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Tag: River Thames

Nov 8, 2025Nov 7, 2025HTBS

Great River Race

Oct 21, 2025Oct 21, 2025HTBS

Young Bill and Old Bill Remembered

Oct 12, 2025Oct 12, 2025HTBS

Putney Bids Farewell To Chas

Oct 3, 2025Oct 3, 2025HTBS

The 2025 Great River Race

Sep 13, 2025Sep 24, 2025HTBS

Doggett’s 2025 Part II: Go!

Sep 12, 2025Sep 24, 2025HTBS

Doggett’s 2025 Part I: On The Start

May 8, 2025May 7, 2025HTBS

Turner-on-Thames

May 3, 2025May 2, 2025HTBS

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

May 2, 2025May 18, 2025HTBS

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

Nov 29, 2024Dec 11, 2024HTBS

Dufy on the Thames

Oct 1, 2024Sep 30, 2024HTBS

Medalling In The Thames

Sep 23, 2024Sep 22, 2024HTBS

The Amazon Beats The Thames

Jul 10, 2024Jul 19, 2024HTBS

Doggetts: For Ever

Jul 8, 2024Jul 8, 2024HTBS

D-Day 9 July

May 30, 2024May 29, 2024HTBS

The Coombes Monument: Four Heads Are Better Than None

May 7, 2024May 7, 2024HTBS

Three Men and Three Women in Boats (To Say Nothing of the Dog and the Cat) – Part I

Mar 19, 2024Mar 18, 2024HTBS

The Titan Who Ran Rings Round Olympia

Feb 20, 2024Feb 19, 2024HTBS

Hear The Thames Sing

Feb 6, 2024Feb 5, 2024HTBS

Totally Thames 2024: Call-Out for Proposals

Nov 7, 2023Nov 6, 2023HTBS

Shafted

Oct 30, 2023Oct 29, 2023HTBS

The Wingfield Sculls: Heart, Muscle and Brain Required

Sep 22, 2023Sep 30, 2023HTBS

Chester Regatta, Part I: Old But How Old?

Sep 20, 2023Sep 19, 2023HTBS

The GRR: Where East Meets West

Jul 31, 2023Jul 30, 2023HTBS

Artsy Fartsy Rowing Quiz

Jul 22, 2023Jul 22, 2023HTBS

The 2023 Doggett’s: A Good Wager

Apr 25, 2023Apr 24, 2023HTBS

Scaring the Naiads

Mar 21, 2023Mar 20, 2023HTBS

Heads To The Power of 3

Mar 18, 2023Mar 17, 2023HTBS

Post Modern

Mar 7, 2023Mar 6, 2023HTBS

The 75th WHoRR: Going Strong

Feb 18, 2023Feb 17, 2023HTBS

Totally Thames 2023 Open Call

Jan 9, 2023Jan 8, 2023HTBS

No New Dawn For Hammersmith Bridge

Nov 15, 2022Nov 18, 2023HTBS

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

Oct 13, 2022Oct 13, 2022HTBS

A Bright Idea: Reflections On The Royal River – Part 3

Oct 12, 2022Oct 12, 2022HTBS

A Bright Idea: Reflections On The Royal River – Part 2

Oct 11, 2022Oct 11, 2022HTBS

A Bright Idea: Reflections On The Royal River – Part 1

Oct 1, 2022Sep 28, 2022HTBS

Royal Watermen Give Their Final Service to The Queen

Sep 19, 2022Sep 18, 2022HTBS

London’s Two Rivers

Sep 11, 2022Sep 10, 2022HTBS

Of Time, Thames-Robed

Sep 6, 2022Sep 5, 2022HTBS

Recreational

Jul 18, 2022Jul 17, 2022HTBS

Hot Doggetts

May 6, 2022Jun 6, 2022HTBS

The Feathers: A Forgotten Centre of Early British Rowing. Part II: The Salters and the Glory Years

