First Orienteering Certificate Devilla 1971
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First Orienteering Certificate Devilla 1971
After years of accumulating various minor awards such as badges and certificates I was quite thrilled to uncover what is probably my first orienteering award whilst clearing my father's attic. Scottish Orienteering Championships 1971 Junior Championships 2nd Junior Men's Team (Devilla Sep 1971). When you have orienteered on and off for 40 years it is easy to take these little things for granted but maybe they really do mean something. I know I had done events a couple of years earlier (no idea where or when exactly) but as an M55 I was genuinely impressed to unearth something from the very distant past! Do others retain their ancient certificates and who was the team that beat us (I would have been running for Dollar Academy)? Do certificates matter?
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Re: First Orienteering Certificate Devilla 1971
I have a small file of maps from when I ran with Menston St Johns Guy 1909 Scout Troup in the period 1969 to 1971. all are black and white and most were Aire events. Think they include the 1970 British junior champs when I was an M15 boy.
Actualy won a night event on Ilkley moor in those days. Good memories
Actualy won a night event on Ilkley moor in those days. Good memories
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forgot to say that I won some book tokens. still have the letter that arrived a few nmonths later congratulating me on my win and including the prize. Pity no such incentives now
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I've got a certificate for winning the 'International Championships C Course' 2.7 km at Marlow Common in 1976 designed produced and presented by organiser Charlie Turner then of RUOC (now SLOW) - a positive work of art. It was actually a very low key training event and Charlie was taking the Mickey big time.
If you read this, Charlie - I've still got it - lovingly preserved
If you read this, Charlie - I've still got it - lovingly preserved
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I received my fist cetificate for a competition I didn't know I had entered. At my very first Northern Champs in 1977 in Kershope I was apparently in the winning team in the inter Regional Championships - hardly surprising that it was dropped from the calendar after that.
Incidentally to show how poor inter regional communication was at aound that time BL had a badge event in Kershope on the same day as RR had one in Newcastleton Forest. Problem was they both had the identical car park
Incidentally to show how poor inter regional communication was at aound that time BL had a badge event in Kershope on the same day as RR had one in Newcastleton Forest. Problem was they both had the identical car park
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I have all my maps from 1974. Precious few certificates though - my first one was for SOL 2008 M45B.
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I was the proud winner of "best novice orienteer" at Hensol Forest on 29th Jan 1978, and was presented with a book by Tony Walker and it was signed by Tony. Written by Tony and Jim Rand.
It is still in my bookcase. First illustration is "checking the control code"...hmmm 32 years later and I still get that wrong!!!
Beards seem to be very fashionable on the 70's..and the women were lookng mighty fine too....skimming through the topics and exercises in the book all are still relevant today, time to dust it down again.
Interesting Rules then - 3.1 Eligibility - A competitor shall not be allowed to take part in more than 3 events in the national fixture list without becoming a member of B.O.F.
Where did that rule go?
It is still in my bookcase. First illustration is "checking the control code"...hmmm 32 years later and I still get that wrong!!!
Beards seem to be very fashionable on the 70's..and the women were lookng mighty fine too....skimming through the topics and exercises in the book all are still relevant today, time to dust it down again.
Interesting Rules then - 3.1 Eligibility - A competitor shall not be allowed to take part in more than 3 events in the national fixture list without becoming a member of B.O.F.
Where did that rule go?
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This prompted me to look through my Orienteering by John Disley book (acquired sometime more recently but published 1967). Age classes Senior Men and Women 19 years old and over and Veteran Men/Women 35 years old and over. It would simplify things in planning events (currently working on 28 variations for next year's Northern Championships). Lack of beards in the photos but there is "a girl competitor, her hair protected from tree branches, setting her map at a control point". Also "two boys work out their salvation during a London Federation of Boys' Club race".
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Freefall wrote:(I would have been running for Dollar Academy)? Do certificates matter?
Here in a fair green valley, beneath the sheltering hills,
The old grey school of Dollar,
Her ceasless task fulfills....
