On Wednesday Nancy Blackett was taken out of the shed at Robertsons in Woodbridge, and put in the mobile slings. Boat manager Neil Brooks captured the moment in the brilliant early April sunshine, and later, …
The good news is that, if the ‘Roadmap’ goes according to plan, Nancy Blackett will be able to provide her usual summer sailing… eventually. Meanwhile, though, pandemic-related restrictions on the winter work mean that Nancy’s …
Woodbridge – Nancy Blackett’s winter home – has been named as the best place to live in the East of England by The Sunday Times in its newly-published Best Places to Live Guide – and …
Stephen Sykes, owner of Hill Top, looks at the legacy of the charcoal burners who lived and worked in Arthur Ransome’s own back yard… There are two farmhouses in the Lake District both called Hill …
Sophie Neville, star of the original Swallows and Amazons film and author of The Making of Swallows and Amazons, reveals more memories and anecdotes that will appear in the 3rd edition of her e-book The Secrets of Filming Swallows …
Work on Nancy Blackett’s winter refurbishment continues with both varnish and an experimental coating having been applied to different parts of her. Neil Brooks, volunteer boat manager and a Trustee of the Nancy Blackett Trust, …
Swallow, the dinghy from the 1974 Swallows and Amazons film, was part of the last Sunday’s episode of the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow. Sail Ransome’s Rob Boden received a valuation for her from paintings expert Rupert …
Swallow from the original Swallows and Amazons film will be featured on the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow this Sunday (21st February). Fiona Bruce (pictured above) and the Antiques Roadshow team will present the episode from the Windermere …
Sophie Neville, star of the original Swallows and Amazons film and author of The Making of Swallows and Amazons, writes about the letters that she has received about how the film has changed people’s lives, …
In mid-January John Heath visited the Walton Backwaters, the location of “Secret Water” in Arthur Ransome’s book of the same name, and has shared the following photos that he took of the Wade, the Witches’ …
This week saw a number of online celebrations marking Swallows and Amazons author Arthur Ransome’s 137th birthday on Tuesday 18th… There were a number of birthday messages: Happy birthday to Arthur Ransome, author of the …
The audiobook of Swallows and Armenians is now available for free from Audible. Swallows and Armenians is Karen Babayan’s story of the Anglo-Armenian Altounyan family who inspired Arthur Ransome to write his first book of …
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