Item 1884/2 - Boat Club Photograph Album, 1884

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JCCA/JCCS/2/9/1884/2

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Boat Club Photograph Album, 1884

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  • c. 1883 - c. 1884 (Creation)

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14 items, photographic prints

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Collection of twelve photographs showing rowing scenes from 1883 and 1884. Some contain members of Jesus College:

  1. Camb Varsity Crew, February 1884. Names on board read Gridley (3rd Trinity), Ayre (Corpus), H. Straker (Jesus), S. Swann (Trinity Hall), Churchill (3rd Trinity), T. Haig (3rd Trinity), E. Moore (Christs), F. Pitman (3rd Trinity), C. E. Tyndale-Biscoe (Jesus), E. Rhodes (Jesus). Photograph taken outside the University 'Goldie' boathouse. Also shows 'Logan' and Bill Asplen (boatman)

  1. 'Waiting at Ditton for the Boats'. Photograph showing crowds at Fen Ditton sheltering under umbrellas

  2. 'Baitsbite lock'

  3. 'Oxford crew at work'. Photograph showing the Oxford boat crew on the Thames. Names on board read A. G. Shortt (Christchurch), I. Stock (Exeter), C. R. Carter (Corpus Christi), R. W. Taylor (Lincoln), D. H. McLean (New), A. R. Patterson (Trinity), C. W. Blandy (Exeter), W. D. R. Curry (Exeter), H. J. Humphreys

  4. 'Starting from the varsity barge'

  5. 'The last smoke - Cambridge University Crew, 1883'. Cartoon showing members of the Cambridge University crew with photographs of individuals' heads superimposed onto cartoon. Names on board read Merrick, Fox, P. W. Atkin, S. Fairbairn, E. Moore, L. Hunt, S. Swann, Gridley, Beecham

  6. Photographic postcard titled 'the gay bargee'. Names on board readH. Gridley, F. Pitman, H. Hake, S. Swann, H. Straker, E. Moore, C. E. Tyndale-Briscoe, Churchill, Ayre

  7. 'University Trial Eights'. Names on board read Scott (Caius), Scraggs (St. Johns), Churchill (3rd Trinity), J. Haig (3rd Trinity), S. Fairbairn (Jesus), Bristowe (Trinity Hall), C. E. Tyndale-Briscoe (Jesus). Two names are missing from the list although one appears to have been at Caius and the other Cavendish (presumably the laboratory)

  8. 'The Rowbuck Hotel, Tilehurst - where the Cambridge Crew stayed whilst training on the Thames in March 1884'. Photograph of hotel taken from river at back of hotel

  9. 'Mapledurham lock'

  10. 'View from the drawing room at the Rowbuck, the GWR and the Thames, 3 miles above Reading'

  11. 'Varsity crew and coach at work opposite the Rowbuck'. Photograph shows rowers in boat and steam boat following

  12. Oxford crew 1884. Names on board read A. G. Shortt, L. Stock, R. W. Taylor, C. R. Carter, C. W. Blandy, M. McLean, W. Curry, H. Patterson, F. J. Humphries

  13. 'The starting point of the varsity race'. Photograph shows Putney bridge and aquaduct

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