OARSMAN: Harry Clasper who, in 1842, won the single-sculls race at Durham Regatta
REGARDING Harry Clasper the 19th Century boat builder and rower. As a miner in the 1840s, probably working a 48 hour week, it seems to me unimaginable where he found the time to get out and train not to mention build world class rowing boats.
Let us have a statue of Harry on the Tyne riverside.
David Johnson, Bishop Auckland
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