Arthur Ransome’s Nancy Blackett was at the Royal Harwich Yacht Club on 30th June for the 21st Annual General Meeting of the Nancy Blackett Trust. View our Flickr photo album here of the day.
Last weekend Nancy Blackett and crew embarked on an expedition to ‘Secret Water’ to coincide with the Old Gaffers Association’s Swallows and Amazons Weekend in the Walton Backwaters. Following an initial leg down the Orwell to Shotley Marina on Friday, Saturday morning saw a lengthy sail against the wind to Titchmarsh Marina near Walton-on-the-Naze, where […]
Last weekend the Walton and Frinton Yacht Club hosted the Old Gaffers Association’s Swallows and Amazons weekend in the Walton Backwaters – Arthur Ransome’s ‘Secret Water’, writes Matt Plummer. It was the association’s nineteenth consecutive visit and twenty-four boats signed on for the main race on Saturday, which involved circumnavigating both Horsey Island and Honeypot Island. The […]
Pin Mill is featured in a limited print which is to be auctioned at the AGM of the Nancy Blackett Trust at the end of this month – as a special fundraising event for the charity. As part of the late Peter Aitchison’s bequest to the Nancy Blackett Trust, this limited edition print of aviation […]
Sophie Neville. President of the Arthur Ransome Society, was invited to talk about making the BBC TV classic serial ‘Coot Club’ and ‘The Big Six’ at the Norfolk Broads Yacht Club to help celebrate their 80th Anniversary over the May Day Bank Holiday weekend, and continues her account below… Titmouse, the 1930’s dinghy owned by Hunter’s Yard, […]
The new production of “Swallows and Amazons” at the Storyhouse theatre in Chester has been receiving positive reviews by the critics. Writing in the Reviews Hub, Jo Beggs says that the new adapation by Bryony Lavery “retains all of the charm of the Ransome’s original story” with no great attempt to update it, and so “perfectly reflects […]
If you are a Swallows and Amazons fan then there are a number of events and activities across the UK this month to go to or participate in. This Saturday (9th June) you can visit Arthur Ransome’s favourite yacht Nancy Blackett at Woolverstone Marina, near Ipswich in Suffolk, as part of their Marina Day – […]
Arthur Ransome’s Nancy Blackett will be having an open day on Saturday 9th June as part of Woolverstone Marina Day. Visitors will be able to explore the “Swallows and Amazons” author’s favourite yacht, take home souvenirs from the Nancy Blackett stall and meet Nancy Blackett Trust President Peter Willis. Other activities and attractions planned for […]
Swallows and Amazons fans can now get specially discounted tickets for this summer’s theatre productions of “Swallows and Amazons” in Chester, thanks to Storyhouse. A new version of the stage play by Bryony Lavery will have just ten performances at the Storyhouse Theatre between 1st and 30th June, before transferring to the Grosvenor Park Open […]
A glorious Spring Bank Holiday weekend in the Lakes saw a number of “Swallows and Amazons” events organised by the Arthur Ransome Society (TARS) around its IAGM, including sailing Swallow (from the 1974 film) on Coniston Water. Here are some highlights from the weekend with contributions from TARS President Sophie Neville, who was also interviewed […]
You can now listen to the short interview that Sophie Neville gave to BBC Radio Cumbria ahead of the Swallows and Amazons events held in the Lake District over this Spring Bank Holiday weekend. Sophie spoke to Mike Zeller on Thursday 24th May about how, 45 years ago to the day, she was filming swimming […]
During this coming week “Swallows and Amazons” will be celebrated over several days with a series of events held in the Lake District. Sophie Neville, president of The Arthur Ransome Society, will be at the Braithwaite Institute near Keswick tomorrow (May 24th) to give a 45th anniversary talk on ‘The Making of Swallows and Amazons’. She […]
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