Photograph of Sir Steve Redgrave in an indoor rowing training pool. Beside him are Olympic gold medallist Tessa Sanderson and Kate Hoey Minister for Sport 1999 - 2001.
Black and white photograph of Margaret Barff, female sculler.
Pictured in a sculling boat, having won the Women's Sculling Championship, 1929. Photographed by London News Agency Photos Ltd.
Margaret Barff started rowing in the early 1920s with the Ace Rowing Club. in 1927 she was a founder member of Alpha Womens Rowing, being Captain and Secretary over the ensuing years. She rowed mainly from Tom Green's Boathouse at Barnes Bridge on the River Thames. She rowed in the Women's Amateur Sculling Championships many times, and in 1929 beat another well known sculler, Amy Gentry. In the early 1930s she was diagnosed with a heart condition and gave up racing but continued to coach and contribute to the womens rowing scene for a further 50 years.
Black and white photograph of Stuart Mackenzie winning the Diamond Sculls at the 1960 Henley Royal Regatta. He beat T Kocerka of Poland. Taken on the 15 July 1960.
Glass plate negative of a boat crush at Henley Royal Regatta. Throughout the Victorian period Henley became a major social event, which grew in popularity in the Edwardian period. Today the Regatta is still descended upon in great numbers, both by spectators on foot and in a wide variety of leisure craft which vie for space as they continually cruise up and down the length of the course.
Photograph from the George Bushell Collection
George Bushell came to Henley in 1919 and took over the task of taking photographs of Henley and its surroundings from two predecessors, called Marsh and Marshall. Bushell died in the 1960s but his business was carried on by his son and grandson. It is his grandson, also called George Bushell, who has donated this important collection of photographs and glass plate negatives to the Museum. This unique collection provides a fascinating view of the changing face of Henley and the Thames over the last century.
Part of negative set number 122 in George Bushell's notebook