The Boat Race public tests are in November at the British Indoor Rowing Championships, where each university sends around 20 rowers to compete. Everyone races 2 km on an indoor rower with the club presidents using adjacent machines. Both universities also send crews to the Head of the River Fours race in London, which is raced over the reverse Boat Race course, that is to say the Championship course from Mortlake to Putney. In December, the coaches put out "Trial Eights" where two crews from the same university race each other over the full Boat Race course. These crews are given names such
Mortlake Tapestry Works for the rest of the century though its fortunes fluctuated. In 1629, Charles I granted Crane "ca."400 acres of Stoke Park at Stoke Bruerne in Northamptonshire, England, together with a manor house. Accounts of the cost of materials, wages and details of the way in which the work was apportioned between named weavers survive for a few tapestries. The Mortlake weavers were highly skilled in depicting natural textures and effects such as flesh and water. Their products can be seen in many museums and English country houses. Lord Leverhulme acquired the Mortlake tapestry series in 1918. It was sold from