Teignmouth: Aquatics on the Teign: Who’ that has ever traversed the gentle Teign has not made the acquaintance of Coombe Cellars? Famous in the recollection of the longest memory for its cockles, eider, and cosy hostelry, it was on Tuesday the centre of a grand game at aquatics. The chief navigable portion of the lovely river is, what may be regarded as its estuary, lying between Newton and Teignmouth Bar. At Newton boating has recently become a fashionable pastime, and wherever that passion takes, nothing will do after a bit but a race to let off the exuberant spirits and show how well we can feather our oars. A regatta was therefore resolved upon, and a committee was formed to carry the same into effect, and on Tuesday the event came off. We all know very well that Newton town was all out of sight for anything the river, and Teignmouth or Shaldon all out of town, nothing was more natural than to drop down to Coombe Cellars, although for those who had neither sea rig nor land gig to take them there the distance was nothing considerable. The day, however, was fine, and the very fact that it gave a run for the land lubbers well as a pull for the rowers, was itself an attractive excitement, so that the numbers that found their way there was large beyond all expectation: Things being so encouraging, it not likely to be the last holiday of the kind at the celebrated Cellars. The stewards were — W. J. Watts, Esq., J. Whidborne, Esq., W. Crawskay, Esq., Major Yates, and J. B. Pinsent, Esq. Mr. H. Stooke, hon. sec, Mr. Drake treasurer and starter. The following are the events: …
[see also Western times: Friday 4th August 1871]
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GRO0517 Devonport: John Ball Pinsent: 1844 – 1890