The Nancy Blackett Trust has recently hosted a flurry of Activity Days, giving more local children a wonderful chance to explore Nancy Blackett, be introduced to Arthur Ransome’s classic stories and learn about the East Coast, writes Sue Coales… The Activity Days kicked off with two visits from Chelmondiston School on April 24th and 26th. […]
Members of the Nancy Blackett Trust can now book for this year’s Annual General Meeting and Summer Social in June at the Royal Harwich Yacht Club. The AGM starts at 11am on Saturday 17th June, while the Summer Social commences at 2pm and features talks from Sarah Curtis of Harry King’s Boatyard about Pin Mill […]
A marathon reading of Arthur Ransome’s classic story Swallowdale is happening at Windermere Jetty Museum on June 24th & 25th, and you can now sign up to participate in it. Swallowdale follows on from the great adventure of Swallows and Amazons and finds the brave crew of the Swallow, plus one parrot, beginning another summer […]
The University of Cumbria is hosting a free public talk about Arthur Ransome in Ambleside on Tuesday 4th April. Presented by Professor Sally Bushell of Lancaster University, this talk considers a spatial approach to children’s literature through the example of Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons series, defining the concept of “PlaySpace” as a shared space […]
A brand new theatre production of Arthur Ransome’s novel Winter Holiday will take to the stage this month, before appearing in the Lake District in March. The play will be on stage for three days at the Theatre Severn in Shrewsbury from 16th to 18th February, before appearing for two days at the Old Laundry […]
Nancy Blackett is now ashore for the winter, following a long and busy autumn afloat, making the most of the unseasonably mild weather. She was collected last week from her berth at Woolverstone Marina on the spring tide and brought just a mile downriver to Pin Mill by Gus Curtis – to be lifted out […]
Swallow, the iconic dinghy that starred in the original film of Swallows and Amazons is currently on display at the Southampton International Boat Show, greeting families as they arrive, while Sophie Neville, who played Titty Walker in the film, has been giving talks on filming afloat and how it was made on location in the […]
Yesterday was a good day for Nancy Blackett at the St Katharine Dock Classic Boat Show in London, writes Bob Hull. It got off to a slow start after the Nancy Blackett crew went around to some other boats informing them they were incorrectly dressed in light of the guidance on Accession Day that flags […]
Nancy Blackett has made it to London in plenty of time for this weekend’s Classic Boat Festival at St Katharine Dock. She can be visited on Saturday and Sunday during festival hours. Further details of the festival are here. Nancy Blackett and crew by Tower Bridge earlier this morning. Photo: Bob Hull.
The Nancy Blackett Trust’s contribution to the Felixstowe Book Festival on Saturday June 25th was part of a highly entertaining and successful day-long series of events under the title of Suffolk and the Sea. The day included items from Trust members Claudia Myatt, Jane Russell from chart publishers Imray and Julia Jones, who also curated […]
Suffolk author and sailor Julia Jones looks forward to the upcoming You Too Can Go To Sea event on 25th June at the Two Sisters Arts Centre in Trimley St. Mary, Suffolk – led by the Nancy Blackett Trust as part of the 2022 Felixstowe Book Festival’s Suffolk and the Sea Day… I was sitting […]
It was exactly 25 years ago today – June 9th 1997 – that the newly-formed Nancy Blackett Trust took over ownership of the Nancy Blackett, the yacht that inspired Arthur Ransome’s classic children’s novel We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea. She appears in the book as the Goblin, and was described by Ransome as […]
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