Arthur Ransome’s favourite yacht Nancy Blackett will be open to visitors again this weekend (12th & 13th September) at the Classic Boat Festival in St Katherine Docks, London. The annual boating extravaganza will also see …
Nancy Blackett has, after all, made it to Queenborough, Isle of Sheppey, for the Classic Boat Festival. She was sailed directly from Woolverstone, setting off at 10:38am yesterday morning and arriving at 9:02pm, and should …
The planned attendance by Nancy Blackett at this weekend’s Classic Boat Festival (September 5th & 6th) at Queenborough, Isle of Sheppey, has unfortunately been cancelled as the delivery passage from Woolverstone had to be aborted …
The Nancy Blackett Trust was busy meeting sailors at the RYA East’s Cruising Conference last Sunday. Shown below are Phil Durnford, chair of the Trust’s Sailing Committee, far left, and Robin Sadler, newly-elected Trust Chairman, …
We all know that Arthur Ransome was complaining of ‘having run out of ideas’ and ‘not knowing where the next book was coming from’ when he was in the process of moving from Low Ludderburn …
Nancy Blackett will be returning to the annual St Katherine Docks Classic Boat Festival in London this coming weekend – 7-8th September. This annual event has become a favourite date in her calendar, and once …
Nancy Blackett set out from Scarborough on Sunday afternoon and was in Wells-next-the-Sea, North Norfolk, by Monday morning. During her stay in Scarborough she was visited by members of the Bentley family, which had owned …
[Update: Nancy Blackett arrived in Scarborough at 8am today (19th July) Nancy Blackett, Arthur Ransome’s favourite yacht, is returning to Scarborough this week for the first time in over 25 years, and will be open …
Amazon, the traditional sailing dinghy that features alongside Swallow in the classic film Swallows and Amazons, will be on display outside the Riverside Cinema, Woodbridge, Suffolk, this Saturday, 13th July, when the film, celebrating its …
Next weekend (29th and 30th June) sees the 50th Anniversary celebration of the original Swallows and Amazons film in the Lake District at the Windermere Jetty Museum. Hosted by the Arthur Ransome Society, the weekend …
A memorial tribute to the life and work of the late Richard Pilbrow, producer of the original Swallows and Amazons film, was held last month (May 2024) at National Theatre in London. The presentation was …
Keen fans of Claude Whatham’s original film ‘Swallows and Amazons’ gathered at the Cinema Museum in London last Saturday for the 50th Anniversary celebrations hosted by the writer and broadcaster Brian Sibley, writes Sophie Neville. …
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