in the former Reading Rowing Club building built in 1893. The adjacent boatyard of Bridge Boats was established in 1958 as a builder of wooden boats, becoming a boat hire business in the 1980s. The business was taken over and merged with Caversham Boat Services in 2009. See also Islands in the River Thames References Geography of Reading, Berkshire History of Reading, Berkshire Islands of the River Thames Trials by combat