Nancy Blackett Trust President Peter Willis has been interviewed by Dan Houston of Classic Sailor about his lifelong passion for the children’s author Arthur Ransome and his 1931 Hillyard cutter Nancy Blackett. In the 22-minute video interview, Peter shows Dan around both Nancy Blackett and Pin Mill, and talks about the founding and operations of the […]
Here are two more videos from Nancy Blackett’s recent visit to London, filmed by Robin Sadler – the skipper on the trip to London. The first video is of Nancy Blackett sailing across the Thames Estuary on her way to London on 8th August, while the second video is of her returning downriver to Greenwich […]
“Secret Water” was looking very inviting yesterday, thanks to the exceptionally high tides and blue sky, says Andrew Polson, who shot this short video from outdoor activity organiser Birch Hall Adventures, at Dale Hill, Kirby-le-Soken.
The Nancy Blackett Trust’s nine-hour marathon reading of “We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea” on Saturday 21st October received coverage in local media, including a short film shown on ITV Anglia News. The film included brief interviews with Griff Rhys Jones, Peter Willis and Sophie Neville, and you can watch it below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIIGetMA_jo?rel=0
The Nancy Blackett Trust’s nine-hour marathon reading of “We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea” took place on Saturday (21st October) at Pin Mill Sailing Club near Ipswich, before a large and appreciative audience. It celebrated the 80th anniversary of the book’s publication, as well as commemorating the 50th anniversary of its author Arthur Ransome’s […]
There’s just a week to go to our Marathon Reading of “We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea”, starting 9am next Saturday, 21st October. We have our book, a First Edition, in honour of the book’s 80th anniversary (first published November 1937). We have our readers, including Griff Rhys Jones, Libby Purves and Sophie Neville. […]
A panoramic video of Nancy Blackett and the Royal Harwich Yacht Club on the morning of Sunday 4th July 2017, while preparing for the Parade of Sail flotilla and her departure for the Netherlands… https://youtu.be/6aiRwNtPhow&rel=0
Watch High Water Mark perform a sea shanty at the Royal Harwich Yacht Club before the Parade of Sail flotilla on 4th June 2017:
In case you missed it, here’s Ellen MacArthur’s message to the Nancy Blackett Trust that was presented last Saturday (3rd June) at the Trust’s 20th Anniversary AGM. In her message, Ellen said: “A short message to you all – to hope you have a wonderful time at the Royal Harwich Yacht Club, and to wish […]
Nancy Blackett was featured in a television preview of the Arthur Ransome Pin Mill Jamboree last Friday (12th May) on BBC Look East. The preview also featured short interviews with Peter Willis, President of the Nancy Blackett Trust, the children of Holbrook Academy, Suffolk rehearsing part of their play of “We Didn’t Mean to go to […]
Sophie Neville and Seren Hawkes feature in this short TV profile of both the 1974 and 2016 “Swallows and Amazons” films, which was broadcast on BBC South Today on Friday (19th August) to coincide with the general release of the new “Swallows and Amazons” film at cinemas across the UK and Ireland. For a behind-the-scenes […]
With today’s release of the new Swallows and Amazons, the BBC Archive has posted the following video on Arthur Ransome from 1984, which features Dick and Desmond Kelsall: With the Swallows and Amazons movie released today, here is a nice little piece from 1984 on author, Arthur Ransome.https://t.co/Xuq1RtE4Qo — BBC Archive (@BBCArchive) August 19, 2016
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