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Tag: Eton

Jun 23, 2025Jun 23, 2025HTBS

Eton: Jolly Floating Weather Part I, Preparation

Jun 17, 2025Oct 29, 2025HTBS

What The Blazers?

May 2, 2025May 18, 2025HTBS

Putney Embankment: From A Shed To A Row – Part I

Apr 21, 2025Apr 21, 2025HTBS

Photo Essay 3: Vintage Sheet Music Covers

Mar 4, 2025Mar 3, 2025HTBS

Rhythm and Feuds

Feb 25, 2025Feb 25, 2025HTBS

A Coach, a Don, an Oarsman, a Headmaster, an MI6 Agent, a Frogman, and a Traitor

Sep 16, 2024Sep 15, 2024HTBS

George Pocock: Local Boy Made Good

Aug 21, 2024Aug 20, 2024HTBS

Pocock Plaque Unveiling

Jul 26, 2024Jul 26, 2024HTBS

The Legend Of The Eight

Jul 6, 2024Jul 15, 2024HTBS

Henley Friday 2024: Things Can Only Get Wetter*

Jun 15, 2024Jun 14, 2024HTBS

The Boat Race: Only 300 Days To Go

Jun 6, 2024Jun 5, 2024HTBS

D-Day+80: Remembering David Haig-Thomas

Apr 22, 2024Apr 21, 2024HTBS

Pocock’s Progress

Mar 25, 2024Mar 25, 2024HTBS

The Schools’ Head: A Lesson In Rowing

Mar 5, 2024Mar 5, 2024HTBS

Winston Churchill and his Family Rowing History

Feb 27, 2024Feb 27, 2024HTBS

Showing Some Class

Feb 9, 2024Feb 8, 2024HTBS

Henley’s Rowing Museum (Version 1.0)

