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Hugh Jones

Here's another - posted 27.5.903, and showing Christ Church College Oxford's colours, and a photograph of four boats racing past the university barges, in the "Eight oar bumping races"

That year, New College won overall, being crowned "Head of the River"



Old postcard showing a rowing race at Oxford during eights week. The landscape orientation card has a monochrome photograph of a rowing race on the river, four boats racing in a line; on the river bank are several barges with crowds on them, and beyond them trees. To the right of the card is a sketch of the Christchurch College Oxford colours, blue with a white cross, and blue oars. Printed on the foot of the card in red capitals is "Oxford University eight-oar bumping races", and there is a handwritten message top and bottom, mostly illegible
May 25, 2023, 07:37 AM·Public
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