound Course E281; Nansen Patrol: We were the most disparate and desperate, rag-tag bunch of individuals as has ever likely been lumped together in an…
As a 17 year old Police Cadet I was sent by the Devon Constabulary to the Aberdovey sea School held between 10 Oct -4 Nov 1964. I still have my personal log…
