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Youth hostelling with the school.

G G Jean

G G Jean

Brummy Wench.
Did any of you do this with your school palls or go anywhere on holiday organised by your school. Love to here your experiences good or bad. Jean?.
 
Hiya Jean
Yes I had a very short time at Lozells Girls school.but they took us somewhere in Malvern we stayed at a Youth Hostel for a week..very basic and we had to do a lot of washing up but it was a great week..
 
Early 1970s my mate Terry,other staff and myself ran YHA trips for kids of Great Barr School which included...

Stow on the Wold
Shrewsbury
Wilderhope pre-modernisation
Bridges
Malvern
Ludlow

and others I cannot remember
 
Alan I have photo's somewhere inside Wilderhope Manor. We stayed at Bridges and I have photo's of that and other hostels. It was my Birthday a Wilderhope and we were sleeping in the loft part and did I have tricks played on me. Itching powder and fake spiders in my bed. Loved the week away even though my feet were covered in blisters. Jean.
 
Found these photo's out from when I went youth hostelling with Manor Park school. The first two were inside Wilderhope Manor on my 14th birthday. Two in Bridgenorth taking a rest and the last is Bridges Youth Hostel. Jean.
 
Three weeks at a bilingual camp at Vallouise in the French Alps in July 1956. Fantastic. As we crossed from Dover to Calais a choir that had sung at the Eisteddfod in Llangollen a few days previously started singing on the boat. Magic! We had a few days in Paris on the way there. We were with about fifteen girls from a school at Evreux in Normandy and there were about the same number of us from George Dixon's Girls. A poignant memory was the soldiers on the station platform in Paris saying goodbye to their girlfriends, wives and families as they set off for the Algerian war. Then off we went to the Alps, sitting up all night on the train. I'd love to hear from any one else who went on that camp organised by Mrs Fox our French teacher. It was a great opportunity. I've been back to Vallouise many times since then a watched it change from a remote mountain settlement to the tourist honey spot it is today. Google in Vallouise and Puy St Vincent and you'll see what I mean.
Janet
 
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