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Tag: Boat Builders

Oct 25, 2025Oct 24, 2025HTBS

Bill’s Last Word

Oct 23, 2025Oct 23, 2025HTBS

Drowning In Honey I: The Gondola Builders of San Trovaso

Oct 21, 2025Oct 21, 2025HTBS

Young Bill and Old Bill Remembered

Sep 25, 2025Sep 27, 2025HTBS

Bill Colley: The Last of a Breed

Aug 2, 2025Aug 1, 2025HTBS

20 Years of Swift: Making Rowing Accessible for All

Jul 12, 2025Jul 12, 2025HTBS

Missing a George Sims’s Label

Apr 12, 2025Apr 14, 2025HTBS

Hadaway Harry: Lessons of History, Barriers to Access and the Future of British Rowing – Part I

Feb 4, 2025Feb 3, 2025HTBS

Frenchy A. Johnson – Part II: Ode to an Oarsman

Jan 8, 2025Jan 7, 2025HTBS

The Most Magnificent Rowing Book

Dec 27, 2024Dec 26, 2024HTBS

Richard Phelps: In The Chair 

Aug 21, 2024Aug 20, 2024HTBS

Pocock Plaque Unveiling

Jun 14, 2024Jun 13, 2024HTBS

Pocock Plaque Approved

May 28, 2024Jun 7, 2024HTBS

Clive Of The Lea

Mar 26, 2024Mar 25, 2024HTBS

Building a Winning Blue Boat in 1907

Feb 19, 2024Feb 18, 2024HTBS

Building A Boat For The Boys

Dec 9, 2023Dec 8, 2023HTBS

HOSR December Story Hour: Builder of Boats and the Boys: A Pocock Legacy

Dec 6, 2023Dec 6, 2023HTBS

Wyld About Boats

Nov 15, 2022Nov 18, 2023HTBS

Pocock 8: Searching for Your You of You’s…

Jul 1, 2022Jun 30, 2022HTBS

The Naulahka Story

May 7, 2022May 6, 2022HTBS

The Feathers: A Forgotten Centre of Early British Rowing. Part III: Decline

Apr 25, 2022Apr 26, 2025HTBS

John Hawks Clasper, His Father’s Son. Part II: The Innovative Boat Builder

Apr 19, 2022Apr 24, 2022HTBS

John Hawks Clasper, His Father’s Son. Part I: The Professional Oarsman

Mar 29, 2022Nov 18, 2023HTBS

Rowing Boeing

Mar 15, 2022Mar 14, 2022HTBS

Hadaway Harry Will Return

Mar 14, 2022Mar 13, 2022HTBS

Invention: One Mother (Necessity) But Many Fathers

Mar 6, 2022Mar 6, 2022HTBS

“Nero” at Richmond upon Thames

Feb 24, 2022Nov 18, 2023HTBS

Messing about on the River

Feb 17, 2022Feb 16, 2022HTBS

It’s a Great Art

Feb 16, 2022Nov 18, 2023HTBS

The Wisdom of Pocock

Feb 15, 2022Feb 14, 2022HTBS

More Pieces of Eight

Jan 25, 2022Jan 25, 2022HTBS

Pieces of Eight

Jan 15, 2022Jan 14, 2022HTBS

English Boatbuilders are Building Boats for “The Boys” Movie

Jan 4, 2022Jan 4, 2022HTBS

A Henley Programme from the Past

Dec 16, 2021Dec 15, 2021HTBS

East is East – Or is He?

Mar 10, 2021Mar 9, 2021HTBS

Aquatic Treasures Of The British Museum

Sep 8, 2020Sep 8, 2020HTBS

The Thames Monsters and the Model T Boats

Aug 4, 2020Aug 3, 2020HTBS

These Old Boats

Nov 18, 2019Nov 18, 2019HTBS

Back To The Futures

Jul 16, 2019Jul 16, 2019HTBS

Hooray Henley

Mar 15, 2019Mar 15, 2019HTBS

RRM@21 – 10: Singular Boats

Oct 27, 2018Oct 26, 2018HTBS

Rainer Empacher R.I.P.

Jul 20, 2018Jul 19, 2018HTBS

Malta BC’s Eight Model

Jul 2, 2018Jul 3, 2018HTBS

462 Boats and Counting

Apr 7, 2018Apr 6, 2018HTBS

Ian Whitehead: The Tyne’s Role in the Development of the Racing Shell

Mar 16, 2018Mar 15, 2018HTBS

Lisa Taylor: Lucy Pocock Stillwell – A Woman in a Waterman’s World?

Jan 23, 2018Jan 23, 2018HTBS

Boat Builders’ Shell Models

Jan 10, 2018Jan 10, 2018HTBS

The Biffens of Hammersmith – Builders of Boats Big and Small

Oct 6, 2017Nov 6, 2017HTBS

Kai Stürmann – A Man who Suffers from the ‘Wheels and Keels Disease’

Aug 18, 2017Aug 15, 2017HTBS

The Radleys are now in America

Jun 2, 2017Jun 2, 2017HTBS

This is a Thames Wherry

Apr 7, 2017Apr 6, 2017HTBS

“J. Hopper” is Donated to the River and Rowing Museum

Dec 10, 2016Dec 9, 2016HTBS

Peter Willis: Boatman and Boat Builder to King’s, 1934 -2016

Nov 1, 2016Oct 31, 2016HTBS

Richmond-upon-Thames, Part II: 64 years with Bill Colley

Oct 31, 2016Nov 7, 2016HTBS

Richmond-upon-Thames, Part I: A Reminder of the Golden Age of Boating

Oct 12, 2016Oct 11, 2016HTBS

The Mystery Sculler

Aug 3, 2016Aug 2, 2016HTBS

Borne by Liquid History, Part II

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