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Edwardian Rowing: Threatened by Golf, Punt Cushions and ‘My Lady Nicotine’
Members of Nottingham Rowing Club captured by a photographer from The Bystander magazine in 1911. 16 May 2016 Tim Koch has been looking at eBay: Confession is good for the soul and, in an article that...
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Bumps Diary Part 6: Pots and Pieces
PCBC W1 incredibly excited after winning the Novice Wo.8+ division of Bedford Regatta. Photo: Callum Mantell. 17 May 2016 Courtney Landers Here follows Courtney Landers’s sixth part of her diary about...
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‘Rowing is a Metaphor for Life’
Last Saturday, HTBS’s Philip Kuepper, the ‘Rowing Poet’, signed copies of his book ‘A Sea To Row By – Poems’ at Bank Square Books in downtown Mystic. 18 May 2016 On Saturday, 14 May, Göran R Buckhorn...
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The Crystal Glass of Memory
19 May 2016 The bay blew too choppy to row, their plan, to rent sculls, put on hold. They would instead trek the cobbled isle, until the wind died. The steep uneven scape kept them alert. Stumbling on...
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Boathouse Dogs – Bets, Bottles and Blackwell
20 May 2016 Rowing historian Thomas E. Weil writes about Blackwell, the Yale Boathouse dog: Some stories are many stories. These are one of them. The stage is the Yale boathouse in the 1980s: the cast...
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Willoughby-on-Thames
Part of Leonard Willoughby’s 1911 report on Thames Rowing Club published in Bystander magazine. The rest of the series, “Great Rowing Clubs at Home”, was featured on HTBS on 16 May. RH ‘Bill’ Forster...
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Rhapsody
‘… I climbed the hill toward home’ 22 May 2016 Rapt, I watched the last gulls wheel east. Rapt, I listened until their cries faded far out over the importunate ocean. Dusk hung ashen over the harbor...
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A Flapper Goes Rowing
The style of the 1920s, rolled stockings. 23 May 2016 Göran R Buckhorn is looking at some women’s legs again: Do you know what rolled stockings are? That is not hard, is it? A pair of stockings that...
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Bumps Diary Part 7: A Difficult Week
Marianna’s ‘bullet wound’. Given that she and her appendix had only recently parted ways we were all a bit concerned when Marianna got out of the boat with blood all over her unisuit, but it was only a...
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HTBS is doing well!
Not the HTBS editor! 25 May 2016 Göran R Buckhorn writes: HTBS is doing all right. As the editor of the website, I check every day how many daily visits we have or how many views we have for a special...
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The Eccentric Reginald Bray: The Postal Prankster and ‘Autograph King’
Willie Reginald ‘Reg’ Bray, the ‘Autograph King’, who, as a postal prankster, put the British postal authorities to the test. Courtesy of John Tingey. 26 May 2016 Göran R Buckhorn writes about the...
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The 1956 Winning Letter
Detail from Cosmo Clark’s painting for London Rowing Club’s centenary in 1956. P. N. ‘Farn’ Carpmael, the ‘letter writer’, is in the stroke-seat. From the cover of Chris Dodd’s book celebrating London...
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Rowing to Arcturus
28 May 2016 Into the bright firery path of the star, path far from all that is earth familiar, my mind is drawn. There my thoughts float free of all association, my mind a slate receptive to Spirit...
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The Shore Before Us
29 May 2016 In this depth of quiet, I can hear the pads of a cat’s paws brush against the cobbles of the narrow path separating the close set houses across from one another, the windows of which are...
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Kilometres Make Champions*
30 May 2016 Tim Koch writes: In a recent post, Göran Buckhorn wrote about Lennart Månsson, a sculler from Sweden’s Malmö Rodklubb, who logged more than 9,000 outings in the club’s logbooks in his 74...
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Bumps Diary Part 8: Birds of a Feather
The small flock of geese that live around these houseboats are quite friendly as far as geese go, and are completely disinterested in rowers; they are not as the dim-wittedly aggressive swan Swanald...
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Crewcial Collectables: Cigarettes, Whiskey & Wild Wild Women
(An occasional column about affordable rowing memorabilia) No. 51 of a series of 600 cards called ‘Irish View Scenery’ featuring a real photograph of Shannon Rowing Club, Limerick, issued by Gallagher...
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The Evers-Swindell Twins Win the 2016 Thomas Keller Medal
Caroline and Georgina Evers-Swindell of New Zealand win gold at the Beijing Olympic Games. Photo: FISA. 2 June 2016 Last Saturday, 28 May, twin sisters Caroline and Georgina Evers-Swindell of New...
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GB’s Men’s Coxless Four Prepare for Rio
GB’s gold medal coxless four at Lucerne – from left to right: Callum McBrierty, Moe Sbihi, George Nash and Alex Gregory. Photo: British Rowing’s website. 3 June 2016 Göran R Buckhorn writes: Great...
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John Player Helped Tideway Scullers to International Regattas in the 1960s
From left to right: Lionel Bailey, David Redwood, Rooney Massara, Willy Almand, Guy Greaves (cox), Wayne Smith, Chris Pierce, Mike Tebay and Pat Barry (stroke) with their John Player’s boat in 1969. 4...
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