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A black-and-white postcard showing a large, two-story brick boat house with a wooden balcony and a crew rowing on the river.

Trinity boat house

Trinity College boat house (First & Third Trinity boat house)

History of the First and Third Trinity boat house

The history of the Trinity boat clubs can be found here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_and_Third_Trinity_Boat_Club

The site of the original Third Trinity boat house is now that of St Catherine’s College boat house.

A crew of nine men rows a long boat on the river in front of timber boathouses, with a man on horseback standing on the bank.

Trinity College Head of the River crew, 1870.

A brick boathouse surrounded by floodwater with many people sitting and standing on its raised terrace and upper floor windows.

Trinity boathouse in 1918 floods.

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