Nancy Blackett was featured in a television preview of the Arthur Ransome Pin Mill Jamboree last Friday (12th May) on BBC Look East. The preview also featured short interviews with Peter Willis, President of the Nancy Blackett Trust, the children of Holbrook Academy, Suffolk rehearsing part of their play of “We Didn’t Mean to go to […]
Nancy Blackett Trust’s exhibition project wins National Lottery support The Nancy Blackett Trust has received £8,300-plus from the Heritage Lottery Fund for its project to present Arthur Ransome’s own photos of the building of his yacht Selina King at Pin Mill, Suffolk, in 1938. Made possible by money raised by National Lottery players, the photographs will […]
If you plan to come to the Jamboree please read this! The event starts at 12 noon and the common will be closed for organisers only until then. We will be bringing equipment such as the swingboats and Vintage Cinema and moving boats so please wait until the start to arrive. We have organised a […]
Nancy Blackett finally started her new sailing season last Saturday (April 29th) when she left the Tidemill Marina in Woodbridge at about 1.00pm, as soon as there was sufficient depth of water over its sill. Her new mast looked splendid, and performed excellently during the short cruise round to Shotley Marina on the Stour/Orwell junction. […]
To celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Nancy Blackett Trust and Visit England’s Year of Literary Heroes, Pin Mill is hosting an Arthur Ransome Jamboree on Saturday 13th May. It’s part of a year-long celebration of Arthur Ransome’s links with the area, which will include a Parade of Sail headed by Nancy Blackett on 4th […]
The Arthur Ransome’s East Coast Celebration was launched earlier this week on Thursday (27th April) at the Royal Harwich Yacht Club, with help from the Nancy Blackett Trust’s President Peter Willis. He opened the proceedings by reminding guests of Arthur Ransome’s close associations with the area – moving to the River Orwell to enjoy some offshore […]
It might be hard to be believe, but Arthur Ransome’s Nancy Blackett celebrated her 86th anniversary yesterday (30th March), receiving lots of birthday wishes on social media. Born in 1931 at Hillyards boatyard in Littlehampton, Sussex, she was first registered as a British Ship, under her original name Spindrift, on 30th March. Her actual launch date […]
Peter Willis, founder and president of the Nancy Blackett Trust, reflects on its 20th anniversary and the year in prospect… This new year, 2017, will not only see the 20th anniversary of the Nancy Blackett Trust, but it will also be 80 years since the publication of “We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea“, and […]
Visit England has declared 2017 the ‘Year of Literary Heroes’, highlighting anniversaries of great writers, including Arthur Ransome, who died 50 years ago in 1967 – and Suffolk’s Shotley Peninsula, which features in two of his books, and where his famous yacht Nancy Blackett is based, is joining in with gusto. Pin Mill, the peninsula’s […]
To help you get ready for Christmas, we’re giving you the chance to win one pack of each of these three exclusive Nancy Blackett Trust Charity Christmas Cards (pictured). To enter, you need to have either a Facebook account or a Twitter account and: Retweet this Tweet and Follow the “Nancy Blackett” Twitter account or Share this […]
It is autumn 1919. Moscow is surrounded by counter-revolutionaries. Arthur Ransome is known to be a Bolshevik sympathiser. He’s fallen in love with Trotsky’s secretary. They both know they’ll be lynched or shot if Moscow falls. Somehow they must escape. On Ransome’s desk is a stone from Peel Island on Coniston Water. Is it a […]
Following a successful book launch last week, the highly anticipated “Swallows, Amazons and Coots: A Reading of Arthur Ransome” is published today, and available from the Nancy Blackett Shop at the special introductory price of £17.00 (saving 15%). In the first critical book devoted wholly to the Swallows and Amazons series, author Julian Lovelock takes a fresh […]
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