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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

Aug 2, 2025Aug 1, 2025HTBS

20 Years of Swift: Making Rowing Accessible for All

Apr 12, 2025Apr 14, 2025HTBS

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

Mar 24, 2025Mar 23, 2025HTBS

An Experimental Archaeology Project: The Reconstruction of a Merovingian Boat

Jan 8, 2025Jan 7, 2025HTBS

The Most Magnificent Rowing Book

Sep 7, 2024Sep 7, 2024HTBS

Stan Pocock Rowing Center Dedication

Jun 14, 2024Jun 13, 2024HTBS

Pocock Plaque Approved

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

Oct 6, 2023Oct 5, 2023HTBS

Pocock Plaquery

Jan 10, 2023Jan 10, 2023HTBS

Restoration of the Burk and Pocock Single

Nov 15, 2022Nov 18, 2023HTBS

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

Sep 7, 2022Sep 6, 2022HTBS

Highly Rated: The 1936 Tokyo Imperial University Eight

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 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

May 22, 2021May 21, 2021HTBS

Two for One

Mar 10, 2021Mar 9, 2021HTBS

Aquatic Treasures Of The British Museum

Feb 26, 2021Feb 25, 2021HTBS

Stuck in the Toffs’ Pigeon Hole

Sep 8, 2020Sep 8, 2020HTBS

The Thames Monsters and the Model T Boats

Mar 15, 2019Mar 15, 2019HTBS

RRM@21 – 10: Singular Boats

Nov 3, 2018Nov 3, 2018HTBS

New Book: On the Evolution of Rowing Boats

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’

Apr 7, 2017Apr 6, 2017HTBS

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

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

Mar 22, 2016Mar 22, 2016HTBS

Breeding Racehorses

Mar 5, 2016Mar 5, 2016HTBS

A Reappraisal of the Importance of the River Lea

Jan 22, 2016Jan 22, 2016HTBS

Tribute to Darryl Strickler

Jan 6, 2016Jan 6, 2016HTBS

1971: When Rowers Rowed WOOD

Nov 17, 2015Nov 16, 2015HTBS

Das Boot

Sep 17, 2015Dec 24, 2016HTBS

The Mystery with the Sid Radley-built “J. Hopper”

Aug 18, 2015Aug 17, 2015HTBS

Laurie Radley’s Memories of River Lea and UK Rowing and Boatbuilding, in the early 1900s to World War II

Jul 30, 2015Jul 29, 2015HTBS

Great-Aunt Phoebe Radley: A Forgotten Pioneer of Women’s Competitive Rowing

May 25, 2015May 24, 2015HTBS

Boat Builder and Oar Maker G.F. Winter’s Obituary 1910

Mar 16, 2015Mar 15, 2015HTBS

The Radleys of the Lea

Jan 7, 2015Jan 7, 2015HTBS

Where Boats Grow On Trees

Dec 17, 2014Dec 17, 2014HTBS

Vale Stanley Richard Pocock

Feb 27, 2014Apr 26, 2014HTBS

Sharing History about Swaddle and Winship

Jan 13, 2014Apr 26, 2014HTBS

About Swaddle & Winship

Apr 2, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

From Pine To Plastic

Jan 4, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

The Passing of a Gentleman

Jul 22, 2012Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Plying The Oars On The Mystic River

May 16, 2011Apr 25, 2014Ellen

The Putney Embankment – London’s ‘Boathouse Row’, Part 3

Apr 21, 2011Apr 25, 2014Ellen

Fascinating Article!

Feb 14, 2011Apr 25, 2014Ellen

George Sims Was The Winner In 1947

Sep 1, 2010Apr 25, 2014Ellen

Pocock Newsletter

Jul 20, 2010Apr 25, 2014Ellen

In The Spirit Of The Pococks

Jun 28, 2010Apr 25, 2014Ellen

On Practice Wherries

Jun 27, 2010Apr 25, 2014Ellen

Among Traditionalists And Inventors

Jun 24, 2010Apr 25, 2014Ellen

10 Top Events For Rowers At WBS

Jun 18, 2010Apr 25, 2014Ellen

The 19th Annual Wooden Boat Show

Jun 7, 2010Apr 25, 2014Ellen

John Gardner’s Legacy

Mar 15, 2010Apr 25, 2014Ellen

Boat Auction

Mar 5, 2010Apr 25, 2014Ellen

This Old Boat?

Nov 10, 2009Nov 10, 2009Ellen

Maine Built Whitehall

Nov 8, 2009Apr 25, 2014Ellen

The Life-Boat

Oct 11, 2009Apr 25, 2014Ellen

Dick’s Red Coat

Jun 6, 2009Apr 25, 2014Ellen

With "Göta" on the Mystic River

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