Performing a ‘lap of honour’ at Bideford Regatta on Wednesday will be Bideford Reds A crew (top) who have already made sure of the junior championship of the West of England.
This is the same crew that won the novice championship last year.Left to right: John Lott, David Hutchings, David Elliott, George Tithecott and Albert Blackmore.
The Bideford Blues senior crew (below) are runners-up in this year’s senior champtionship, and as such have been invited to row at Deal in the Coast Championship Regatta. They are (left to right): Clifford Davis, Leslie Slade, John Evans, George Evans. Cox is John Barter.
Gazette article dated 1 September 1961