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…
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…
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…
Last month the Walton and Frinton Yacht Club hosted the Old Gaffers Association’s Swallows and Amazons weekend in the Walton Backwaters – Arthur Ransome’s ‘Secret…
Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Bill Buckhurst, will be performed in rep alongside The Tempest and a new version of Swallows and Amazons by the Tony nominee playwright Bryony Lavery. Artistic director Alex Clifton said: “We simply …
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 the photo album from the day below, and…
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…
The new popular production of “Swallows and Amazons” at the Storyhouse theatre in Chester has received positive reviews by theatre critics. Writing in the Reviews Hub, Jo Beggs says that the new adapation…
A celebration of Arthur Ransome’s Norfolk Broads stories and boats was held at the Norfolk Broads Yacht Club’s Open Day over a glorious May Day Bank Holiday weekend, as Sophie Neville reports…