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‘this art . . . has made little if
any progress from the earliest
records that we possess of it’.
Next in the pile is The
Encyclopaedia of Sport,
volume II, 1898, which
provides an explanation of
the strokes alongside
photographs. I’m beginning
to think there is little here
related to Henley, when I lift
another book to find a copy
of an old sepia postcard of the
Henley Baths. They were