I bought this image on Ebay for a modest sum. The Black and White Budget was a general weekly in founded London 1899 and appears to have had only a short life. I don't know what other material it might have carried, except that the British Library included its issues for February 1901 in a collection of representative magazine coverage of the death of Queen Victoria in January of that year. Nor do I know why they chose to include this image and text. Possibly the initiative came from Winter himself, proud of his success in the Crystal Palace competition.

It is interesting that a fire officer should in 1901 have been a leading light in the Serpentine club, which twenty years before had been a distinctly upper class group, with Baronets and Guards Colonels among its officers and Patrons. Though an eminently respectable member of the lower middle classes, Winter would have been out of his league in such company. This suggests that the club had moved down the social scale by the end of the century. Possibly its upper class members had moved to the London Founded in 1884 on the Round Pond and a consciously superior group of model yachtsmen.

It is notable that the club seems to have sailed on a Sunday. This must have been unusual in the Sabbatarian atmosphere of late Victorian society. Disputes over the propriety of holding National championships on a Sunday arose in the 1930s and even as late as the 1940 clubs in Scotland were debating whether to move to Sunday sailing and risk losing the financial support of their patrons

Russell Potts