THE annual regatta of the Glasgow Schools Rowing Club held on the Clyde at Glasgow Green in 1958. Nearly 70 crews took part, competing for four trophies. It was not, we must point out, simply for boys from posh schools. One of the trophies was won by a team from Possil, and nearby Adelphi Terrace School in Gorbals also sent a crew.
The schools rowing club was set up during the war, and with the help of Glasgow Corporation, had their own boathouse at Glasgow Green in the fifties with eighteen schools and over 500 rowers regularly taking to the water. Like many sports though, it was hit by the teachers' industrial action in the seventies when teachers withdrew from such activities. Pigeons took over the boathouse.
But it is not all bad news thankfully. Indoor rowing established at many schools has rekindled interest on going out on the water and there are now seven schools regularly rowing on the Clyde.
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