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River relay returns for third year
21/08/15
...Rivertime Boat Trust will then deliver it to the River and Rowing Museum in Henley on board its 42ft vessel Rivertime. The HENLEY WHALERS will pick up the bottle on Monday and take it to Hambleden Lock, where it will be collected by members of Bisham Abbey's...
Source to Sea relay in Henley this weekend
18/08/15
...Rivertime Boat Trust will then deliver it to the River and Rowing Museum in Henley on board its 42ft vessel Rivertime. The HENLEY WHALERS will pick the bottle up on Monday and take it to Hambleden Lock, where it will be collected by members of Bisham Abbey's...
Volunteers take water on Thames river relay
16/09/13
...through Henley this week on a 215-mile journey to the sea. Members of the Rivertime Boat Trust, Henley Rowing Club and the HENLEY WHALERS joined the Source to Sea river relay, which is part of the Mayor of London’s Thames Festival. The bottle or “baton” is being...
Mayor attempts 66-mile cycle ride... in a day
06/05/14
...Wood Road, Henley, David Fielding-Smith, of Walton Avenue, Henley, and Paul Waterman, from Sonning Common, a member of the HENLEY WHALERS. The proceeds will be split between Sue Ryder, Age UK Oxfordshire, the Chiltern Centre for disabled children, Riverside...
28/04/14
Henley groups join in Thames relay
12/09/13
A bottle of water from the source of the Thames was escorted through Henley on a relay to the sea.
Baton passed in Source to Sea relay
28/08/14
...sea made its way via Henley over the Bank Holiday weekend. Members of the Rivertime Boat Trust, Henley Rowing Club and the HENLEY WHALERS joined the 215-mile Source to Sea river relay for the second year running. The event is part of the Mayor of Londons Thames...
29/10/14
Bottle of water passes through on Thames source to sea relay
...of the Thames to the sea made its way through Henley. Members of the Rivertime Boat Trust, Henley Rowing Club and the HENLEY WHALERS joined the 215-mile Source to Sea river relay for the second year running. The event is part of the Totally Thames festival...
Mayor gets on his bike for charity
25/04/14
Henley Whalers
03/12/18
...in Venice and past the Tower of London and Houses of Parliament and sailed in the splendour of Sweden and Brittany, but the HENLEY WHALERS’ latest adventure included a slightly less exotic trip... through a Reading shopping cente. Every autumn the Whalers do a...
Flotilla for King Charles III
11/05/23
...the river. We are going to award some prizes which will be handed out at the ‘Trad’ later this year.” Geoff Probert, of the HENLEY WHALERS, and his crew of 11 rowed in Molly, a replica whale boat. He said the flotilla was “great fun”, adding: “The weather could...
Friends make song and dance in field
15/07/23
...a shame you’re so far away, there’s only two flights a day to Gatwick.” Kathy Mansfield, from Wallingford and part of the HENLEY WHALERS, said: “It used to be held in Nuneham Courtenay and there is normally about 50 people — it’s just so delightful. I think it...
Visitors have whale of a time at Venetian rowing festival
09/06/18
...traffic jams in Henley are bad, they’re nothing compared with what Geoff Probert experienced last month. He owns Molly, the HENLEY WHALERS’ boat, which took part in the Vogalonga, a non-competitive recreational sporting event for amateur rowers that takes place...
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