ROWING commentator Robert Treharne Jones is ready to get back behind the microphone, almost a year after suffering a stroke. Known as the “voice of rowing”, he has been a senior race commentator with FISA, the international rowing federation, for more...
BUSINESSES recorded their busiest Henley Royal Regatta week in memory. Shaun Dickens, who runs Bistro at the Boathouse in Station Road, said the Friday of regatta week was the busiest day in his restaurant’s history, with 500 covers. He said that...
ROWING clubs in Henley celebrated key milestones in their history by completing row-pasts at this year’s royal regatta. Two Leander Club crews, the winners of the 1975 Britannia Challenge Cup and the 1985 winners of the Ladies’ Challenge Plate,...
THOMAS Eliot Weil, a rowing historian, collector and philanthropist, passed away aged 75 on Sunday, September 1. He was an ex-trustee of the River & Rowing Museum in Henley as well as the museum’s largest object donor. He worked tirelessly throughout...
THIS year’s Henley Royal Regatta was one of the wettest on record as spectators watched much of the racing from under umbrellas. After a sunny start on Tuesday and Wednesday last week, it became increasingly wet and the rowing on Friday, Saturday and...