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[Please see map of Route through Great Britain below]<\/p>\n

[\/dica_divi_carouselitem][dica_divi_carouselitem title=”Perhaps Lake District?” sub_title=”Making their way north, they stopped briefly in the lake district to visit Bob’s childhood friend Alan Gordon.” button_url_new_window=”1″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]\"\"[\/dica_divi_carouselitem][dica_divi_carouselitem title=”Prosaic Rural Scene” sub_title=”Unknown location. This mature countryside was most like England. But it might well have been in Queensland, Australia. We will never know.” button_url_new_window=”1″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]\"\"[\/dica_divi_carouselitem][dica_divi_carouselitem title=”Industrial England” sub_title=”Bateman loved the quaint village feel of even industrialized towns.” button_url_new_window=”1″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]\"\"[\/dica_divi_carouselitem][dica_divi_carouselitem title=”The Highlands” sub_title=”The Rover Boys had immense fun trekking in Scotland. By incredible coincidence they ended up on the top of the same hill with Ann Dagg & her mother. Here Bristol tries capturing some ‘B roll’ on his new Bolex.” button_url_new_window=”1″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]\"\"[\/dica_divi_carouselitem][dica_divi_carouselitem title=”Sketching the Highlands” sub_title=”Bateman sketched and painted constantly. Here in the Highlands he attempts a larger work.” button_url_new_window=”1″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]\"\"[\/dica_divi_carouselitem][dica_divi_carouselitem title=”The Real Adventure Begins” sub_title=”Ultimately, Great Britian was not the objective of the Rover Boys adventure. Confident in the GT’s capabilities, they loaded her onto the Swedru frieghter in Liverpool on August 30th, 1957.” button_url_new_window=”1″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]\"\"[\/dica_divi_carouselitem][dica_divi_carouselitem title=”A Passage to Ghana” button_url_new_window=”1″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]\"\"[\/dica_divi_carouselitem][\/dica_divi_carousel][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/noroadforoldmen.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/England-map-718×1024.jpg” title_text=”England map” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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