Thames Rowing Club

The Thames Rowing Club (TRC) is the joint third-oldest non-academic rowing club on the Thames and is in Putney, London. It was founded in 1860, the same year as Twickenham Rowing Club. The TRC clubhouse is on Putney Embankment and was constructed in 1879 with several later additions.

Thames Rowing Club
LocationPutney, United Kingdom
Coordinates51°28′11.3″N 0°13′14.7″W
Home waterTideway
Founded1860
AffiliationsBritish Rowing
boat code TRC
Thames Regional Rowing Council, Remenham Club
Websitethamesrc.co.uk
Events
Boustead Cup Races (TRC/LRC only) (Feb/March)
Notable members

As at July 2019, Thames had won events at Henley Royal Regatta 82 times.

Thames is one of the founding clubs of Remenham Club; a social club for rowers, with a clubhouse and grounds on the Henley Royal Regatta course. Thames hosts Cambridge University Women's Boat Club for their winter Tideway training ahead of the Women's Boat Race, and on race day itself. Thames also houses the Boat Race's media centre and administrative office.

The club colours are red, white and black in stripes, the white stripe lying between the red and black and being of half their width.[1]

History

Foundation

Thames Rowing Club was founded under the name City of London Rowing Club and according to its first rules, its objects were 'organised pleasure or exercise rowing'.[2] The earliest surviving minutes of a club meeting are dated January 1861 but are headed 'City of London Rowing Club. Founded 1860', and 1860 is commonly accepted as the year of foundation, the same year as Twickenham Rowing Club. Three academic institutions aside, this makes it the third oldest rowing club on the Thames.[3]

Early successes

Thames, under its captain James Hastie, was now established as a mainstay of amateur rowing in London, and as a rival to its Putney neighbour London Rowing Club.[4]

Clubhouse
Thames Rowing Club on Head of the River Race day

The clubhouse itself was constructed in 1879 with several later additions.[5] In 2005, the club opened a new building behind the clubhouse, named in memory of former Club President and benefactor Alan Burrough, providing additional training facilities and boat storage. In May 2011, work began on substantial alterations and improvements to the clubhouse.[6]

Current activities

Thames was one of five clubs which retained the right until 2012 to appoint representatives to the Council of British Rowing. The others were Leander Club, London Rowing Club, Oxford University Boat Club and Cambridge University Boat Club.[7]

Results

Recent wins at British Rowing Championships

(Composites marked with an asterisk)

See also

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 29 May 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. Page, Geoffrey (1991). Hear The Boat Sing. Kingswood Press. ISBN 0-413-65410-9.
  3. "Thames Rowing Club".
  4. Sport, ancient and modern: Pastimes, A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 2: General; Ashford, East Bedfont with Hatton, Feltham, Hampton with Hampton Wick, Hanworth, Laleham, Littleton (1911), pp. 283–292. Date accessed: 8 October 2008
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 30 August 2011. Retrieved 29 May 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 29 May 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. "Corporate Governance Structure". British Rowing. Archived from the original on 20 January 2013. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  8. "National Championships". The Times. 17 July 2000.
  9. "The Daily results service". The Times. 23 July 2001. p. 10.
  10. "The results service". The Times. 22 July 2002. p. 26.
  11. "The Results Service". The Times. 19 July 2004. p. 28.
  12. "Nautilus cruise". The Times. 18 July 2005. p. 53.
  13. "Rowing". The Times. 17 July 2006. p. 57.
  14. "2007 archive of results". Web Archive. Archived from the original on 6 December 2016.
  15. "2008 archive of results". Web Archive. Archived from the original on 6 December 2016.
  16. "2010 Championships - Results of Sunday Racing". British Rowing Championships. Archived from the original on 6 December 2016.

Further reading
  • Page, Geoffrey (1991). Hear The Boat Sing. Kingswood Press. ISBN 0-413-65410-9.
  • Charles Dickens (Jr.), Dickens's Dictionary of the Thames, 1881
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