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Peter Sly's funeral
15th March 2015
Peter Sly's funeral will be taking place at 2pm on Thursday 26th March at St Nicholas' Church, Remenham, with a celebration afterwards at Old Blades. All are welcome and the family would love to see as many club members and friends there as feel able make it. They would also like it made clear...
Peter Sly
9th March 2015
Cygnet RC are very sad to announce the death this afternoon (Monday 9th March) of our President, Peter Sly. Peter, who had been ill for some time, died peacefully at home surrounded by his family. The whole club extend their most heartfelt condolences to Pat, Pru and Oscar. ...
Henley Head
24th February 2015
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"Happy Birthday to us..."
22nd February 2015
"...Happy Birthday to us, Happy Birthday to Cygnet, Happy birthday to us". A splendid turn out at the Duke's Head for the occasion of our 125th birthday drinkies. Not bad at all in fact, considering it was a school night, with good smattering old (past) members putting in an appearance as...
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...
