With Christmas upon us in just a few weeks’ time, here’s our updated handy guide to the last dates for ordering your Christmas gifts from the Nancy Blackett Shop, and to this year’s special offers. Choose from our range of Swallows and Amazons and Nancy Blackett-themed books, mugs, greetings cards, teatowels and more, knowing that the proceeds will go towards supporting […]
Grab a chance and don’t be sorry for a might-have-been! Many of our supporters have already started buying their Christmas gifts from us, so to help you plan ahead for your own shopping, here’s our handy guide to our last dates for ordering your Christmas gifts from the Nancy Blackett Shop… Please note that our […]
Grab hold of our new special offers on Nancy Blackett Christmas and greetings cards and save at least 20% when buying more than one pack. You can buy three 10-card packs of our exclusive Christmas card designs (normally £5 each) for just £10 (saving 33%). Choose from either the “Three Ships” or “Christmas in the […]
Our Nancy Blackett teatowels make great gifts, and now, to help celebrate Nancy Blackett’s 90th Anniversary, we have some special offers available on all three teatowels. Our Three Ships and Learn the Ropes teatowels were designed by marine artist Claudia Myatt, are guides to Nancy Blackett, and are made of unbleached cotton, while our 90th Anniversary teatowel reproduces Nancy Blackett’s original […]
Nancy Blackett has successfully returned to her winter quarters at Woodbridge. On Thursday (7th October) skipper Neil Brooks (with Tim Everson and Mike Hilton) sailed her round from Woolverstone Marina on the River Orwell to the Deben, where she went into the Woodbridge Tidemill Marina. Ian McGlynn, chairman of the Nancy Blackett Trust’s Sailing Committee, […]
An episode of the BBC TV Series “Villages By The Sea” that explores the boatbuilders who built Arthur Ransome’s Swallow and Coch-y-bonddhu, and includes scenes with Coch-y-bonddhu replica Peggy Blackett, was broadcast this evening (5th Oct) on BBC One North West. The episode traced Arnside’s origins and history in boatbuilding and seafaring, and is presented […]
Sophie Neville continues her exploration of new memories to include in the next edition of The Secrets of Making Swallows and Amazons (1974)… The International Movie Database (IMDB) lists Billy Mayerl’s composition Marigold as being included in the original film of Swallows and Amazons. This intrigued me. I looked up the music as I couldn’t […]
Sue Stott, the winner of the 2019 Nancy Blackett Trust raffle for a day-sail on Nancy Blackett, and a life-long Arthur Ransome fan, joined Nancy Blackett with her husband Peter for their prize sail on the 18th August. With Sue Coales and Mike Hilton as skipper and mate, they sailed down to Harwich in rather […]
Arthur Ransome’s favourite yacht, Nancy Blackett, will be seen nationwide on ITV1 this Sunday at 11:55am. She will appear in the first episode of the new series of All Around Britain, which explores some of the most glorious and fascinating visitor destinations and landmarks across Britain and Northern Ireland, and brings viewers the very best […]
Sophie Neville explores more stories to add to the next edition of The Making of Swallows and Amazons… When I was last in the Lake District, I grabbed the chance to climb to the top of Gummer’s Howe to look down on the ‘Great Lake in the North’. Arthur Ransome, who once lived at High […]
The Nancy Blackett Trust will be joining in the ‘Robertsons Boatyard and Friends‘ event in Woodbridge this weekend as part of the Deben Summer Festival. Come and visit the River Deben’s oldest working boatyard, which takes care of Nancy Blackett every year, and meet some of the Trust team who look after Nancy and find […]
At the end of his piece to camera for the ITV Anglia news story on Nancy Blackett at 90, Mike Rines, who rescued and restored her over 40 years ago to exactly as she was when Ransome owned her, confessed “actually I’d love to have another sail on her.” We can take a hint. And […]
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