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Description: | Rowing colours handkerchieves were designed and offered for sale whenever there was a major race. The usual charge for the handkerchief was a guinea, ��1 1s. Their sale provided a useful secondary income for professional oarsmen. William Elliott of Blyth won the Championship of England on the Tyne, September 17th 1878, beating R.W. Boyd. He lost the Championship to Ned Hanlan on the Tyne, June 15th 1879. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | living in the North East craft clothes made in the North East sport leisure men | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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