Thames Tradesmen's Rowing Club

Thames Tradesmen's Rowing Club
Image showing the rowing club's blade colours
Location Dukes Meadows, Chiswick, London, W4 2SH
Home water Tideway, River Thames
Founded 1897
Affiliations British Rowing
Website www.ttrc.org.uk

The Thames Tradesmen's Rowing Club is a rowing club on the River Thames in London, United Kingdom at Chiswick Boathouse, 100m north-west of Barnes Railway Bridge, London.

Established in 1897, its kit colours are white, claret (a form of red) and green[n 1][1] 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.

Training

Thames Tradesmen compete in the Head of the River Race and its three offshoots for smaller boats than eights each year. The club organises 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.[2]

Setting

Alongside Barnes Bridge Ladies Rowing Club, Thames Tradesmen's is the closest club to Barnes, much of W4 (Chiswick) and to Roehampton but its affordable rates and size enable TTRC to cater to a wide area without rowing clubs in west, north-west and south London. Crews have exclusive use of downstairs in a very large two-storey building with ten changing rooms, sponsored by the local London Borough to enable the top half of the premises to be divided up at weekends, with two clubs sharing the rugby and football fields adjoining.

Its clubroom is large with a well-glazed view of the Barnes ornate riverside buildings across the river. It has a rich history and has inducted and enhanced the fitness and technical ability a wide range of rowers including international-standard oarsmen since the 1960s. Thames Tradesmen is a friendly open club which accepts all abilities and is always open to new members.[3]

Notes and references

Notes
  1. ↑ All-in-ones remain top-half black, lycra for crews since 2010 or beyond is white and may be issued with opposing claret and green stripes, see port (nautical)/starboard
References
  1. ↑ British Rowing
  2. ↑ Thames Trademen's Rowing Club
  3. ↑ Eric Halladay Rowing in England: A Social History - The Amateur Debate

See also

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