Past Additions & Updates to This Website
February 2022
This month we see the following interesting additions:
- A short history of the Balmain Working Men's Rowing Club (later Enterprise Rowing Club) by Beverley Malone, the Balmain Rowing Club archivist. This club thrived pre WWI winning the NSW Champion Eights in 1913. Sadly a devastating fire destroyed the Club in 1917 and it never recovered.
- Much effort has been put into rower profiles this month with many interesting stories added.
- Firstly the profiles of the 1972 and 1976 rowing Olympians have been added which include the very sad stories of selected Olympians Brian Denny and Ian McWhirter, Brian dying before the Games and Ian shortly thereafter.
- More great school coaches have been added this month with Lindsay Southcott from SA, Ian Luxford from QLD and Michael Morgan from NSW, all also involved with our Olympic rowing. Thanks to Colin Smith for Lindsay Southcott's profile.
- Included in the interesting historical profiles is the Cazaly family, brothers James, Peter and John. We thank Kate Elliott for bringing these to light. They were leading lights in early Victorian rowing. James was regarded as the best oarsman and sculler by many of that time, and was also the father of Roy Cazaly of AFL fame.
- Finally, a Rockhampton oarsman William D'Arcy who is regarded by Prof Geoff Blainey as one of the most influential men in the Middle East since Mohammed. Find out why.
December 2021
December 2021 brings the following new items to the site.
- A new chapter has been added, Peter Bond's history of the NSW Central Districts Rowing Association. Thank you Peter for making this work available to the site and thank you Hope Stewart for the design work. The Central Districts Clubs are numerous in number and are a key part of NSW rowing.
- Rowing profiles continue to be added at a good rate and thank you to Kate Elliott for her continued stream of Ballarat City rower profiles. An interesting story added for Thomas Gilchrist, who had a small but important part in the federation of Australia. He was also a foundation member of Mercantile Rowing Club.
- Also, more Victorian APS Head of the River results and pages are regularly being added.
- Considerable updates to the Brisbane Schoolgirls Rowing Association regatta have been added.
August 2021
More work continued during August despite there being much rowing activity. This work included:
- Addition of Paralympic results and commentary
- Another 80 rower profiles added to the 1100 already published. Another 10,000 remain in various stages of completion. New profiles are always sought with Ballarat City Rowing Club profiles added this month by Kate Elliott and Antwerp and Jeparit Rowing Club profiles added by Graham Drage.
- Tasmanian SATIS Head of the River continues but we seek more information for this regatta from competitors.
May 2021
Despite no advice of changes having been made, the author, web designer and the researchers of this website have been busy.
Some of the more significant additions have been in the following areas.
- Over 700 rower profiles created
- National Championships updated.
- Victorian Championship updated
- NSW AAGPS Head of the River
- NSW Schoolgirls Head of the River
- QLD GPS Head of the River
- TAS SATIS Head of the River well underway
- WA PSA Head of the River - now well advanced
Much more will be added over the coming months.
April 2020
The website creators have been busy during the past 3 months. The following sections have been added:
- More rower profiles
- Victorian APS Head of the River - more years added
- Victorian Head of the Schoolgirls - many years added
- Victorian Head of the Lake - more years added
- WA PSA Head of the River - commenced and now well advanced
- National Championships updated
- And much more
January 2020
- 2019 World Championships results
- 2019 World Under 23 Championships results
- 2019 World Junior Championships results
- 2019 Trans Tasman Under 21 Series results
- 2019 Interstate Championships results
- 2005-2019 National Championships results - images to follow
- 1888-2018 Victorian State Championships results
November 2018 - Launch of our new website!
We are pleased to announce the launch of our new website. We are, however, still migrating our thousands of webpages from the old platform into new templates on the new platform, so our website will have a mixed look until this job is completed. The sections yet to be migrated can be found at: www.australianrowinghistory.com.au.
With this new website come several new sections:
- Rower Profiles - an on-going project currently with over 120 profiles
- City of Warrnambool Rowing Club history
- Preston Rowing Club history
- Richmond Rowing Club history
- Head of the Schoolgirls (Victoria)
- AAGPS Schoolboys Head of the River (NSW)
- Rowing Victoria State Championships
- Australian Rowers at Henley Royal Regatta (still under construction)
September 2018
August 2018
November 2017
- Report of the competition for the design of Rowing Victoria WWI Memorial
- 1979 Interstate Championships photo gallery
- 1980 Olympic Games photo gallery
- 1987 APS Head of the River
- 1988 APS Head of the River
- 2016 Under 23 World Championships results
- 2016 Under 19 World Championships
- 2017 Under 19 World Championships
- 2017 Under 21 Trans Tasman Series results
- Additions to profile of Stuart Elder
- Additions to the profile of Dushan Stankovich
- Profile added of John Jopling
July 2017
June 2017
- 1984 World University Games photos added
- 1932-54 APS Head of the River updates
May 2017
April 2017
- 2017 Interstate Championships added
- 1868-1905 APS Head of the River additions