Talkin Tarn Amateur Rowing Club

Rowing races were first held on Talkin Tarn in the 1850s and the rowing club was formed in 1859 by local townspeople, several descendants of whom still live in the area. It is the oldest rowing club in the area apart from Tyne Rowing Club and is the 14th oldest non-university club in the country. Talkin Tarn is a lake just outside of Brampton in Cumbria.

28th June 1930
The Yorkshire Post reported:
REGATTA MISHAP ON THE TEES - Two Brampton Rowers Drowned. The annual Tees Regatta at Middlesbrough, which dates back for 50 years was marred on Saturday by the death two competitors through the capsizing their craft. The victims of the accident which caused the abandonment of the regatta were two young men from Brampton, Cumberland, members of the Talkin Tarn Rowing Club. Their names are:— Ernest Black (23), bricklayer, Mark Terrace; and George Stanley Robinson (19), painter, of Main Street. Black's body was recovered late yesterday afternoon. The three survivors of the crew are J Mounsey (bow), J. Pearson (No. 3), H. Ritson (cox), who clung to the upturned boat. Black was the only son of Mr. T. Black an ex-member of the Leeds City Police Force, who retired on pension five years ago, and is now landlord of the String of Horses Hotel, Brampton. Robinson's mother is a widow, and is now left with one son, Harold, aged 15, and one daughter, Marjorie, aged 9. Robinson was the principal support to the home; his father, who was also a police constable having died at Brampton, when only 38 a few years ago.