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@ThamesRCArchive

Documenting the history of Thames Rowing Club (@ThamesRC).

Putney Embankment, London, UK Katılım Ağustos 2020
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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.
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Not many of these in circulation but finally got one on ebay. Just 2000-2004 to track down and then the @ThamesRC library will have a full set.
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@david_biddulph @ThamesRC @HenleyRegatta Yes, looks like I miscounted. Now I’m home with access to the results books, I also need to check whether TRC has ever reached 5 finals before. I don’t think so, but it’s possible there was a year when there were 5 finalists but only 1 or 2 won so it’s not well-remembered.
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If I have added it up correctly, @ThamesRC is now the most successful club in the history of the Thames Challenge Cup at @HenleyRegatta with 15 wins: 1872 1873 1874 1890 1893 1905 1920 1927 1928 1934 2015 2017 2018 2021 2023 London RC have 14 wins Molesey BC have 8 Leander 7
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@rowinggeek @ThamesRC @HenleyRegatta A symptom of the wider drought that saw no men’s HRR wins between the Stewards’ in 1956 and the Wyfold in 2003. One reason why TRC members of long standing raise an eyebrow at the idea that the club is now winning too much!
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ThamesRCArchive@ThamesRCArchive·
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!
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If I have added it up correctly, @ThamesRC is now the most successful club in the history of the Thames Challenge Cup at @HenleyRegatta with 15 wins: 1872 1873 1874 1890 1893 1905 1920 1927 1928 1934 2015 2017 2018 2021 2023 London RC have 14 wins Molesey BC have 8 Leander 7

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…TRC is also the most successful club in the history of the Wargrave Challenge Cup, though on a rather shorter timescale, with two wins: 2022 2023 Leander Club has 1
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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 @ThamesRC’s history that the club has been in five Henley finals. Four in 1927 and 1928 (all four won in both years).
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ThamesRCArchive@ThamesRCArchive·
Latest acquisitions for the @ThamesRC 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).
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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.
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@TLArowing Interesting, thanks. If you can send me an email address via twitter Direct Message, I can share with you what I’m thinking about - essentially a possible shared online platform for hosting various rowing institutions’ archives.
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TLA Rowing@TLArowing·
@ThamesRCArchive I am archiving on Facebook for Strode's College Boat Club, which will celebrate in 2024 the centenary of its creation. I am also the Director Of Rowing at The Langley Academy, which specialises in museum learning. It has a library of second hand rowing books and magazines.
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I think that 1874 was the first time that the idea of a clubhouse for @ThamesRC 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.
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