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The congregation of Union Chapel was formed in 1799 when a group of evangelical Anglicans broke away from the church to join with other nonconformists. Their aim was to create a 'Catholic and liberal plan' that would 'unite Christians of different…

Laurence Washington, who died in Maldon, Essex in 1652, was the great-great grandfather of George Washington. In 1924, Malden, Massachusetts was celebrating its 275th anniversary. Isaac Lothian Seymour, vicar of Maldon back in the ‘Old World’, was…

Southampton’s most elaborate monument to the Mayflower voyage was erected in 1913. Standing on the Western Esplanade, chosen to be as near as possible to the point of departure, it consists of a Portland stone square column that rises fifty feet from…

The Memorial Church of the Pilgrim Fathers was one home of the Congregationalists in London, and stood in Buckenham Square, New Kent Road in Southwark, from the 1860s to 1941. After the mid-19th century growth of interest in the Mayflower, the…

In 1889, a huge Monument to the Forefathers was erected in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and interest in the Mayflower was hotting up on both sides of the Atlantic. Two years later in 1891 a delegation of American descendants and representatives made…

In 1941, the original ‘Memorial Church of the Pilgrim Fathers’ – built in 1864 – was reduced to rubble by a Luftwaffe bombing raid. In 1956, a new church, costing £17,500, was opened on Great Dover Street not far from the previous site. Winthrop…

St Bride’s Church on Fleet Street goes all the way back to a design of Christopher Wren in 1672, with churches on the site even dating many centuries previous. The history of the Church is intertwined with the USA: Virginia Dare, the first English…

The Plymouth Guildhall, today Grade II listed, was built in 1874 in a Gothic revival style. Part of the new building was a series of fourteen windows that told the local history of Plymouth in connection with the national story of Britain. These…

In 1607, the Separatists – later ‘Pilgrim Fathers’ – tried to escape to Holland from Boston on the north-east Lincolnshire coast. Their ships’ captain betrayed them, however, and they were arrested, put on trial and imprisoned. In late 1954, the…

Francis Webster & Sons was a textiles firm in Arbroath, founded in the late 18th century and only ceasing business in the 1990s. In 1956, they were commissioned to weave the canvas sails for the replica ship ‘Mayflower II’ that was being built at…