Bryden Allen

I recently came across the website of Bryden Allen http://www.brydenallen.com
He is an Australian based climber but he was in the UK in
the 1980’s. After climbing with the Oxford University
Mountaineering Club, he came out with the Castle for a couple
of years. Some older members may remember him. Anyway this
is what he says on the website:

“The OUMC was a good club. But by far the best club of all
was the Castle Mountaineering Club in Sheffield. It was
incredibly good. This club could produce a future program
for the coming 6 months with both mid-week meets (in the
evenings) and weekend meets (mostly days but sometimes
weekends) for every week. And almost all these meets took
place as planned. And the club had a small club hut at the
back of a pub where we all gathered together on Wednesday
nights (and there were climbs all over the hut). This club
meant that the two years Jane and I spent at Sheffield was
possibly the best two years of our lives. If only we could
establish clubs like this in Australia.”

Andy. 28/06/2015