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Cuttack Legionnaires
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THE CUTTACK ROWING CLUB
ollowing on from the success of the Great River Race in 2018, the task for 2019 was to find another suitable challenge for us to take part in – sadly the dates for the Great River Race 2019 did not match the availability of most of the original crew – or at least those that professed to wanting to give it another go. ‘Didi’ (the boat) is now a fully paid up member of the Thames Traditional Rowing Association (TTRA) who organise a number of races/ challenges in order “to support and promote the sport of traditional fixed seat rowing and sculling on the River Thames”. Other members of the TTRA include a number of livery companies and City based institutions.
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The Tudor Pull The Tudor Pull is an annual ceremonial event, this year involving the Queen’s Royal barge Gloriana, the Royal shallop Jubilant, the Company of Watermen and Lightermen’s shallop Lady Mayoress and accompanying cutters, and assorted other craft, all decked out in full regalia, rowing twenty-five miles down the Thames from Hampton Court to the Tower of London. The main aim is to deliver to the Governor of the Tower a symbolic stela (a piece of medieval water-pipe made of hollowed-out elm) and thus to promote the use of the Thames for transport. The event also commemorates the sinking of Eleanor of Provence’s barge, and the drowning of one of her courtiers, the Lady of the Bedchamber, under Old London Bridge, in 1256.
