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27th March 201028th September 2023canoeing, rowing, sailing, water sports

The Tideway: a Mecca for rowing

Before the Redgrave era, the Oxford & Cambridge Boat Race was virtually the only rowing ever seen on British television.  First contested […]

17th March 201028th September 2023rugby

What do the last three Six Nations Grand Slams have in common?

This post is slightly off the topic of sporting landmarks, but topical as Rugby’s 2010 Six Nations reaches its climax. Chapter 1 […]

11th March 201028th September 2023athletics, cricket, cycling, football, rugby, tennis

The Six Nations and the origins international rugby

Each spring, Murrayfield, Twickenham, the Aviva Stadium on Dublin’s Lansdowne Road and the Millennium Stadium become places of pilgrimage for rugby enthusiasts.  […]

4th February 201028th September 2023Olympics, summer Olympic sports, tennis

Scotland’s first winner of a tennis major

On the morning that Andy Murray unsuccessfully contested his second tennis major final in Melbourne in 2010, the Independent on Sunday ran […]

15th January 201025th January 2024ice hockey, Olympics, skating, winter Olympic sports

Prince’s, Knightsbridge: the first Olympic ice-sport venue

This week’s tragic earthquake in Haiti appears to have prompted a tweet from London 2012 linking to a web page that reminds […]

12th January 201028th September 2023curling, winter Olympic sports

Lake of Monteith, Stirling; would-be venue for rare curling bonspiel

Sorry to read that the hopes of Scottish curlers for a rare “bonspiel” have melted away. One of the most eagerly awaited […]

11th January 201027th November 2023rugby, women

Enniskillen – birthplace of women’s rugby

Hot on the heels of my post on the origins of sevens rugby, Simon Barnes wrote about a landmark for women’s rugby […]

22nd November 200928th September 2023curling, museums, winter Olympic sports

Mapping historical curling places at the Royal Caledonian Curling Club

While creating the map of sporting museums and collections, I was browsing around the website of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club when […]

1st November 200928th September 2023museums, rowing

Chiswick: the first blue plaque for a British sportsman

One of the speakers at the Rowing History Forum at the River & Rowing Museum in Henley on 31 October 2009 was […]

1st November 200928th September 2023museums, Olympics

Our Sporting Life – a 2012 initiative from Britain’s sporting museums

a search for the sporting memories, heroes, objects, photographs and experiences that have inspired the nation

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