Today is the last day that you can enter our Vintage Children’s Classics Competition. To celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the publication of “Secret Water” earlier this month the Nancy Blackett Trust teamed up with …
Our best-seller this Christmas in the Nancy Blackett Shop has undoubtedly been Sophie Neville’s book “The Making of Swallows and Amazons” – based on her journal written when she played Titty in the 1974 film …
There is still time to order your Christmas gifts from the Nancy Blackett Shop! Highlights this year include new books from Sophie Neville (“The Making of Swallows and Amazons”) and Julia Jones (“The Lion of …
To celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the publication of “Secret Water” last Friday the Nancy Blackett Trust has once again teamed up with Vintage Books to give you another chance to win a bumper prize. …
Today is the 75th anniversary of the publication of “Secret Water”, the eighth book in Arthur Ransome’s “Swallows and Amazons” series of children’s books. The story is set in the Walton Backwaters and is the second …
Last Saturday saw Nancy Blackett being laid-up at the Tide Mill in Woodbridge, Suffolk, in preparation for her end-of-season lift-out yesterday. On a day that saw a mixture of heavy showers and clear skies, volunteer …
Last Thursday saw two new members come along to Woolverstone Marina to visit Nancy Blackett and have a taster sail for a couple of hours on the River Orwell. After a brief introduction to Nancy’s …
Nancy Blackett had a successful weekend at this year’s Maritime Woodbridge, with plenty of visitors and a busy stall. Two other boats that were once owned by Arthur Ransome – Peter Duck and Ragged Robin …
Come and see Nancy Blackett at Maritime Woodbridge this weekend, once again in the company of Peter Duck and Ragged Robin III. All three yachts, once owned by Arthur Ransome, will be on show and …
We’d like to remind you the deadline for the Vintage Books competition is this week – on Friday 5th September. To celebrate the fortieth anniversary and release of the restored 1974 “Swallows and Amazons” film, …
Skipper Phil Durnford has just returned from a “furthest north” cruise at the helm of Nancy Blackett. He writes: I joined Nancy Blackett on Monday 18th August in Ipswich Dock, where she had spent the weekend …
Nancy Blackett had a generally successful weekend at this year’s Maritime Ipswich festival, making a number of new friends and gaining some new members for the Trust along the way. See our photo album from …
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