| Title |
BOAT CLUB |
| Reference |
SECS/1
(former reference: SC O/1) |
| Covering Dates |
1882–2006 |
| Extent and Medium |
10 boxes, 8 volumes; paper and other |
|
| Content and context |
|
Includes minutes, blades, cups, programmes and a collection of memorabilia formerly on display in the McEldowney Room (F9)
Presumably early minutes books were transferred to the Archives by the Boat Club; various items were transferred from the McEldowney Room (the Boat Club Captain's room) to the Archives for safe-keeping in March 2006; some electronic copies of recent minutes and other items are gradually being transferred to the Archives. All Boat Club items are being maintained together as part of the Boat Club Archives.
|
| Further information |
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See articles on the history of the Boat Club in the College Calendar (for details see complete list of calendar articles in HISTORY)
For photographs of Boat Club see SEPH/2/3/1; For McEldowney Collection (items purchased from e-bay in June 2006) see SEPP/MAC
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| Selwyn/SECS/1 contains: |
|
1
|
Boat Club minutes.
8 volumes; Paper. |
1882–2005 |
|
2
|
Novices minute book.
1 volume; Paper. |
1988–1994 |
|
3
|
Women's Boat Club.
Paper. |
1976–2005 |
|
4
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Boat Club scrapbook. Includes a menu for June 1946.
1 volume; Paper. |
1946–1959 |
|
5
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Boat Club dinners. Includes menus for May Bumps Supper, Fairbairn Dinners and other boat club dinners.
26 items; Paper. |
1899–1986 |
|
6
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Accounts and papers. Accounts and papers of the Boat Club Special Fund with correspondence from George Trench to Mr. Knott.
1 file; Paper. |
1902–1904 |
|
7
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Selwyn College Permanent Henley Fund. Report and memories of Boat Club 2nd March 2002 from reunion dinner; Newsletter 2005, 2011;.
2 items; Paper. |
2 March 2002–2011 |
|
8
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Boat Club cups and tankards.
Various cups; pewter. |
1862–1935 |
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9
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Boat Club programmes.
1 bundle; Paper. |
1991–2006 |
|
10
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Blades and oars.
15 blades; wood. |
1885–2000 |
|
11
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Boat Club artefacts. Including stern of the Southern Cross 1883, two trophy rudders 1926, the Boat Club flag. Also includes rowing advice and technique books that were once house in the boat house 'sketches and the rise and progress of rowing at Cambridge', Steve Fairbairn's published bibliography of rowing related publications, 'on the grammar of rowing' by Edmond Warre;.
4 items; other. |
1883–1926 |
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12
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Boat Club papers.
3 items; Paper. |
1926–2009 |
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13
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Boat Club race book. Includes times of races, comparisons to other boat teams and general remarks including weather conditions. Also notebook containing notes on Lent races 1991.
1 item; Paper. |
13 October 1927–1991 |
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14
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May Bumps.
5 items; Paper. |
June 1919-June 1985 |
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15
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Cambridge and Oxford Boat Race programmes.
2 items; Paper. |
1929 |
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16
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Boat Club Publications.
1 item; Paper. |
1972 |
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