A new play about Arthur Ransome and George Orwell goes on tour across East Anglia this spring and tickets are now on sale. Produced by Eastern Angles, Red Skies is based on the coincidence that Orwell and the Ransomes were both in Southwold at the same time in 1939. Written by Ivan Cutting, the play […]
Watch a behind-the-scenes video below, shot in 1973 during the filming of Swallows and Amazons (1974). Dennis Lewiston, the Director of Photography, is with Claude Whatham and the film crew of Swallows and Amazons on the camera pontoon, reversing on Coniston Water. Swallow is wired to it. Suzanna Hamilton, Simon West, and Stephen Grendon are in the […]
An exhibition celebrating the Armenian connections of Swallows and Amazons opens in Carlisle, Cumbria, next week. Swallows and Armenians is a passionate and personal project by Appleby artist Karen Babayan which celebrates the inspirational Anglo-Armenian family, the Altounyans, models for the Walker family in the classic Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome. The first […]
Julia Jones, author and owner of Arthur Ransome’s Peter Duck, will be giving an illustrated talk about her father’s Cruise of Naromis: August in the Baltic 1939. this evening in Bawdsey, Suffolk. The venue is Bawdsey Village Hall the doors open at 7pm and the talk starts at 7:30pm. Tickets are £2 on the door […]
Watch a behind-the-scenes video below, shot in 1973 during the filming of Swallows and Amazons (1974) at Bowness-on-Windermere, the location for ‘Rio’ in Arthur Ransome’s story. Shot on 16mm film (Bolex)… You can read the whole story by Sophie Neville, who starred as Titty Walker in the film, in her book The Making of Swallows […]
Congratulations to Clare Buckingham, the Nancy Blackett Trust’s Young Sailor of the Year in 2018, who has just been awarded the prestigious title of Best Potential Sail Training Skipper by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency and ASTO (the Association of Sail Training Organisations). This title follows on from Clare’s success in ASTO’s Small Ships Race […]
Stephen Sykes, owner of Arthur Ransome’s last home, Hill Top in Haverthwaite, will be giving a talk about “The Ransomes at Hill Top” next Friday at the Carthouse Cinema in nearby Oxen Park, Cumbria. Hill Top, a former farmhouse dating from 1860, was first rented by the Ransomes in 1956, before they bought it in […]
Watch a behind-the-scenes video below of the Amazon boathouse, shot in 1973 during the filming of Swallows and Amazons (1974) at ‘Beckfoot’ on 16mm Bolex film… You can read the whole story by Sophie Neville, who starred as Titty Walker in the film, in her book The Making of Swallows and Amazons (1974), which you can buy […]
A new play about Arthur and Evgenia Ransome and George Orwell comes to the stage in Ipswich this April, and tickets are now on pre-sale. Produced by Eastern Angles, Red Skies is based on the coincidence that Orwell and the Ransomes were both in Southwold at the same time in 1939. Written by Ivan Cutting, […]
Classic films Riddle of the Sands (1979) and Swallows and Amazons (1974) are both showing at this weekend’s Maritime Film Festival in Woodbridge, with introductory talks by the former’s producer Drummond Challis and the Nancy Blackett Blackett Trust’s President Peter Willis. Nine unmissable boat-related films are being shown over the Festival’s three days, which is […]
We’re delighted to announce that the speaker for the first Brian Hammett Memorial Talk is to be Julia Jones, and bookings are now open. Julia is a well-known local author and sailor – she is the present owner of Ransome’s Peter Duck. Her talk is entitled “Racundra, Peter Duck, Avola: unwilling to accept a final […]
The Nancy Blackett Trust’s Chairman Peter Willis was interviewed by afternoon presenter Lesley Dolphin on BBC Radio Suffolk on January 10th. Topics covered included Peter’s recent receipt of the RYA Lifetime Commitment Award, how Arthur Ransome acquired Nancy Blackett, the origins of the Nancy Blackett Trust, the upcoming Woodbridge Maritime Film Festival and Brian Hammett Memorial […]
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