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125th Birthday drinks - 12th Feb
12th February 2015
Birthday Beers in the Duke's Head on 12th Feb. A jolly good session, right up until we drank the bar dry of brown beer! ...
Commcept 2?
3rd February 2015
The blogster's recent discovery of a known brand ergo in a Cuban gym prompted a question to the rest of the squad. Where's the most far flung place you've trained on an ergo? 10K UT2 in Beijing? 2K test in Tuvalu? Feel free to post your international ergo experiences below....
Quintin Head - January
24th January 2015
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Subbing in
12th January 2015
Gentlemen, It's that time of year again; all the festive food has been guzzled, the decorations taken down and now the Cygnet treasurer will soon be on your case to collect this year's subscription. Being of the Old Skool, he much prefers a nice big fat cheque for the full amount to...
CXXV
1st January 2015
Cygnet Rowing club was founded on 12th February 1890 at the Duke's Head in Putney. 2015 will therefore be our 125th continuous year as an active rowing club on the Thames Tideway. Naturally, we're planning a few celebrations to mark the occasion. Essentially we are going to 'boost' some of...
50th Anniversary
1st January 2015
In 1965 a group of intrepid Cygnets decided they wanted to go to the European Rowing Championships in Duisburg. Looking for somewhere to stay they contacted the West German Rowing Federation who put them in touch with a rowing club in a Düsseldorf suburb called RG Benrath. To cut a long story...
2014/15 Annual report
1st January 2015
2014/15 Annual Report ...
December newsletter
28th December 2014
December newsletter: Remembering Fred, Bungalow boats, "100 years ago" ...
Merry Christmas everyone!
24th December 2014
Well for many of us the Head season has now taken that festive pause and it was great to sign off with a surprisingly solid row in a scratch crew during Sunday's Plum Puddings training piece. Cheeky post Christmas outings were hatched in the bar afterwards so some expect some 'unofficial'...
The 2014 Waddle
11th December 2014
We are now a mere 72 hours away from the annual Barnes Bridge Ladies Christmas bash and you are still in need of vital information, namely the finalised pre-Party Waddle details. There have been a few tweaks to the Waddle itinery, in part to correct the flawed assumption that it will take...
