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Old Combined Boathouse

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Cambridge boathouses Corpus, Girton, Sidney & Wolfson
Cambridge boathouses Corpus, Girton, Sidney & Wolfson

The Old Combined Boathouse is a Grade II listed historic building on the River Cam, Cambridge, England. Built in 1958, it serves as the boathouse for Girton, Sidney Sussex, Corpus Christi, and Wolfson college boat clubs. When built, Old Combined was the first combined college boathouse in Cambridge. The adjective 'old' being in reference to the New Combined Boathouse, further downstream, the current iteration of which was completed in 2016. Unlike some other college boathouses, Old Combined does not contain an ergometer room or a place to display or store trophies or blades, the Official List Entry instead describing the first floor changing rooms as 'spartan'. In the 1980s, two wings were added to the ground floor structure, in part to hold Wolfson's boats. As with many Cambridge boathouses, the arms of the colleges are displayed on the outside, between the concertina doors. Four flag-poles fly the respective college or boat club flags on the days of the Lent or May Bumps. Old Combined sits between the boathouses of Trinity Hall and Newnham, upstream and downstream respectively, near the similarly listed Goldie Boat House of the Cambridge University Boat Club.

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Old Combined Boathouse
Beaulands Close, Cambridge Petersfield

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Cambridge boathouses Corpus, Girton, Sidney & Wolfson
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Girton College Boat Club
Girton College Boat Club

Girton College Boat Club is the rowing club for members of Girton College, Cambridge. Girton was originally a college for women only; male undergraduates were first allowed in 1979. The women's 1st VIII quickly rose to take the headship of the Lent Bumps in 1979 and 1981, but since have hovered largely in the bottom half of the 1st division, with a brief period at the top of the second division in the early 2010s. In the May Bumps, Girton's 1st women rose as high as 3rd in 1979 and 1982, but dropped into the 2nd division by 1994, moving back into the 1st division by 2001. With male undergraduates first arriving in Michaelmas term 1979, a men's crew first appeared in 1980 in both the Lent and May Bumps, rising to the 1st division in the Lent Bumps by 1995. Since then, the men's 1st VIII has remained around the bottom of the 1st division or top of the 2nd division, although it currently stands at its highest ever position at 9th (Lent Bumps 2012). In the May Bumps, the 1st men's VIII took until 1991 to get firmly into the 2nd division. In the 2012 May Bumps, Girton moved into the first division for the first time. Girton are yet to take a men's headship. 2014 saw success for the club's women as the first boat returned to the first division of the Lent Bumps and then won blades to move up to 11th in the first division in the Mays. 2014 therefore saw both of Girton's first boats in both Lents and Mays first divisions for the first time.