Mate Andy Morley shows what Nancy Blackett and her crew got up to yesterday on Breydon Water and at Reedham, where she is sailing on the Norfolk Broads for the first time in twenty years, and meeting friends old and new… Thursday 12th July 2018
Here’s your chance to catch up with yesterday evening’s interview on BBC Radio Norfolk, where mate Andy Morley spoke to presenter Matthew Gudgin live from Great Yarmouth about Nancy Blackett’s return to the Norfolk Broads… Listen using the player below or download it here (duration 4:31, size 5MB, broadcast 11th July 2018). Header photo: Andy […]
Marooned by a gusty northerly wind one day, and suffering a lumpy sea the next, Nancy Blackett and her crew finally made it to Great Yarmouth, as mate Andy Morley resumes his tale… Tuesday 10th July 2018 Wednesday 11th July 2018
Arthur Ransome’s Nancy Blackett is in the Norfolk Broads for the first time in 20 years. Here’s the story of the first three days in words and photos from mate Andy Morley: Saturday 7th July 2018 Sunday 8th July 2018 Monday 9th July 2018
Arthur Ransome’s Nancy Blackett entered the Norfolk Broads on Saturday (7th July) for the first time in over 20 years, as part of her East Coast summer cruise. She passed through Oulton railway swing bridge and the lifting road bridge, and then Mutford Lock at about 11am to enter Oulton Broad. Then, with Japanese Ransome […]
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 – […]
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