And what about Devon Valley Orienteers, Ochils OC etc etc ?
Go orienteering in Lithuania......... best in the world:)
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I am a sad person - my certificates and high-quality pennants from the early days are all up on the walls around me (cheaper than wallpaper or paint. And yes, I can beat what's gone before, and funnily enough, the earliest pennant is also from Devilla - Scottish Midlands Championships, 2nd Pair, Junior Men in 1966 - that's age 14 - or possibly 13 as the Midlands tended to be in March - in the under-18s, running with Reg Czudek for Dunfermline High School - juniors were all school based in those days - the teacher's strike (early 70's?) put a stop to all that and for many other sports. Every year at the Scottish Champs I go and hunt out the old Junior Men trophy to make sure my name is still there - 1969 - and my brother's who won it a few years earlier.
I was a founder member of Ochils OC - that didn't last too long. The reason it was set up was for those who had left school but didn't go to Uni or those who left Uni early had no clubs to join so we set one up. By chance, everyone in it at the start was a former Scottish Junior Champion - of course at that age, starting out in life, with no individual transport and moving away as we found work the club didn't last long.
Ah, memories.
I was a founder member of Ochils OC - that didn't last too long. The reason it was set up was for those who had left school but didn't go to Uni or those who left Uni early had no clubs to join so we set one up. By chance, everyone in it at the start was a former Scottish Junior Champion - of course at that age, starting out in life, with no individual transport and moving away as we found work the club didn't last long.
Ah, memories.
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A lot of blasts from the past - surely this forum isn't full of fogeys too?
Off topic, do any of you ex-Dollarites recall a useless Latin master called Winzer who left our place in ~1955 and went there - or had he been asked to move on again?
Off topic, do any of you ex-Dollarites recall a useless Latin master called Winzer who left our place in ~1955 and went there - or had he been asked to move on again?
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We had a different useless Latin teacher but the ones I remember best were Jock Milne and Cocky Strachan, fearsome French teachers. I planned a number of orienteering events in the early 70s on what was called Dollar Bank if I recall. As a member of the CCF I looked after the map store (early signs of carto obsession) and had access to what I needed.
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Going through my loft the other day, I found a copy of The Orienteer magazine from October 1976, with all the World Championships results and pictures from Darnaway and Culbin. I've put the map (scale 1:20,000) and some pics on my blog.
This was the event that first got me into orienteering!
This was the event that first got me into orienteering!
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I've just added some more 1976 pages to my blog.
The Model Event was at Cawdor Wood, the Individual Event at Darnaway and the Relays in Culbin.
The Model Event was at Cawdor Wood, the Individual Event at Darnaway and the Relays in Culbin.
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I don't have early certificates but I do have a file of mid 60s O maps inherited from Hew Fraser, who was at Dollar but who sadly died in 2002.
The first of these is from the Scottish Schools Champs in March 65 at .....Devilla.
The first with any results attached is from Dec 65: Dollar Academy v Falkirk Tech College v Falkirk Police Cadets at Howierig Wood, Falkirk. Apparently the Dollar team of S. Adamson, H. Fraser, R. Allan, L. Scott, G.Ross, (presumably not the G. Ross), and A. Smith won.
Plenty more where they came from, including very early maps of such well loved O areas as Glentress, Cardona, Pitmeddan, Glendevon, Wauchope, Achray and Yair Hill
The first of these is from the Scottish Schools Champs in March 65 at .....Devilla.
The first with any results attached is from Dec 65: Dollar Academy v Falkirk Tech College v Falkirk Police Cadets at Howierig Wood, Falkirk. Apparently the Dollar team of S. Adamson, H. Fraser, R. Allan, L. Scott, G.Ross, (presumably not the G. Ross), and A. Smith won.
Plenty more where they came from, including very early maps of such well loved O areas as Glentress, Cardona, Pitmeddan, Glendevon, Wauchope, Achray and Yair Hill
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