annual competitions; with the
winner of the 50 yards
Novice Race being awarded a
silver pencil case, and the
winner of Walking the
Slippery Pole receiving an
‘oak electro butter dish’. In
July 1886 the press reported
that the ‘first race for the
championship of this rising
Club came off in the river
Thames early on Monday
morning when, despite
inclement weather a fair
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