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Tag: George Pocock

Dec 3, 2025Jan 1, 2026HTBS

Jack Beresford’s Berlin Album Part I

Feb 15, 2025Feb 14, 2025HTBS

Pocock’s Prowess

Oct 8, 2024Oct 7, 2024HTBS

Pocock Plaquery Concluded

Sep 16, 2024Sep 15, 2024HTBS

George Pocock: Local Boy Made Good

Sep 7, 2024Sep 7, 2024HTBS

Stan Pocock Rowing Center Dedication

Aug 21, 2024Aug 20, 2024HTBS

Pocock Plaque Unveiling

Jun 14, 2024Jun 13, 2024HTBS

Pocock Plaque Approved

Jun 4, 2024Jun 3, 2024HTBS

A Passion for Rowing

May 14, 2024May 13, 2024HTBS

Pocock’s Prize

Apr 22, 2024Apr 21, 2024HTBS

Pocock’s Progress

Feb 27, 2024Feb 27, 2024HTBS

Showing Some Class

Feb 23, 2024Mar 1, 2024HTBS

The Boys in the Boat: The Myth of the Underdog – Part II

Feb 19, 2024Feb 18, 2024HTBS

Building A Boat For The Boys

Feb 15, 2024Feb 14, 2024HTBS

Intelligence Quotient

Feb 13, 2024Feb 14, 2024HTBS

Weigh more!

Feb 7, 2024Feb 6, 2024HTBS

The Boys in the Boat… The Rest of the Story

Jan 30, 2024Jan 30, 2024HTBS

The Boys On The Set

Dec 21, 2023Dec 20, 2023HTBS

Rosebud’s a Sled!

Dec 15, 2023Dec 15, 2023HTBS

Who Built the Husky Clipper?

Dec 9, 2023Dec 8, 2023HTBS

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

Dec 1, 2023Nov 30, 2023HTBS

“Dear Lucy & Jim” – A George Pocock Letter from Berlin, 1936

Nov 30, 2023Nov 29, 2023HTBS

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

Nov 13, 2023Nov 26, 2023HTBS

Book Review: The Greatest Rowing Stories Ever Told

Oct 6, 2023Oct 5, 2023HTBS

Pocock Plaquery

Oct 2, 2023Oct 11, 2023HTBS

“The Greatest Rowing Stories Ever Told” Is Out Today

Jul 31, 2023Jul 30, 2023HTBS

Artsy Fartsy Rowing Quiz

Mar 2, 2023Jun 2, 2023HTBS

The Greatest Rowing Stories

Feb 10, 2023Feb 10, 2023HTBS

Swedish Olympian Evert Gunnarsson Dies

Jan 25, 2023Jan 28, 2024HTBS

The Boys in the German Boat: Wikings at the 1936 Olympics – Part II

Jan 10, 2023Jan 10, 2023HTBS

Restoration of the Burk and Pocock Single

Nov 18, 2022Nov 21, 2022HTBS

Rowing in Verse and Worse 

Nov 15, 2022Nov 18, 2023HTBS

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

Jul 21, 2022Nov 18, 2023HTBS

Pocock 7: Golden Gateway to Helsinki

Jul 15, 2022Nov 18, 2023HTBS

Pocock: Playing at Home

May 26, 2022Nov 18, 2023HTBS

Pocock in Berlin: The Best of Times, The Worst of Times

May 23, 2022May 23, 2022HTBS

Seattle-on-Thames

Apr 25, 2022Apr 26, 2025HTBS

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

Mar 29, 2022Nov 18, 2023HTBS

Rowing Boeing

Mar 14, 2022Mar 13, 2022HTBS

Invention: One Mother (Necessity) But Many Fathers

Mar 11, 2022Mar 10, 2022HTBS

The Return of the Doc Riggall

Mar 7, 2022Nov 18, 2023HTBS

Gordon Bennett!*

Mar 4, 2022Mar 3, 2022HTBS

The Work of a Devil

Feb 24, 2022Nov 18, 2023HTBS

Messing about on the River

Feb 21, 2022Jun 24, 2022HTBS

Duvall Hecht: Olympic Oarsman, Pilot, Coach, Entrepreneur, Truck Driver Dies

Feb 17, 2022Feb 16, 2022HTBS

It’s a Great Art

Feb 16, 2022Nov 18, 2023HTBS

The Wisdom of Pocock

Jan 15, 2022Jan 14, 2022HTBS

English Boatbuilders are Building Boats for “The Boys” Movie

Dec 3, 2021Dec 3, 2021HTBS

At The Pictures: A Hundred Thousand Oarsmen

Jul 9, 2021Jul 8, 2021HTBS

The Test of Time

Apr 29, 2021Apr 28, 2021HTBS

Building Shells According to Hoyle

Apr 19, 2021May 13, 2021HTBS

Olympic Champion Conn Findlay Dies

Aug 24, 2020Aug 24, 2020HTBS

Railroaded in Berlin

Jul 17, 2020Nov 23, 2020HTBS

Thor Nilsen: The Great God and the Big Teacher – Part II

Jul 6, 2020Jul 5, 2020HTBS

What will Compare to this? – Nothing!

Jun 21, 2019Jun 20, 2019HTBS

Swingtime with Hitler

Jul 2, 2018Jul 3, 2018HTBS

462 Boats and Counting

Apr 19, 2018Apr 18, 2018HTBS

The Boys of the Boys of the Boys in the Boat

Mar 16, 2018Mar 15, 2018HTBS

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

Mar 3, 2018Mar 4, 2018HTBS

Lucy Pocock-Stillwell: A Woman in a Waterman’s World?

Oct 30, 2017Oct 29, 2017HTBS

 Tales of Row

Aug 8, 2017Aug 8, 2017HTBS

Robert ‘Bob’ Day R.I.P.

Aug 3, 2017Aug 3, 2017HTBS

In the Art and Spirit of Rowing

Mar 4, 2015Mar 3, 2015HTBS

Help the Octuple “Kathy Lazara Whitman” live on!

Jan 7, 2015Jan 7, 2015HTBS

Where Boats Grow On Trees

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