2013

TL4559 : Peterhouse Boathouse

taken 13 years ago, near to Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England

This is 1 of 13 images, with title Peterhouse Boathouse in this square
Peterhouse Boathouse
Peterhouse Boathouse
The present boathouse is a Building of Local Interest, and was built in 1928 to replace the previous Victorian structure. The building is angled to make full use of the river frontage. The brick ground floor leads to a rendered first floor and a tiled roof. There is one short chimneystack in the half-hipped roof. The gable end of the building has College symbols on the render, including the crest and crossed keys. Beneath this section is a large small-paned casement window and under this are the dates 1828 and 1928. On the small side extension there is the date 1992.
Cambridge Boathouses

The college boathouses are along the River Cam, downstream of Victoria Bridge.

Rowing first started at Cambridge in 1825, before it was introduced at Oxford. The first college boat club established was St John's, closely followed by Trinity. By 1830 Jesus, Magdalene, Emmanuel, Christ’s, Corpus Christi and Peterhouse had also founded boat clubs, and by 1835 a total of fifteen colleges had them. Newnham ladies founded the first women’s boat club in 1896.

The first college boathouse was built for Trinity in 1872, and by the end of the nineteenth century most of the colleges had built, or started to build, boathouses of their own.

Peterhouse :: TL4457

Peterhouse is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It is the oldest college of the University, having been founded in 1284 by Hugo de Balsham, Bishop of Ely. The modern name of Peterhouse does not include the word "college".
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TL4559, 1380 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
N Chadwick   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Sunday, 27 October, 2013   (more nearby)
Submitted
Thursday, 13 February, 2014
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TL 4550 5930 [10m precision]
WGS84: 52:12.7627N 0:7.6907E
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TL 4549 5926
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North-northeast (about 22 degrees)
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