With smoking widespread and lighters a rarity, books of matches were everywhere in the 1960s. These, titled “Berlin: Capital of the DDR” chronicle that the Grunau International Regatta Course was built in 1882, was used in 1936 for the Olympic Games, that there was removal of war damage from 1950-1952 and that in 1962 the Women’s European Rowing Championships took place there. (Source: Frances Bigg’s personal collection.)
Rowing Story 
