Outward Bound Trust calling for your memories
WERE you on an Outward Bound course between 1941 and present day? If so, the organisation is keen for you to share your memories on its website. Obviously, I'd also love it if you share them on here too, either by emailing me at laura.davis@liverpool.com or by using the comments section below.
Here are a few words from Nick Barrett, chief executive of The Outward Bound Trust...
We want to place the different generations of Outward Bounders in the same "room" online and give them the chance to share their stories.
For nearly 70 years generations of young people have been having the same intense Outward Bound experience and we want to hear about it. The person who participated in an Outward Bound course in, say 1952, had the same powerful experience as the person taking a course this week.
Over the decades the mountains have been just as daunting, the weather just as unpredictable and the water just as icy. At the same time, the trials, the triumphs, the highs, the lows and above all, the learning, have been equally powerful.
There are a million stories of personal growth, adventure and fulfilment waiting to be told and shared.
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Laura Davis - Laura Davis is the Liverpool Daily Post's Arts Editor and 02 Digital Journalist of the Year 2009, which is in a large part due to this blog. She has a long-standing interest in local history and is keen to learn more about your own memories or discoveries about the history of Liverpool and the surrounding area.
The 'black & white' photo accompanying the personal story, is of I believe, Merkle Patrol circa May/June '52. I also was on that course, I was patrol leader appointed by our instructor ( an ex army Captain whose name escapes me at present )
But why is the article in a foreign language ?
Hi now at the age of 57 i remember my one month stay at the aberdovey outward bound school.It was a part of my apprentiship programme from British Steel in Workington Cumbria.I can say without any doubt it shaped the rest of my life.The challenges we faced and the confidence it left imprinted on my life i just cant describe in words.
Only throughout my life i have many a time reflected on my achievements gained at Aberdovey.
From the guy who couldn`t swim to be the last one out of the pool on the drownproofing test to the guy who was frieghtend of hieghts who abseiled 200 foot down a slate mine in the pitch dark.Also the funny times when practising our canoe escape i remember the tough guy who wouldnt be told by the instructor he was to near a sandbank in the estuary only to find when his canoe rolled over he got his head stuck in the sand.
Finally the feeling of coming home fitter than i have ever been since.
May it carry on for ever.