Wadham College Boat Club race card for "The Eights", May 22-28 1947.
White card, folded into three with turquoise single line border on the front middle section with the title in turquoise reading "The Eights, May 22-28 1947" and "Wadham College Boat Club". On the other two sides is a list of crew members. Inside is a table for results with college names and boxes for ticking.
"Do Cleaner Rivers Mean the Swan Song of a British Ritual?"
Front page of newspaper (The Wall Street Journal, 22 July 1982) with article on the decline in swan numbers on the Thames, due to lead poisoning from fishing weights (as a result of increased fishing due to higher fish numbers in the cleaner Thames)
Wadham College Boat Club race card for "The Eights", May 22-28 1947.
White card, folded into three with turquoise single line border on the front middle section with the title in turquoise reading "The Eights, May 22-28 1947" and "Wadham College Boat Club". On the other two sides is a list of crew members. Inside is a table for results with college names and boxes for ticking. Chart completed in blue ink and autographed all over card.
From the effects of JG Vincent, a former member of Royal Chester Rowing Club.