​ ​ Monday 31st December 11.00am - 5.00pm Tuesday 1st January CLOSED ​Wednesday 2nd January 10.00am - 7.00pm Then normal opening hours

We finally made up our dithering minds and decided to maintain the underwater theme set by our award winning* shop window by chosing "20,000 Leagues under the Sea" for our Christmas Film. It has to be said that 20,000 leagues is a very long way down. In fact, not only would my dive watch start leaking, but you would pop out the other side. However, let's not get pedantic, it's a great film and it is the first ever example of Steam Punk. I doubt I can back that up with evidence but I'm sure I...

Arthur Beale were proud to be one of the sponsors of this competition. The Arthur Beale prize of a £300.00 voucher went to Peter Hunt who was the winner of the "Skills in Action" section with this splendid picture of the crew of "Tres Hombres" about to set sail. You can view all the winning pictures on www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk. Well worth the visit.

Arthur Beale are proud to be sponsoring the prize for the "Skills in Action" section of the competition. Judging the shortlisted entries will take place next week and the Awards Ceremony takes place at Trinity House on Tuesday 13th November. There are some fantastic photographs so the judges will have a hard time! Here is one of the Skills in Action entries "Caulking" by Peter Pangbourne

If you are in London this weekend then why not visit the St Katharine Docks Classic Boat Festival? What could be better than strolling around the dock feasting your eyes on the beautiful brightwork and gleaming bronze shining from a host of beautiful traditional craft. You'll be able to go onboard some of them and even have a go at kayaking courtesy of Moo Canoes. There will be jazz from the National Youth Orchestra and various workshops. Arthur Beale will be there with our colourful stand to...

Can you take a photo as good as this one by David Stearne? Then you could win £300.00 worth of tools or equipment from Arthur Beale! You would need to win the "Skills in Action" section with a photo of someone operating or maintaining an historic vessel. So before you get to work preparing your boat for the season give some thought to entering this maritime competition and walk away with some lovely new tools. There are other categories to enter with more prizes. Take a look at www...

We regret to have to announce that this talk has been cancelled. I am afraid we forgot to book the hall and despite frantic efforts we were unable to find an alternative venue. We apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused.

We don't do Black Friday but we do have our annual Noggin the Nog Weekend! Yes this weekend we will be showing continuous Noggin the Nog cartoons whilst serving Hot Chocolate and Mulled Wine and Christmassy Nibbles. There will be some Special Noggin Weekend Only Deals which we are still dreaming up. There will be a Christmas Tree too! We will have lots of staff on hand to help you choose presents for even your most awkward relations. It will generally be a festive antidote to chain store...

Arthur Ransome’s "We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea" was inspired by his boat the "Nancy Blackett" which appears in the book as the Goblin. But there was more to her influence on the novel than that, as Peter Willis shows in this new book, which combines an analysis of this classic of maritime literature (“a book of which Conrad would have been proud” – Hugh Brogan) with the history of the boat herself, her life, near-death, restoration and renaissance as an ambassador for Ransome and his tales. Also...