History
“Vesta Rowing Club, Headquarters, the “Horn” Tavern, Knightrider-street. Established in 1871. Election by ballot of members, one black ball in three to exclude. Entrance fee, 5s.; Subscription, £1 10s.; honorary members, 10s. 6d. Colours, crimson and black stripes oblique. Boat-house, Unity Boat-house , Putney”.
—Charles Dickens (Jr.), Dickens’s Dictionary of the Thames, 1881
