This review was published in Maritime Life and Traditions, No. 26, Spring 2005.
Saturday, March 14, 2009
James Renforth of Gateshead Champion Sculler of the World
In 2002 Ian Whitehead, Keeper of Maritime History at Tyne & Wear Museums, published The Sporting Tyne - A History of Professional Rowing, in which he told the story of the greatest oarsmen on the River Tyne: Harry Clasper, Robert Chambers, and James Renforth. This latest offering is a biography of just one of those men, James Renforth, born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1842. With no school education, Renforth became a smith’s striker, and in early 1866 started ferrying the workers demolishing the old Tyne Bridge . Later that year, he won his first sculling race.
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