
Tag: Professional rowing


Going to Town with Barry

1920: Ernest Barry Wins the World Sculling Title

Bill Miller: A Hanlan Letter

Changing with the Times

Putting Rowers on a Pedestal

150 Years Since the Death of Rowing Legend Harry Clasper

Richmond Regatta: A Duck Hunt and a Pig Hunt

Rowing & People of Colour: A Few of the Few

Fixed Seat Reading III: Thames and Tyne Tideways

Sapper McDevitt – An ANZAC Rower

A Sherbet for Quarantine

The Political Courtney

With Bert on the River

Crewcial Collectables: A Nice Pair – Part I

Liquid History On Tap

Going To The Dogs

John H. Clasper Patented Countervail

Close to the Water

A Hidden History of The Thames on Show

Moving Pictures

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

Out-Foxed in Red Wing

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

The Blackstaffe Trophy: A Case of Reverse Alchemy

The 1960 Boat Race: Oxford’s Adrian Stokes’s Rare Footage

Canadian R. Fulton v. American J. Biglin

“Hadaway Harry” is Coming to Putney

Guardsmen In A Row, Part II: The Brigade of Guards Boat Club

Rescued from the Flames and Risen from the Ashes

The Thames Finds a Champion

The People’s Ned Hanlan

What are the Origins of the Modern Sport of Rowing?

New Website Celebrates the Great Harry Clasper

A Reappraisal of the Importance of the River Lea

No Swan Song For Cygnet: A review of “A History of Cygnet Rowing Club, 1890 – 2015”

A Farce on his Face

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

Rowing Our Way to a Separate (and Proud) Australian Identity

Harry Clasper: Still a Hero on Tyneside

Who Was The Man At The Bow?

Celebrating Henry Searle

New Rowing Book: The Brownsville Blacksmith

Good Times in a Rat Infested Shack – Tom Green’s Boathouse

The Bonny* Boats of Newcastle

Cricket Bats and Vampire Dolphins

A Rowing Coat of Arms

Canadian Champion Sculler Ned Hanlan

From Oarsmen to Boxmen

Oars Of The Roses: The Tudor Pull

The 1897 Diamond Challenge Sculls

The Passing of a Gentleman

Rowing History Footnote: Towns Followed by Mishaps in London

Eric Lupton – The Last European Sculling Champion

A ‘Roadsculler’ Race in 1888

Henry Searle: “How I Won The World Championship”, Part 3

Henry Searle: “How I Won The World Championship”, Part 2

Henry Searle: “How I Won The World Championship”, Part 1

Bill East: Doggett’s Winner, Professional Rower And Coach

New Biography On Professional Champion Michael Rush

Tim Koch: Professionals Win At Henley

Defeated Champions In 1919

Henley 1851
Going Royal…

More Tobacco Cards

How SPY Saw Henry Searle

Henry Searle’s Monument

John Taylor, The King’s Own Water Poet

Harry Clasper Monument

Famous Scullers’ Monuments

A Rower From Tai Tapu!

Felton Beats Barry In 1919

New Book: Seven Australian World Champion Scullers

Saratoga Boat Race 11 September 1871

John Biglin, The Hard-Assed Coach?

An October Race 131 Years Ago

A Silvester Family Affair

A Family Affair

Greetings From Toronto!
