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Birthday Tea
Cheers. Sir Matthew enjoys some Auriol Kensington Rowing Club hospitality (there were chocolate biscuits as well). Tim Koch writes: To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, there is only one thing in life worse than...
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Nothing To Do With Rowing: The King And I
A statue of Richard III, sited outside Leicester Cathedral. Tim Koch has spent a day in Leicester: Perhaps the above picture brings to mind the opening lines of Shakespeare’s Richard III: Now is the...
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2015 Henley Boat Races
Daniel Spring, Henley Boat Races Press Officer, writes in a press release: On 31 March, at the River and Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames, under the watchful eye of the Master of Ceremonies, Robert...
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Henley-on-Thames-and-Online
A sign that summer is coming. Members of the Stewards’ Enclosure have recently received their badges for the 2015 Henley Royal Regatta, 1 – 5 July. Tim Koch writes: A large part of the non-rowing world...
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Sweat, Strive, Row….
Winning photographs in the “We Sweat ~ We Strive ~ We Row” contest. Photos: worldrowing.com The winning crew at this year’s Women’s Eights Head of the River Race was the combination Army BC/Imperial...
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Happy Easter!
Tim Koch asks the question: Who Would Win This Easter Race? The rabbits. They jump the start. The chicks are slow to feather. Tagged: Happy Easter, Tim Koch
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Gefallenen Kameraden
Tim Koch writes: HTBS has written on the subject of rowing clubs and War Memorials many times before. We have covered the monuments of British clubs Vesta, Marlow, Carrickfergus, Auriol and...
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It’s Tideway Week
A manly handshake from 1881. Tim Koch writes: The build-up to Boat Race Day 2015 has begun in earnest, the anticipatory mood assisted by bright and warm conditions. Monday, 6 April to Friday, 10 April...
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2015 Henley Boat Races – Race Report
Photo: Tim Koch. Daniel Spring, Press Officer of the 2015 Henley Boat Races, gives this race report in a press release: Easter Sunday dawned a beautiful spring day, a great relief for organisers as the...
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Tideway Week: Images from Wednesday
Yesterday’s post was headed by a couple of hearty Victorian oarsmen engaged in a manly handshake. This is a slightly more camp view of some Boat Race participants from a card given away with...
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Rising Tide of Gender Opportunity
Cambridge women in practice 2015. Photo: Tim Koch. Many adherents to the Light or the Dark Blue have had a hand in bringing the Women’s Oxford and Cambridge Race to the men’s course. Two of the most...
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Tideway Week: Images from Thursday
Tim Koch reports with images from yesterday’s Tideway Week: History above their heads: Perhaps Steve Trapmore, the Cambridge men’s coach, is contemplating what lessons can still be learned from Steve...
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Rowing and painting at the 2015 Boat Races
Artist Nick Botting’s The Oxford Blues at the Portland Gallery. HTBS’s Hélène Rémond writes from London: On 6 April 2011, HTBS published my “Artist Nick Archer and His Rowing Art”. Four years later, on...
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Tideway Week: Images From Friday
At the Oxford men’s Putney base, the Westminster School boathouse, the flags of both the University and the School have been at half-mast as a mark of respect to Dan Topolski, an alumnus of both...
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Dark Blue Day – for women as well
Oxford and Cambridge crews. Photo: http://www.theboatrace.org Christopher Dodd reports from Putney: A historic Boat Race day was turned into a clean sweep clothed in dark blue by Oxford. They won the...
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Boat Race Day: Compare and Contrast
London Rowing Club, Boat Race Day 2015. Tim Koch writes: I have often noted that for something to appear unchanging, in reality it must constantly if subtilely evolve. In rowing, this is no better...
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Rowers Worth a Movie?
Göran R Buckhorn writes: Last week, I read in the Daily Telegraph that actor Michael Sheen is going to play George Mallory in a film about the mountaineer, who died on a Mount Everest expedition in...
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Dark Blue Day Revisited
Fifty shades of blue: A view of the Oxford – Cambridge Boat Race start from Putney Bridge. This is a repost of Chris Dodd’s Boat Race report first put on HTBS on 12 April, but this time including...
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A Boat Race Miscellany
Where it all starts: University Stone at Putney. Tim Koch writes: My final item on Boat Race Day 2015 is a random collection of pictures that were not used in previous posts but which I think are still...
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Training for Henley Vets….
Malmö in April: down at Malmö Roddklubb, where a club quadruple is training for Henley Veterans Regatta this summer. Bow Janne Andersson, 2 Håkan Christensson, 3 Thomas Barge and Stroke Per Ekström....
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