Thames Tradesmen's Rowing Club

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Thames Tradesmen's Rowing Club
Emblem: Pair of crossed pre-1960 "standard" ("square") golden oars around red T T R C, green wreath and base.
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LocationUniversity of London Boathouse, Hartington Road, W4
Coordinates 51°28′23″N0°15′18″W / 51.473°N 0.255°W / 51.473; -0.255
Home water Tideway, River Thames
Founded1897
MembershipNo qualification/academic restrictions to admission
Affiliations British Rowing
boat code: TTR
Website www.ttrc.org.uk
Distinctions
4-time winners of Henley's Grand Cup for club eights (incepted 1839) (1975 to 1981)

The Thames Tradesmen's Rowing Club is a rowing club on the Tideway (upper estuary of the Thames) in West London, United Kingdom at University of London Boathouse, Hartington Road, Chiswick W4.

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Foundation and colours

The club was established in 1897. Its kit colours are white, claret and green [n 1] [1] If the claret dates to two years or more later it may be a nod to Thames Ironworks F.C. [2] If adopted later, the order is the same and top colour only a slight shade different from the suffragette flag, devised in 1908 and widely seen until the 1920s.

Ethos

Until 1956, the club was one of the leading and few London members of the National Amateur Rowing Association and helped to bring about the gradual merger with the Amateur Rowing Association for people in 'non-physical' work, to which were affiliated the various clubs on the Putney Embankment. The club continues to stand firmly against social barriers and has inducted and enhanced the fitness and technical ability of rowers including international-standard oarsmen since the 1960s. [3] The club's leaders over decades of the 20th century won its successful campaign with Poplar Blackwall and District Rowing Club and other NARA clubs – most of which were from the industrial heartlands of Britain – for non-exclusivity in rowing events and national teams, as evidenced in Rowing in England: A Social History. [3] These two clubs in London thus have the strongest record of openness and widening of participation. [3] GB Rowing now has many leading athletes who are not alumni of the old, well-endowed schools and universities which set up the earliest competitions in the sport.

Training

Thames Tradesmen compete in the Head of the River Race and its three offshoots for smaller boats than eights each year. The club organizes a training camp each year before Henley Royal Regatta. During the Summer Season, TTRC is prominent on the regatta circuit and look to peak at Henley and The National Championships. [4]

Setting

Alongside Barnes Bridge Ladies Rowing Club, the club is the closest club to Barnes, much of Chiswick, Acton, the London Borough of Brent and Roehampton. Its size and dedicated long slipway make it attractive to schools and in subscription price for central, west, north-west and south-west London. Its coaching/coxes rooms and broad boat bays are in a very large two-storey building. The upstairs is a shared clubroom and ten changing rooms sponsored by the local London borough divided up at weekends with two clubs sharing the rugby and football fields adjoining. [3]

Its clubroom and shared lounge is large and overlooks most of Barnes's ornate riverside buildings. [3]

Honours

Henley Royal Regatta

YearRaces won
1971 Stewards' Challenge Cup Silver Goblets & Nickalls' Challenge Cup
1973 Wyfold Challenge Cup
1975 Grand Challenge Cup Wyfold Challenge Cup
1976 Grand Challenge Cup Prince Philip Challenge Cup
1977 Silver Goblets & Nickalls' Challenge Cup
1978 Silver Goblets & Nickalls' Challenge Cup
1979 Grand Challenge Cup Double Sculls Challenge Cup
1981 Grand Challenge Cup Stewards' Challenge Cup Queen Mother Challenge Cup
1982 Women's Invitation Single Sculls
1985 Queen Mother Challenge Cup

Recent British champions

YearWinning crew/s
1996 Women 8+c, Men L4-, Women L1x [5]
1997 Men L8+, Women L1x [6]
1999 Men 2-, Women 4x, Women L4x, Men J18 1x [7]
2001 Women 2- [8]
2003 Women J15 4x+ [9]

Notes and references

Notes
  1. ↑ All-in-one lycras since 2010 are black and white with claret and green trim (and both as chest bands, but no chest bands – so white in the compression/"tech" top) other splashproof kit is mainly black.
References
  1. ↑ British Rowing
  2. ↑ Belton, B., Dale, I. (2015). The Thames Ironworks: A History of East London Industrial and Sporting Heritage. United Kingdom: History Press.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Eric Halladay Rowing in England: A Social History – The Amateur Debate
  4. ↑ Thames Trademen's Rowing Club
  5. ↑ ""For the Record." Times, 22 July 1996, p. 39". The Times. 22 July 1996. p. 39.
  6. ↑ "Full archive of results". Web Archive. Archived from the original on 13 March 2017.
  7. ↑ ""For the Record." Times, 19 July 1999, p. 40". The Times. 19 July 1999. p. 40.
  8. ↑ ""The Daily results service." Times, 23 July 2001, p. 10". The Times. 23 July 2001. pp. 10S.
  9. ↑ ""Today's fixtures." Times, 21 July 2003, p. 32". The Times. 21 July 2003. p. 32.

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