Two women who helped build their own skiff style rowing boat are hoping the project will inspire older women. Sian Davis, 65, ...

Lucy was just four years old at that terrible time ... five children all over six feet tall and not a one of them rowing a boat! Lucy (far right) in the 1906 Mixed Doubles, Newman Challenge ...

A great number of people had collected to see the races, - including many graduates, of whom a large number were old rowing men. The boat-house platform and the floats were covered with spectators ...