Alden's Oxford guide : with an appendix entitled "Old Oxford", and a new map . alk a promenade is held annually on the Sunday inCommemoration week, hence popularly called Show the W. end of the Broad Walk, an avenue planted a fewyears since (marked New Walk; in Plan) leads directly to the. ?W5 CLUB BARGES ON THE ISIS. River Isis, a classic name applied to that part of the Thameswhich flows by the classic University. The Oxfordshire shore islined with barges, some of which are occupied by the proprietorsof rowing boats, but the more handsome ones by the RowingClubs of the various co
Alden's Oxford guide : with an appendix entitled "Old Oxford", and a new map . alk a promenade is held annually on the Sunday inCommemoration week, hence popularly called Show the W. end of the Broad Walk, an avenue planted a fewyears since (marked New Walk; in Plan) leads directly to the. ?W5 CLUB BARGES ON THE ISIS. River Isis, a classic name applied to that part of the Thameswhich flows by the classic University. The Oxfordshire shore islined with barges, some of which are occupied by the proprietorsof rowing boats, but the more handsome ones by the RowingClubs of the various colleges. These are in fact floatingclub-houses, well supplied with newspapers, periodicals, writing This meadow was the j;ift of Lady Elizabeth Montacute (see page 63). 66 Aldens Oxford Guide. materials, and every accommodation for members who indulge in aquatic exercise. The University Boat Club barge, represented to the right of our engraving, was designed by Mr. Bruton, and is in plan and decoration appropriate for the purpose. The other barge seen in the illustration (but not now in the position there shown) was formerly the state baige of the Stationers Company of London. On the river in summer-time a most animated sight is presented by the numberless craft, from canoes to eight-oars, whic
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