Sailing Camp at Aldwark or Linton on Ouse was part of our first year programme. I guess it was designed to introduce us to new experiences and help us "grow". The Crown Inn at nearby Great Ouseburn helped us grow too, with it's fine Old Peculiar ale.
Thanks to Steve Jones and Angela Crawshaw for the pics. |
I remember on my weeks stay there that the accommodation was limited. Students slept upstairs in a dormitory with some blankets to divide men from women. Needless to say our slumbers were interupted by snoring and other bodily noises mainly coming from the male side of the dorm. More Sailing Camp memories welcome.
The recent photo, top right, shows that little has changed at Aldwark Toll Bridge. |
Mick Balmer was an Acland resident in 1974-75 and has kindly sent the above pic of him and Jerry on Acland Steps. The picture to the right is the same guys in 2008. I remember they had a tandem painted in Sunderland colours which they were very proud of. Mick recalls:-
We really did bring the tandem (red white & black) affectionately known as 'Stokoe' down from God's own country. Hitched up and then rode it back. |
I remember that we decided that a triumphal downhill arrival was de rigeur, so came via Cow & Calf and Dick Hudson's rather than slogging up Park Road!! Also the old Sturmey Archer gear cable snapped at Yarm so we did the rest of the journey in a useless mid gear, hopeless down hill and impossible up!! It then featured in several events, curry races against the minibus to the Kash, Rag day as a nag with Jerry as Damsel and me as heroic Knight, and as transport for the two of us to a union fancy dress do as the Bay City Vampires!!!! |
