Maidenhead Heritage Centre

f847f5af-72e9-4f3f-925e-e9cd870a0f0f
  • News
  • Donating
  • Jobs & Volunteers
  • Membership
  • Mailing list
  • Contact the centre
  • Home
  • Overview
  • What’s On
    • Events, Exhibitions & Talks
    • Permanent Exhibitions
      • Story of Maidenhead
      • “Grandma Flew Spitfires”
      • Spitfire Simulator Experience
    • Family Activities
    • Hire a Speaker
    • Previous exhibitions
  • Online Exhibitions
    • Littlewick Green
    • Let’s celebrate!
    • Jewel of the Thames
    • Women in Green
    • WW2 Posters
    • Town Centre 1964
    • All the World’s a Stage
    • Memories of D-Day
    • Skindles
  • Schools
    • Homework Help!
    • KS1 & KS2
    • Secondary Schools
    • Group Visits
  • Research
    • Browse and Search
    • Local History
      • Chronology
      • A-Z Hall of Fame
    • Maps
    • Copyright
    • Panoramic Photographs
  • Getting Here
    • Find Us & Parking
    • Opening Times
    • Accessibility
    • Admission Charges
    • Families
    • School & Group Visits
  • Online Shop
  • Air Transport Auxiliary
    • About the ATA [atamuseum.org]
    • “Grandma Flew Spitfires”
    • ATA News [atamuseum.org]
    • Gallery
    • Stories & Diaries [atamuseum.org]
    • Research Services

Edward Andrews

1846 – 1937

A fine boatman, and the founder of one of the most significant boathouses on the Thames.

Edward’s father and grandfather had both been boatmen on the Thames, as was Edward himself, and in 1870 he and his brother Charles established the company E Andrews and Son. This was one of the first boathouses in Maidenhead, a growing industry at the time as the Thames was becoming popular for recreation, and Maidenhead was becoming a fashionable resort.

There was a rich harvest of fish – salmon, trout and eels – in the river at this time, and Edward hired out boats complete with professional fishermen. The Fishing Gazette of 1900 described Edward as “one of the cleverest freshwater fishermen of his day who came from four generations of fishermen”. His father was described as “the finest rod and line fisherman ever known”.

Andrews boathouse is famous for building the first Greyhound Slipper Launch in 1912 – it was designed by John Andrews, Edward’s son They were famous for their long sloping stern, and were most popular on the river in the 1920s and 1930s.

The boathouse also enjoyed Royal patronage. In 1908, Edward received a telegraph from an equerry to King Edward VII, requiring him to “deliver his best electronic launch, Angler, to the King’s boathouse opposite Datchet, with his best boatman”. A boat was provided, manned by Joseph Tindall, Edward’s best boatman, and H Matthews, his best steersman. King Edward and Queen Alexandra cruised along the Thames and took tea on the lawn at Monkey Island.

Donate

Recent Posts

  • Open for fun this week
  • Spitfire Simulator flights available this week
  • Christmas and New Year opening times
  • Middle-earth comes to Bray
  • Boundary Walk 2020

Archives

  • January 2022
  • December 2021
  • November 2021
  • October 2020
  • May 2020
  • April 2020
  • October 2019
  • October 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • April 2017
  • February 2017
  • October 2016
  • September 2016
  • August 2016
  • July 2016
  • June 2016
  • May 2016
  • April 2016
  • March 2016
  • February 2016
  • November 2015
  • October 2015
  • September 2015
  • July 2015
  • May 2015
  • April 2015
  • March 2014
  • February 2014

Supported by

RBWM logo Adverstiser Charitable Trust logo Heritage Lottery Fund logo Accredited Museum logo


Colemans logo


Tsohost.CharityHosting.MPU

TSE 2018 logo 

Facebook icon Twitter icon TripAdvisor logo Great West Way logo
Site map | Contact us | Privacy Policy | Tel: 01628 780555 Email:info@maidenheadheritage.org.uk
Copyright © 2022 Maidenhead Heritage Centre, 18 Park Street, Maidenhead, SL6 1SL
Charity number: 1045746