There aren’t enough Rythmonic Dance Bands these days.

Well deserved.

Pleased to be able to find homes with members of the Masters’ squad for three bound volumes of The Field which we really don’t need given that The British Newspaper Archive has scans of the full set.

This just arrived. In which Thames RC start winning regularly…

UK rowing old hands: When did the ‘tin fish’ (i.e. small aluminium flat-bottomed boats with an outboard engine) become common as coaching launches? What did coaches do on the Tideway before that? Was it largely towpath cycling plus a few wooden launches for the larger clubs?

I see the men have decided on a ‘Game Face’ look in photos this year.

I think that 1874 was the first time that the idea of a clubhouse for Thames RC was broached at an AGM. This report was in the Sporting Gazette. I love that dogs seemingly rank higher than the committee when planning the accommodation.

If anyone managing the records/archives/history of a UK rowing club or event, however casually, would like to drop me a DM, I have had an idea for a collaboration which I think could be mutually beneficial.

Latest acquisitions for the Thames RC library. Two are by former TRC rowers (Baz Moffat and Leon Fletcher). One has a chapter on the 1928 Thames flood, about which I am curious. And as the Hassall biography, we have three large drawings by him in the bar (with one more lost).

I neglected to bring either Hear The Boat Sing or a set of Henley Record Books down with me (what an oversight!) but I *think* this is the first time ever in Thames RC’s history that the club has been in five Henley finals. Four in 1927 and 1928 (all four won in both years).

Thanks to the ever-reliable David Biddulph who notes that LRC are actually on 15 too (oddly Wikipedia’s Thames Challenge Cup is missing 1977 in its results section). So it’s all to play for!

Thames Rowing Club celebrates 50 years of women members with a memorable Henley Royal Regatta. Henley Royal Regatta ThamesRCArchive Thames RC heartheboatsing.com/2023/07/11/tha…

Not many of these in circulation but finally got one on ebay. Just 2000-2004 to track down and then the Thames RC library will have a full set.

Got the order for the prints of the Henley Royal Regatta winning crews in to Spectrum Labs two weeks earlier than I managed last year. All photos by Joanne Harris this year. Now, will I be able to get the prints mounted, framed and hung in time for The Fours Head?

I (that’s James) haven’t posted from this account for a while. I expect to be deleting my personal account once I’ve done some housekeeping, and this one will go too. I’m on Bluesky though no immediate plans to set up a separate archive account.