Dispatches from Southwold
The Nancy Blackett Trust’s Sailing Secretary, John Smith, updates us on the last leg Nancy’s homeward voyage… “I checked Nancy Blackett out yesterday after our engineer left…
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Dispatches from Lowestoft
The Nancy Blackett Trust’s President Peter Willis and Chairman Roger Sturge spent a fairly ‘interesting but ultimately frustrating’ Saturday afternoon at the Royal Norfolk and…
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Norwich theatre to host a Swallows and Amazons-themed open day
Tom Williams will be running technical workshops and Jez Pike, director of productions, will be talking about about the upcoming production of Swallows and Amazons which will run from August 18 until September 2. Visitors will also be given a sneak …
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Celebrate the tale of Swallows and Amazons
A reading of a classic children’s tale will mark the end of a summer-long exhibition. Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons will be told by special readers on September 3 as a show at the at the Ruskin Museum in Coniston about the author and his most …
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The Lakes with kids – our break at Bank Ground Farm
The Lake District has huge nostalgia value for my husband and I. Well, Coniston, more specifically. Just this week awarded World Heritage status, the Lakes were the very first place we went on a long weekend away…
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Sailing the Nancy Blackett in Dutch waters – part two
Nancy Blackett, the 28 foot cutter Arthur Ransome bought with Spainish gold, as he called his royalties from ‘Swallows and Amazons’ is an old lady now. Built by Hillyards of Littlehampton in 1931, she turns 85 this year and yet…
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Swallows and Amazons the Musical Comes to Norwich
You can grab a chance to see Helen Edmundson’s theatrical adapation of “Swallows and Amazons” in Norwich from mid-August. The Norwich Players are putting on a production of…
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Lowestoft Lifeboat called in after engine failure on historic yacht favoured by Swallows and Amazons author Arthur Ransome
A historic yacht reputed to be favourite of “Swallows and Amazons” author Arthur Ransome has been rescued by a Lowestoft crew after her engine failed off the Suffolk coast…
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Nancy Blackett Returns… To Lowestoft
Nancy Blackett is now in Lowestoft, having left Vlissingen early yesterday morning to avoid the worst of the forecast winds. Unfortunately the engine kept stopping and then stayed stopped, so she was…