Oct 16, 2023Oct 15, 2023HTBS

Alex Wilson Releases Second CD with Music Composed by F. S Kelly

Oct 6, 2023Oct 5, 2023HTBS

Pocock Plaquery

Jul 21, 2023Jul 20, 2023HTBS

Derek Malcolm: Infamous Cox, Famous Critic

Jul 19, 2023Jul 18, 2023HTBS

Henley 2023: Saturday Semis

Jul 17, 2023Jul 17, 2023HTBS

HRR 2023: Friday – Good For Some

Jun 26, 2023Jun 25, 2023HTBS

Henley Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

May 6, 2023May 6, 2023HTBS

Rowing: Still Not the Sport of Kings

May 4, 2023May 3, 2023HTBS

Pink Water at Westminster

Mar 14, 2023Mar 16, 2023HTBS

Keeping Terms: PHT’s Cambridge Years: Part II, 1902-03

Mar 13, 2023Mar 12, 2023HTBS

Keeping Terms: PHT’s Cambridge Years: Part I, 1901-02

Feb 23, 2023Feb 25, 2023HTBS

Tickled Pink: A New Rowing History

Feb 9, 2023Feb 8, 2023HTBS

May Time IV: Family Connections

Feb 4, 2023Feb 4, 2023HTBS

The Boat Race: From Vitaphone To YouTube

Feb 2, 2023Feb 1, 2023HTBS

Ilex RC: A Forgotten Club Occupying A Forgotten Place In Rowing History

Jan 19, 2023Jan 19, 2023HTBS

Not Going Spare: Brothers Pulling Together

Aug 4, 2022Aug 3, 2022HTBS

Orwell on eBay: Doublepluswrong

Jul 27, 2022Jul 27, 2022HTBS

How the Waterloo Dispatch was Rowed to England

Jul 15, 2022Nov 18, 2023HTBS

Pocock: Playing at Home

Jul 11, 2022Jul 11, 2022HTBS

Smoke and Mirrors at the Royal Regatta

Jul 5, 2022Jul 5, 2022HTBS

Floreat Schuyler

Jul 3, 2022Jul 3, 2022HTBS

Henley’s Semi-Saturday

Jul 2, 2022Jul 3, 2022HTBS

Henley: That Friday Feeling

Jun 27, 2022Jun 26, 2022HTBS

Cameo of the Cam

May 5, 2022May 5, 2022HTBS

The Feathers: A Forgotten Centre of Early British Rowing. Part I: Preamble

Mar 30, 2022Mar 29, 2022HTBS

A Tideway Week Album: The Cambridge Women

Feb 24, 2022Nov 18, 2023HTBS

Messing about on the River

Feb 16, 2022Nov 18, 2023HTBS

The Wisdom of Pocock

Jan 3, 2022Jan 2, 2022HTBS

Things that Go Bump in the Day*

Aug 19, 2021Aug 19, 2021HTBS

Henley 2021 – Part 3

Aug 18, 2021Aug 18, 2021HTBS

Henley Finals Day 2021 – Part 2

Aug 15, 2021Aug 15, 2021HTBS

Henley 2021: Faterday

Jul 30, 2021Aug 13, 2021HTBS

Henley 2021: The Same But Different

Jul 21, 2021Jul 21, 2021HTBS

The 1908 Olympic Games – Part I

May 27, 2021May 28, 2021HTBS

Rowing Around The Bay

Apr 6, 2021Apr 8, 2021HTBS

Keep it in the Family

Feb 17, 2021Feb 16, 2021HTBS

Muttle’s Volte-Face

Feb 2, 2021Feb 2, 2021HTBS

The College Oarsmen who Helped Save the Sterling

Jan 12, 2021Jan 12, 2021HTBS

Dick, Gray, Eton, Freddy, Steve and two Elliotts: Or Never Judge an Oarsman

Jan 7, 2021Jan 6, 2021HTBS

The Cerebral Giant

Jan 4, 2021Jan 3, 2021HTBS

The Burnell Albums

Dec 14, 2020Dec 13, 2020HTBS

In Living Colour

Oct 28, 2020Oct 27, 2020HTBS

George Orwell: Books, Berks and Boaters

Oct 12, 2020Oct 11, 2020HTBS

The Waterloo Veterans Who Rowed to London

Jul 5, 2020Jul 5, 2020HTBS

HRR 2020: Not Rowed Out

Jun 5, 2020Jun 21, 2020HTBS

The Rowing Memsahibs of Naini Tal

May 26, 2020Jun 25, 2020HTBS

The Long and the Short Of It

May 14, 2020May 13, 2020HTBS

May Time III:I From Tubby to Piggy

May 8, 2020May 7, 2020HTBS

Henley 1945: ‘A brief period of rejoicing’

Apr 24, 2020Apr 24, 2020HTBS

General Sir George Higginson: An Aquatic Postscript

Apr 24, 2020Apr 23, 2020HTBS

May Time II

Apr 3, 2020Apr 2, 2020HTBS

May Time I

Feb 28, 2020Feb 27, 2020HTBS

Dennis Menaces Boat Race Fixtures

Dec 11, 2019Dec 12, 2019HTBS

Part III – Peter Haig Thomas: The Unorthodox Orthodoxist

Dec 10, 2019Dec 12, 2019HTBS

Part II – Peter Haig Thomas: The Unorthodox Orthodoxist

Aug 14, 2019Aug 13, 2019HTBS

The Fourth At Eton: Swinging In The Rain

Jul 29, 2019Jul 28, 2019HTBS

Images of Henley 2019: The Deciding Day (Student and Junior Events) 

Jul 24, 2019Jul 24, 2019HTBS

Images of Henley 2019: Semi Saturday

Jul 3, 2019Jul 2, 2019HTBS

Henley Royal Regatta 2019: Checked and Approved

Jun 17, 2019Jun 16, 2019HTBS

When Keble Went Head

Jun 6, 2019Jun 5, 2019HTBS

Kruck’s Rowing Technique

May 8, 2019May 8, 2019HTBS

Picture Post: More From The HTBS Photo Archive

Apr 22, 2019Apr 21, 2019HTBS

Bevis Sanford: 1939 Light Blues Stroke Dies

Apr 5, 2019Apr 5, 2019HTBS

Looking Forward To The Boat Race?

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