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Henley-on-Thames, an Eights race approaches the finish at the Royal Regatta, 1923. Two crews of eights race between the riverbank and a chaotic jumble of spectator boats to approach the finish line of the Royal Regatta at Henley-on-Thames. First held in 1839, the Regatta has been staged annually ever since apart from during the two World Wars. This spectacular image from 7 July 1923 the last day of the Regatta captures the massed crowds of one of the largest attendances that the event had ever seen. A report in The Times two days later remarked that in the afternoon it was not possible to hire a boat of any description. Trains from Paddington had to be run in duplicate, and the motor traffic was much heavier than ever before. 1923. (Photo by US National Archives via “A History of Britain From Above”)
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