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Jock Lewes: From Tideway to Tobruk – Part I
HTBS Types may consider that “Game of Thrones” actor Alfie Allen (left) is not entirely convincing as Oxford Rowing Blue and pioneer special forces soldier, Jock Lewes (right) in the new BBC drama...
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Jock Lewes: From Tideway to Tobruk – Part II, Oxford 1933 – 1937
Christ Church’s Tom Quad. Boat club types and other hearties would throw aesthetes and their like into the Mercury fountain. 10 November 2022 By Tim Koch Yesterday, Tim Koch noted that a new BBC drama...
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On Winning and Losing
Paul O’Donovan. Photo: Tim Koch 11 November 2022 By Leo Gibson There are but just a fewwho can lay claim to win them allbut now and then we see a Paularise from Skibb and show us all. The rest of us...
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Water, Welcoming
13 November 2022By Philip Kuepper Yes,I heardthe race was a washout.But I don’t want to write aboutthings going wrong.The human world is dispiriting enough.I’d rather not add to it.Rather the rowerwho...
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Rowing is a Funny Old Game
14 November 2022 By Greg Denieffe Greg Denieffe joins the football cliché brigade. Early Doors A 1933 cigarette card from Ogden’s ‘A. F. C. Nicknames’ series depicting Luton Town, nicknamed ‘The...
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Pocock 8: Searching for Your You of You’s…
George Yeoman Pocock (1891 – 1976), master boatbuilder, pictured in 1938. 15 November 2022 By Chris DoddAt the beginning of this occasional series drawn from George Yeoman Pocock’s memoirs Chris Dodd...
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Nominations for the 2022 World Rowing Awards
16 November 2022 World Rowing has announced the nominations for the 2022 World Rowing Awards. The Executive Committee has selected the finalists, who were nominated by the public, based on the...
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Rowing in Verse and Worse
THE rowing book shop – Way’s in Friday Street, Henley. 18 November 2022By Chris DoddChris Dodd browses among the literary types. Recent browsing hither and thither reminded me how much print is thrown...
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Just For the Fun of It
20 November 2022By Philip Kuepper Please allow memanipulate youwith words.After all, that iswhat writing is.But with me you won’t be ledup the primrose path.For one thing, we’ll be outon water in a...
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Turkey Day!
24 November 2022 HTBS wishes all those who celebrate Thanksgiving a Happy Turkey Day!
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A Mystic Experience
Mystic River. Photo: Ingrid H. Buckhorn 27 November 2022By Philip KuepperOn my way to the library this past Friday morning,I felt I had driven into another dimension.I drove from who I am in the...
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The Fictional Life of Jock Lewes
The 1936 Oxford crew. Jock Lewes is at 2 and his great friend David Winser is at stroke. 28 November 2022 By Göran R Buckhorn As you loyal HTBS readers and HTBS Types know, some of us writers on this...
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Aylings: The Racing Blade Experts
George Ayling, the son of the eponymous founder of the famous and long-lived Putney firm of oar and scull makers, Edward Ayling and Sons, pictured in 1900. 29 November 2022 By Tim Koch Rowers from...
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Aylings Addendum
Eton’s Princess Elizabeth (PE) Cup crew at Henley 1988 using an Aylings boat and Aylings carbon fibre oars. 1 December 2022 By Tim Koch My recent piece on Aylings, oar and scull makers for 123-years...
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Blues, Brown, Boris, Bruce and Buccaneers in the Boat Race, Part I
The Oxford crew shown here are probably celebrating winning the 1989 Boat Race by 2 1/2 lengths, but it is possible they were actually marking the end of the decade in which the event finally moved...
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Blues, Brown, Boris, Bruce and Buccaneers in the Boat Race, Part II
On the basis that “no publicity is bad publicity”, Beefeater Gin, the new sponsors of the Boat Race in 1987, must have been delighted with the extensive media coverage of the run-up to that year’s...
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An Outing on the Water
4 december 2022 By Philip Kuepper Rimbaud?His would have beentoo incendiary an aurafor me to be near;too much passion.I would have been ignited,and burned to a crisp.Even to board the boatof his...
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The 2022 World Rowing Awards
5 December 2022In mid-November, World Rowing announced the finalists for the 2022 World Rowing Awards. Then yesterday, the organisation announced the coach, rowers and crews who were the winners of...
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Not Cuckoo: Signs of Spring
The Oxford men’s first four, number 38, narrowly leads the Cambridge men’s first four, number 39, at Hammersmith Bridge during the recent Fours Head of the River Race. At the finish, the Light Blues...
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Eights Online
The Oxford – Cambridge Boat Race Trial Eights were not live streamed in 1906 and popular magazines of the day took a week to produce picture reports. 8 December 2022By Tim Koch Tim Koch on one of the...
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