As the 50th Anniversary year of the original Swallows and Amazons film draws to a close, Sophie Neville looks back at the making of the film and forward to what still might be half-a-century on… “The smell is just the same.” Suzanna Hamilton began rowing me across Coniston Water from Bank Ground Farm, taking us […]
Amazon, the traditional sailing dinghy that features alongside Swallow in the classic film Swallows and Amazons, will be on display outside the Riverside Cinema, Woodbridge, Suffolk, this Saturday, 13th July, when the film, celebrating its 50th anniversary, is being screened at 2pm. As well as celebrating the anniversary, the event – organised by TARS East […]
Next weekend (29th and 30th June) sees the 50th Anniversary celebration of the original Swallows and Amazons film in the Lake District at the Windermere Jetty Museum. Hosted by the Arthur Ransome Society, the weekend will see the reuniting of the cast and crew with the restored Swallow and Amazon dinghies from the film. There […]
TARS – The Arthur Ransome Society – has taken ownership of the two iconic dinghies featured in the 1974 film of Swallows and Amazons, with the aim of restoring them in time for the film’s 50th anniversary next year. Swallow was bought for £1 from the ‘SailRansome’ group which had managed her since the collective […]
Swallow, the dinghy from the 1974 Swallows and Amazons film, was part of the last Sunday’s episode of the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow. Sail Ransome’s Rob Boden received a valuation for her from paintings expert Rupert Maas, as shown in the clip below: Swallow was purchased in 2010 with assistance from the Nancy Blackett Trust, when […]
Swallow from the original Swallows and Amazons film will be featured on the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow this Sunday (21st February). Fiona Bruce (pictured above) and the Antiques Roadshow team will present the episode from the Windermere Jetty Museum. The episode will include a valuable collection of silver trophies awarded to a pioneering woman sailor, a James […]
Swallow from the original Swallows and Amazons film visited the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow at Windermere Jetty on Tuesday. Rob Boden took her along while filming was taking place, and enjoyed answering questions from art expert Rupert Maas about how she was acquired at auction in 2010 (with some assistance from the Nancy Blackett Trust) and […]
Sophie Neville explores the stories of some of the boats that appeared in the original “Swallows and Amazons” film… I went on BBC Radio Cumbria recently, to ask if I could meet anyone involved in filming the original film of ‘Swallows and Amazons’ in the summer of 1973, since it was made on location in […]
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 […]
Our photo album from the relaunch of the Swallow from the 1974 “Swallows and Amazons” film at Coniston on Sunday 10th April 2011, including shots of Bank Ground Farm (“Holly Howe”) and Swallow’s restored boathouse, with additional photos by Dan Ford. (Further pictures can be found at Sailing in the Lakes.) View the album directly […]
Watch our video below of Swallow under sail on her maiden relaunch voyage on Coniston Water, with Sophie Neville and Helen Lewis, plus the final visitor trip of the day on 10th April 2011.
Following the relaunch of the Swallow on April 10th 2011, Rob Boden of Sail Ransome decided that it would a great idea to recreate a scene of the Swallows being seen off by Mother. With a willing crew of volunteers and Sophie Neville playing Mother, this is what happened…
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