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Interior of The Coat & Badge, with rowing artwork. The pub dates from the Edwardian era, [3] it was recorded at Coopers Lane [4] which is now Lacy Road. [5] The name is after Doggett's Coat and Badge, the oldest rowing race in the world, [6] started by Irish comedian Thomas Doggett [7] and now run by the Watermen's Company.
The race has also given its name to two pubs: "Doggetts Coat & Badge" on the southern end of Blackfriars Bridge and "The Coat and Badge", Lacy Road, Putney. There was a pub in Margate named "The Doggett Coat and Badge"; it closed permanently in 2013 and the building now houses an ice cream shop.
In 1715 Doggett founded the prize of Doggett's Coat and Badge in honour of the House of Hanover, in commemoration of King George I of Great Britain's accession to the Throne on 1 August 1714. The winner's prize is a traditional watermen's orange coat with a silver badge added to the sleeve, displaying the white horse of the House of Hanover and ...
There are also mentions of a society called Sons of the Thames Society formed before 1790 to celebrate the annual Doggett's Coat and Badge sculling race. [7]
1716 — the first race for the right to wear Doggett's Coat and Badge held among the professional watermen in London. The course runs four miles and five furlongs (7443 m) from London Bridge to Chelsea. It became established as an annual event continuing into the 21st century. [citation needed]
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The Doggett's Coat and Badge, the oldest rowing race in the world, sees apprentice watermen competing on the River Thames. Above painting by Thomas Rowlandson (1756–1827). A waterman is a river worker who transfers passengers across and along city centre rivers and estuaries in the United Kingdom and its colonies.
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