Watch a video of Nancy Blackett sailing on the Orwell in September, filmed by Marjie Edwards. To find out more about joining the Trust for the chance to sail on Nancy Blackett please see our Membership page.
Members of the Nancy Blackett Trust made the most of September and enjoyed sailing Nancy Blackett during the last of this year’s summer weather. Highlights included more trips to the Walton Backwaters and shorter day sailing just along the River Orwell past Pin Mill, including a special visit to the Selina King exhibition at the […]
Restoration of the barge Growler has just passed an important milestone with the insertion of the first piece of new timber into the hull. It’s one of 10 new frames, using oak timber bought with help from the Nancy Blackett Trust’s Young Sailors Fund. Growler is a 34ft, one-third size sailing barge dating from 1922, […]
Here are some of the highlights of today’s Marathon Reading of Pigeon Post in the Coniston Coppermines Youth Hotel, as told by some of the participants. Please note: to see any single full-size photograph, click on the relevant tweet to see it. To view a photos in a group, clicking goes to the original tweet, […]
A marathon reading of Arthur Ransome’s classic story Pigeon Post is happening near Coniston tomorrow (29th September). The all-day event starts at 8am at the Coniston Coppermines Youth Hostel and has been organised by writer and lecturer Chris Routledge, in association with The Arthur Ransome Trust, who also staged a similar reading of Swallows and Amazons on […]
Update (January 3rd 2020): Please note that plans for this event are currently under reconsideration due to the illness of our proposed speaker Libby Purves. We hope Libby will be recovered and well enough to fulfil the engagement later in the year, and wish her well. Meanwhile we are holding the booking for March 20th at […]
Nancy Blackett has had a busy summer of sailing trips for members of the Trust along the East Coast, from local daytrips and overnight stays on the Rivers Orwell and Stour, to venturing further afield – south to “Secret Water” and north to Southwold and Lowestoft. On the way, our members have encountered lounging seals, […]
Earlier this summer author Marc Grimston explored Bank Ground Farm on the eastern shore of Coniston Water, best known as the model for “Holly Howe” in Swallows and Amazons, home of Swallow and the farmhouse where the Walker family stay for the holidays…
Earlier this week Greg Simpson borrowed the steam launch Bruin for a run down the River Crake from Coniston Water to Allan Tarn (Octopus Lagoon in Swallows and Amazons) as seen in this short video:
Earlier this summer author Marc Grimston went in search of the Dog’s Home, a small stone hut in woods that was a location in The Picts and the Martyrs, the eleventh and last completed book set in the Lakes in the Swallows and Amazons series. Notoriously challenging to find on the ground, the Dog’s Home […]
With two weeks of the summer holidays still to go, there are still plenty of Swallows and Amazons activities left to do, some of which continue into the autumn or beyond. For theatre-goers, Swallows and Amazons the musical is on stage at York’s Theatre Royal until August 24th, while the Windermere Jetty Museum has Swallows […]
Coniston-based adventurer Sean Conway swims to and explores Wild Cat Island (Peel Island, Coniston Water) in this video below. Click the loudspeaker icon in the video playback controls to turn on the sound.
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