NZ1665 : New rowing club boathouse from the Boathouse pub
taken 8 years ago, near to Newburn, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
New rowing club boathouse from the Boathouse pub
Tyne Amateur Rowing Club, based at Water Row, Newburn was founded in 1852 and is amongst the oldest sporting clubs in England and said to have the longest and best stretch of river for rowing in the north of England.
George Stephenson ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Stephenson ) married his first wife here on 28 Nov 1802. "George's signature as it stands in the books, is that of a person who seems to have just learned to write" [Murray's Handbook:1890].