The photo on the left titled "The Boat Race (1895) from Barnes Bridge" was published in the book "The Queen's London", Casell & Co., London 1896.

The race took place on March 30th. Oxford won by 2 and a quarter lengths

            PU 1905 March 25th Putney

       (seven days before the Boat Race)

Text on back: "This is the crew that lost

yesterday but they were my favourites"

Cambridge won by 4,5 lengths

The 40-year-old Blackstaffe was twice

the age of his opponent in the final

Alexander McCulloch (GBR) who had

won the Diamond Sculls at Henley Royal

Regatta several weeks before the Olympic

regatta.

The inscription "Henley Regatta" is not

correct - The Olympic Regatta was not

a part of Henley Regatta.

Gold medal: GBR (Leander Club)

A. Gladstone, F. Kelly, B. Johnstone, G. Nickalls,

C. Burnell, R. Sanderson, R. Etherington-Smith,

H. Bucknall, cox G. Maclagan                   7:52,0

Silver medal: BEL (Royal Club Nautique de Gand)

O. Taelman, M. Morimont, R. Orban,

G. M. F. Vergucht, P. Veirman, O. de Somville,

R. Poma, cox A. Vanlandeghem

Only the times of winning crews were recorded.

Oxford won the 1909 Boat Race by 3 1/2 lengths

A. C. Gladstone, H. R. Barker, C. R. Cudmore, A. S. Garton, D. Mackinnon, J. A. Gillan,

A. G. Kirby, R. C. Bourne (stroke), A. W. F. Donkin (cox),