Wholehope Cottage Youth Hostel - Draft compilation edited by Trevor Hipkin. Were you there, do you have a piece of this story to tell? This is work in progress and will change as people send me more information and images. Keep coming back to see the latest additions, and remember to click on 'view' then 'refresh' at the top LH side of the page, to ensure that you're looking at the latest version.Folk have been suggesting for some time that it would be a good idea to pull the various Wholehope pieces together into some sort of compilation - so here it is! Apart from the stories and companionship of the times, the tales of what happened in later life to these pioneers would fill several books; some of them travelled the globe and settled permanently in foreign climes, others stayed closer to home and made names for themselves in their chosen professions and in civic life. The linking threads were a thirst for adventure and a curiosity, something picked up by Alistair Borthwick in the closing paragraph of his classic outdoors book 'Always a little further' (Diadem Press 1939)
'And so it is, to a greater or lesser degree, with the hikers and cyclists, for how else can be explained the miles which spin behind wheels and crawl from dusty shoes? Something of value is on the roads and hills, and thousands set out each Saturday to find it. Each one sees it differently. I have only described what I have found'
Note from Trevor
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