Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Lowry’s Grim Fairy Tale

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Rowing historian and writer, Chris Dodd, believes that he has found a sculler in L. S. Lowry’s painting Industrial Landscape 1950 which r...
Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Reminder: Rowing History Forum, Saturday, 12 October

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Here is a reminder about the upcoming Rowing History Forum on Saturday, 12 October, 9 a.m.–5 p.m., at the River & Rowing Museum in He...
Monday, October 7, 2013

Tim Koch: Wingfields - The Race of Champions

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WD Kinnear’s Wingfields Medal with bars for 1910, 1911 and 1912. Tim Koch writes: Tomorrow, Tuesday, 8 October 2013, will see the 173r...
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Sunday, October 6, 2013

Leaders & Laggards

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The above ‘motivational poster’ from 1932 was forward to HTBS by rowing historian Bill Lanouette. It was sent to Bill by one of his old ro...
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Friday, October 4, 2013

Tales of the Riverbank: Hammersmith

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‘Hammersmith: Boating Men Going Out’. This print shows the first Hammersmith Bridge, 1824 - 1884. Tim Koch writes: As someone who has ...
Thursday, October 3, 2013

The Rower, Contemplative

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The Rower, Contemplative Defeat had soured him, his belly full of the emptiness of what could have been had the race gone his way. ...
Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Mylène Paquette on a Solo Row Across the Atlantic

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Mylène Paquette is rowing across the Atlantic from Canada to France. Photo: Patrick Mével. Hélène Rémond writes from France about the Oc...
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Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Famous Photographer's Rowing Pics from the 1950s

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Ali Mac, photo Daily Mirror HTBS recently received an e-mail from Emile Farley of the Sons of the Thames Rowing Club with some interest...
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Monday, September 30, 2013

More on 'Shaved' Blades

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HTBS has received two e-mails related to the entry about Ran Laurie’s ‘narrow blade’ that was posted on Friday 27 September . In one e-mai...
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Sunday, September 29, 2013

Cricket Bats and Vampire Dolphins

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Watermen’s Hall at 16 St - Mary - at - Hill, London EC3. Picture: Steve Cadman. Tim Koch writes: Bernard Hempseed’s recent piece for ...
Saturday, September 28, 2013

The Reality of Art

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The Reality of Art Eakins' scullers I paint on my visual cortex, on the too crowed river of my visual cortex. There is a peacefu...
Friday, September 27, 2013

Ran Laurie – The Man with the Narrow Blade?

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Ran Laurie stroking the 1936 Cambridge crew. Jack Wilson in 7-seat and Noel Duckworth coxing. After my review of Daniel James Brown’s br...
Thursday, September 26, 2013

Happy Arthur’s Day & the Discovery of Guinness’s lost Ad Campaigns

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HTBS’s own Irishman, Greg Denieffe, writes, It is not all going according to plan for this year’s Arthur's Day which falls on 26 S...

A Rowing Coat of Arms

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Photograph from the website of The Company of Watermen & Lightermen of the River Thames. Rowing historian Bernard Hempseed writ...
Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Three Haiku on Rowing

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Three Haiku on Rowing ローイング Real English summer: Henley Royal Regatta – Pimm’s Cup in the shade An autumn head race – young girls in...