by Bob King | Oct 30, 2020 | Adventure Training Centre Days
Things didn’t get any better throughout the 1980’s. By 1981 the Centre had £100,000 in interest free loans and was losing money year on year. There were increasing disagreements between the various committees, the Warden and the executive committee about how to run...
by Bob King | Oct 23, 2020 | Adventure Training Centre Days
The first years of the 1970’s were the usual mixture of success and setbacks for any volunteer organisation running a charitable cause. The committee, which was volunteer and unpaid, is perhaps best described as firefighting one issue after another. The main committee...
by Bob King | Oct 14, 2020 | Adventure Training Centre Days
The first activity of note on the Island was in 1961 when a group of 120 Plymouth Baptists made a pilgrimage to the Island and held a service in the memory of Abraham Cheare, a local Baptist Minister who was imprisoned on the Island in 1665 for his beliefs and died...
by Bob King | Oct 1, 2020 | Post WWW2
With the end of the War life slowly began to change. The Japanese surrendered on Aug 15 1945 and the day after restrictions on private boats were lifted and they were now allowed to use the Sound without the need for a permit. There was a need to raise money to care...
by Bob King | Sep 23, 2020 | World War Two
The Germans had used what were possibly tourist photographs to identify the defences on the Island back in 1938 and as international tension increased in 1939 the British Government finally realised war with Germany was becoming a distinct probability. The jetty on...
