AROUND KINGSWEAR
KINGSWEAR HISTORIANS May’s talk was ‘The Amazing Brunels’ which was given by yours truly. It was about time I penned something resembling sense. The meeting was quite well-attended considering it was Bank Holiday Monday and people had families visiting and all that. The last talk of the season will have taken place now; it was to be Richard Haddock talking on his experiences of mining in Cornwall. The Kingswear Historians have bucket-and-spade time during July and August but the season of talks begins again on september 20th
. usual place, the village hall, usual time, 7:30pm. All most welcome of course.
DAKFAS June’s lecture at the local Dartmouth branch of the National
Association of Decorative and Fine Arts society was given by susie Harries and concerned Nikolaus Pevsner whose biography susie has written. We were treated to a very well-researched and thorough overview of the remarkable Pevsner and his astounding achievement of cataloguing all the architecturally interesting buildings of Britain, county by county. In the course of one lecture it only made sense to concentrate on Devon buildings and these were shown, beautifully photographed, to great acclaim. I would really like to take the opportunity to draw your attention to the DAKFAS lectures which are held in the Flavel on the second Monday of the month at 2:30pm. The quality of the lectures is astounding and very varied, certainly one of the days in the month I really look forward to. This season’s cycle has just finished with this lecture but next season’s starts on october 13th
with ‘Fakes and Forgeries.
The Art of Deception’ to be given by Malcolm Kenwood. Apparently a high percentage of all artworks are fakes, so if you want an insight into the methods used by criminals to dupe the art market come along on october 13th
to find out. I can
promise you will not be disappointed. It costs £8 to attend a lecture as a non-member but by far the best deal is to join the organisation when you get a bargain 9 lectures for £42 if you pay by standing order. And they give you tea and biscuits too. What more could you ask?
KINGSWEAR ROWING &
KINGSWEAR ROWING CLUB With the KIngswear Regatta imminent, I asked graham sowerby to russle up a potted history of Kingswear rowing: “With the ever increasing popularity of ‘local’ rowing at the Port of
Dartmouth Royal Regatta, more and more young people from the East bank of the river were entering into whaler and pair oared races. Dartmouth had its gig club and over time several four oared boats, known as Seine Boats, began to appear on the Dart. By the end of the 1990’s there was a real interest in getting such a
boat for Kingswear and when one came available in 2002 a meeting in the Ship Inn was quickly called where 30 people agreed to form a Rowing Club with the late Robin Leask as Chairman. The £2,000 or so needed to buy the boat, was collected through interest free loans from the new membership. Darthaven Marina were very helpful and
within a short time our first Seine Boat was moored at Darthaven and a flourishing membership of over 60 locals resulted. The membership came from all walks of life and across all age groups – from 11 years to 70+ years. Since then the Club has gone from strength to strength and now rents its boathouse and has pontoon on Waterhead creek, plus two four oared Seine Boats and two pair oared boats as well as a single scull, which are moored at Darthaven and on the Clubs pontoon in Waterhead Creek. Today KRC now has well over 120 members and have had numerous Dartmouth Regatta successes over the past 12 yearsThe success of the Club was recognised by Dartmouth Regatta Committee, when in 2003 the Club was awarded the prestigious “Harry Spencer Memorial Trophy” for the most significant contribution to Regatta overall. Despite this great honour, perhaps the most outstanding aspect of the Kingswear Rowing Club’s short history has been the success of its Junior Rowers. One of the members of a Kingswear RC Youth Whaler winning crew has been a certain Bill Lucas, who joined the Club as a 14 year old having enjoyed a few rows with Mark Peters in Dartmouth. KRC recognised his talent and took Bill to the GB Indoor Rowing Championships as a 15 year old and the Club were not at all surprised when Bill took an amazing third place from over 100 entries. This was good enough to get him into Dart Totnes RC under the watchful eye of coach Will Hawkyard and Bill was eventually selected for the GB squad and went on to become an under 23 world champion in the double scull and represent GB in the 2012 Olympics, winning through to the finals - again in the double scull. Many other juniors went on to row for their University including Adam Dyer who rowed for his College at Cambridge and brother Fraser who rowed for Southampton University and went on to become a key member of the Steam Packet Crew that won so many Open Whaler and LVA Whaler Races at Dartmouth Regatta. As well as the over 11’s, the Club is also proud to work with younger children at Kingswear Community Primary School and organises coaching and rowing sessions for children of 9 years upwards twice each month in summer in Waterhead Creek. But competitive rowing is not all this Club is about. Most of its members are ‘fun’ rowers and this has resulted in a thriving social side with dances, BBQ,s, sponsored rows, picnic rows etc. This led some members of the club to think about resurrecting Kingswear Regatta, not to compete with Dartmouth’s own wonderful Royal Regatta, but as a fun event for the Village, which would also raise some money for local charities. So it was, that in August 2006 Kingswear Regatta was reborn after a gap of 100 years! The event was a fabulous success with 10 hours of competitive rowing events on Waterhead Creek plus a village fete on Jubilee Park. Since its inception the Regatta has raised over £25,000 for local charities and organisations. This regatta is now a regular feature in Kingswear and Dartmouth calendars.”
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