The Thames Tradesmen's Rowing Club is a

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club on the

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(upper estuary of the

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) in

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, United Kingdom at Chiswick Boathouse, 100 metres north-west of Barnes Railway & Footbridge – beyond which is

Barnes Bridge railway station Barnes Bridge railway station, in Travelcard Zone 3, is on The Terrace, Barnes in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, in south west London. The station and all trains serving it are operated by South Western Railway. It is on the Houns ...

. Other footpaths link to Old Chiswick, Chiswick High Road and Strand-on-the-Green.

Foundation and colours

The club was established in 1897. Its kit colours are white,

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and green If the claret dates to two years or more later it may be a nod to

Thames Ironworks F.C. Thames Ironworks Football Club, the club that later became West Ham United F.C., West Ham United, was founded by Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Co. Ltd owner Arnold Hills and foreman Dave Taylor (Thames Ironworks F.C. founder), Dave Taylor in ...

If adopted later, the order is the same and top colour only a slight shade different from the

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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 The National Amateur Rowing Association (NARA) was founded in 1890 to cater for the large number of working-class men who were prevented from joining the Amateur Rowing Association (ARA) by virtue of their manual occupations. (According to the i ...

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

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. 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. The club's leaders over decades of the 20th century won its successful campaign with

Poplar Blackwall and District Rowing Club Poplar Blackwall and District Rowing Club is a rowing club in Millwall, on the River Thames in England, on the northern bank of the Thames opposite Greenwich on the Isle of Dogs, London. Club history Poplar Blackwall and District Rowing Club was ...

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''. These two clubs in London thus have the strongest record of openness and widening of participation. Eric Halladay ''Rowing in England: A Social History – The Amateur Debate'' 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

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and its three offshoots for smaller boats than eights each year. The club organizes a training camp each year before

Henley Royal Regatta Henley Royal Regatta (or Henley Regatta, its original name pre-dating Royal patronage) is a rowing event held annually on the River Thames by the town of Henley-on-Thames, England. It was established on 26 March 1839. It differs from the thre ...

. During the Summer Season, TTRC is prominent on the regatta circuit and look to peak at Henley and The National Championships.Thames Trademen's Rowing Club
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Setting

Alongside Barnes Bridge Ladies Rowing Club, the club is the closest club to

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, much of Chiswick, Acton, the London Borough of Brent and

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

Foundation and colours

Ethos

Training

Setting

Honours

Henley Royal Regatta

Recent British champions

Notes and references

See also