by Bob King | Apr 15, 2021 | Adventure Training Centre Days
This final set of memories from the Adventure Centre days is again provided by Martin Dunning and I am very grateful to have had the chance to meet Martin on the Island a few days ago along with a number of other Adventure Centre Islanders who sent in their memories...
by Bob King | Apr 1, 2021 | Adventure Training Centre Days
This week is another bunch of memories from 1979 to 1981 from Martin Dunning who was a climbing instructor at the time. Martin provided so many good stories so there’ll be more from him next week. I was 22 when I went to work on Drake’s Island in April 1979. A friend...
by Bob King | Mar 26, 2021 | Adventure Training Centre Days, Uncategorized
Both Ken Corish and Martin Dunning started work on the Island in 1979 as instructors, Ken as an Assistant Marine Biologist and Martin as a climbing instructor. There were two ways of getting a job on the Island, replying to an advert or through someone you knew. Ken...
by Bob King | Mar 18, 2021 | Adventure Training Centre Days
President John Frederick Kennedy (JFK as he was more usually known) of the USA was assassinated in 1961. The year before his wife Jackie gave birth to their son John Frederick Kennedy Jr who was known as JFK Jr. In 1971 JFK Jr with his cousin Anthony Ridiziwill stayed...
by Bob King | Mar 12, 2021 | Adventure Training Centre Days
Carrying on from last week here are some memories, this time of some of the instructors and staff. The Island developed over the years to accommodate more students and staff so those on the Island at the start of the Adventure Centre would have had fewer students,...
by Bob King | Mar 3, 2021 | Adventure Training Centre Days
The first groups to stay on the Island were the Casemateers. These were local youth clubs who rented out one of the Casemates, hence the name. They paid rent, which was the first income for the Drake’s Island Committee, but also helped out with clearing the Island....
