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NORTH STAFFS ROWING CLUB
The Oarsman’s Song.
The willowy sway
of the hands away,
And the water boiling aft
The elastic sprung,
and the steel spring
That drives the flying craft
All through the swing
he hears the boat sing
As she glides on her flying track
Then he gathers aft
to strike the craft
with a ringing
hell-note crack.
The club was formed on the 15th July 1970 by a small group of rowers at Trentham Gardens. They boated from a converted building at the monument end of the 1 mile long lake. Later the former Winter storage building for the Gardens two paddle-steamer vessels became the boat-house. The annual subscription was set at £3.
The following decade saw its Junior squad attain two Silver medals at the Home International Regatta, and a place in the final of the Junior under 16’s Coxed 4‘s (J16 4+). That particular crew trained before they went to school also won every regatta they entered in the North-West Region for that event. (and of course every heat that preceded the final.)
Junior section startup and next Start Rowing course
