Sunday, May 6, 2012

Two Old Henley Regatta Programmes

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After posting yesterday’s entry about the 1920 Henley Royal Regatta programme, I remembered that at the fund-raising party in March in m...
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Saturday, May 5, 2012

Two 1920 HRR Debutants

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Although there had been a four-day regatta organised on the Henley Reach in 1919 - the Royal Henley Peace Regatta - it was never recognise...
Friday, May 4, 2012

POW At 1921 HRR

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Straw hat season will soon be upon us - 15 May - HTBS remembers when we saw this old photograph of Prince Edward, Prince of Wales, when he...
Thursday, May 3, 2012

Tall Boys

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Jack and Wally HTBS’s London correspondent Tim Koch writes, Yesterday’s HTBS item, ‘Heavy Boys’ , on the heights and weights of some f...
Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Heavy Boys?

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Laurie Two weeks ago, HTBS received a question from ‘David’ who writes: ‘I’m doing a bit of research and wondered if you know or could t...
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012

New Edition Of "Kelly"

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In 2008, Mystic Seaport published Daniel Boyne’s book Kelly: A Father, A Son, An American Quest , a rowing biography about Jack Kelly, Sr. ...
Monday, April 30, 2012

Yeats, Joyce, Heaney... and Currivan?

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HTBS’s Tim Koch writes, The recent postings of things poetical and things Irish on HTBS prompts me to write about a collection of humoro...
Sunday, April 29, 2012

The Suit Cracknell Wore

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2004 Olympic gold medallists: Steve Williams, James Cracknell, Ed Coode, and Matt Pinsent For those of you who are interested in Olympic...
Saturday, April 28, 2012

Nice Rowing Cover

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On 10 November, 2010 , on HTBS, I wrote about a book that I had found on an antiquarian bookseller’s site. The book had a very interesting...
Friday, April 27, 2012

Neptune RC Out For A Spin!

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Greg Denieffe, HTBS’s expert on Irish rowing, writes, What a great entry on HTBS yesterday ! Attached is a photo of the lower Liffey take...
Thursday, April 26, 2012

Row River

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Row River The gray silk scarf of the Liffey lay Wrinkled at the bow Of his shell as the rower Stroked slowly the river, Source of f...
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Tufte On The Thames

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One of the most popular post on HTBS so far this year is Tim Koch’s interview with the Norwegian Olympic sculling champion Olaf Tufte, “Olaf...
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Olympic Countdown...

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On 18 April, it was exactly 100 days to go to the opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games in London. This was celebrated in Times Square in ...
Monday, April 23, 2012

Tim Koch: Big Green, Little Rowing

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 HTBS's Tim Koch writes from London: A recent addition to YouTube is a 37 minute long promotional film made in 1956 for potential appl...
Sunday, April 22, 2012

Two Poems About The Boat Race 7 April, 2012

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As it is still April, which means that it is still Poetry Month, today HTBS will post two poems, both about the Oxford–Cambridge Boat Race w...