May 5, 2022May 5, 2022HTBS

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

Apr 12, 2022Apr 11, 2022HTBS

The Boat Race Day Festival of Rowing and Oxbridge Challenge 2022

Feb 11, 2022Feb 11, 2022HTBS

Barnes Bridge: In Life, Sport and Art

Nov 11, 2021Nov 10, 2021HTBS

The Thames: Assisting the Enemy

Oct 2, 2021Oct 1, 2021HTBS

Doggett’s Déjà Vu

Sep 14, 2021Sep 13, 2021HTBS

Head-ing in the Right Direction

Jul 29, 2021Oct 18, 2021HTBS

Art and the Pro-Am Divide

Jul 20, 2021Jul 20, 2021HTBS

Good Friday

Jun 23, 2021Jun 23, 2021HTBS

D-Day, 25 June

Apr 15, 2021Apr 14, 2021HTBS

Thames Festival Trust Receives Grant from Culture Recovery Fund

Sep 12, 2020Sep 11, 2020HTBS

The 1950s River Thames – Free Shows

Sep 1, 2020Sep 1, 2020HTBS

2020: Awaiting the Four Oarsmen of the Apocalypse

Jul 29, 2020Jul 28, 2020HTBS

Clubs and Boathouses on the Tideway: Part V

Jul 21, 2020Jul 20, 2020HTBS

Abertideway

Jul 20, 2020Jul 19, 2020HTBS

Changing with the Times

Jul 12, 2020Jul 11, 2020HTBS

150 Years Since the Death of Rowing Legend Harry Clasper

Jun 18, 2020Jun 17, 2020HTBS

Remembering Rowing and the River During Lockdown

Jun 11, 2020Jun 10, 2020HTBS

Clubs and Boathouses of the Tideway: Part IV

Jun 10, 2020Jun 10, 2020HTBS

Clubs and Boathouses of the Tideway: Part III

Jun 9, 2020Jun 8, 2020HTBS

Clubs and Boathouses of the Tideway: Part II

Jun 8, 2020Jun 7, 2020HTBS

‘Riverside Pig Sheds’ – Clubs and Boathouses of the Tideway: Part I

May 25, 2020May 24, 2020HTBS

Fixed Seat Reading III: Thames and Tyne Tideways

Mar 6, 2020Mar 6, 2020HTBS

Randan Thoughts…

Aug 31, 2019Aug 30, 2019HTBS

Dad’s Army on the Water: The Upper Thames Patrol

Jun 7, 2019Jun 6, 2019HTBS

When the New Emperor of Japan went to Henley

Feb 4, 2019Feb 3, 2019HTBS

Liquid History On Tap

Jan 29, 2019Jan 31, 2019HTBS

Going To The Dogs

Oct 30, 2018Oct 30, 2018HTBS

The 64th Fuller’s Head of the River Fours

Sep 21, 2018Oct 10, 2018HTBS

Sculling from Oxford to London

Sep 13, 2018Sep 13, 2018HTBS

Something in The City

Sep 5, 2018Sep 21, 2018HTBS

Gliding Down the Thames in “Clemmie”

Sep 3, 2018Sep 2, 2018HTBS

Pinniped Passengers

Aug 28, 2018Aug 27, 2018HTBS

Doggett’s 2018: Better Late Than Never

Jul 23, 2018Jul 22, 2018HTBS

As Ye Row, So Shall Ye Reap*: A Boating Benediction

Jun 13, 2018Jun 12, 2018HTBS

Leander: Marking the Beginnings of Its Success

May 18, 2018May 18, 2018HTBS

Keeping it in the Family

Mar 15, 2018Mar 14, 2018HTBS

Head-to-Head-to-Head-to-Head

Feb 9, 2018Feb 8, 2018HTBS

Water Colours: Some Paintings Inspired By The River Thames

Dec 29, 2017Jan 22, 2018HTBS

Backsplash: The Rowing History Conference – Talk by Peter Mallory, Part III

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