David Beeby has provided a list from his records of volunteers at the Plattenhof camps he attended between 1964 and 67. Continue reading →
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St Peter camp I, 1967
The following is a report from 1967, written by Peter Watson about a camp at St Peter in summer of that year.
For the first time for several years the reservoir by the Plattenhof, high up in the Black Forest 20 miles from Freiberg, was warm. The two weeks of hot sunshine, marred only by some violent but short-lived thunderstorms meant that swimming costumes were the dress of the day, With continuous sunshine, activities were easy to plan, and fo fourteen days a team of 12 students gave 37 children (13 girls and 24 boys) a holiday which students and children alike will long remember. Continue reading →
‘England hat gewonnen!’
Marjorie (Marj) Bannister, Homerton, CHV 1966, commenting on October 2016 update
First of all, apologies for taking so long to reply to the article I read in the Homertonian magazine last summer. It was good to see those photos but I think you’ll find that one has been labelled incorrectly – I am the one in the middle of the three in the photo with the caption ‘Judi Venner walks in the woods with two children’!!
Despite pretty miserable weather for the duration of our time in the Black Forest in August 1966, we had an interesting time. The things that stick out most in my mind are: Continue reading →
October 2016 update
By Peter Watson
In the months since the last update we have passed an exciting milestone – more than 500 people have now visited this website, from as far afield as the US, Canada and Brazil, across Europe and of course the UK. A clear pattern is emerging of spikes in readership after articles appearing in alumni magazines. While we have been working to alert college magazines to our project, some colleges will only run articles if they are submitted by former members of that college – so if you are in touch with any friends from colleges we haven’t yet managed to alert, do please let them know in case they are willing to assist. Five hundred is a great number but there may be many hundreds more who haven’t yet heard about the archive, and who may wish to contribute, or just to enjoy reading about it. Spread the word!
Over the summer we received two responses to the Homertonian magazine letter, from Barbara Curry (nee Kay) and Jane Bramhill, who took part in different camps in the 70s. Their contributions can be read here and here. More recently, Angus Tulloch (Clare) got in touch with memories of camps he attended in Austria and near Leeds, and fundraising.
Gordon Edwards and I have both sent round-robin emails to lists of contacts gathered through this project. If you would like to receive an occasional message to keep up with the project then please email via this link with your details.
‘We loved it all and probably grew up a bit too’
Barbara Curry, nee Kay (Homerton 1968-71, Newnham 1971-72) (from emails received 1 and 18 September 2016)
I was on the student staff for at least 3 of the camps and co-leader for one. Memories are flooding back! I enjoyed the camps very much indeed, and found my native German a useful asset with the children and in episodes like the one below:
Barbara Curry (nee Kay) gallery
A set of images from two camps – Black Forest 1970 and Langenburg 1971.
It ‘showed what a difference people can make’
Jane A. Bramhill (from emails sent on 8 and 9 August 2016)
I was at Homerton from ’73-76, am now Head of Science / Dean of Students at the International School of Indiana, USA, and have just received July’s ‘Homertonian’ and read the article about CRI.
Although studying Biology and Chemistry, I spoke fluent German and volunteered to help with a camp in Germany in the summer of 1974. Continue reading →
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