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This celebration for the 300th anniversary of the Mayflower voyage took the simplest form: a service at the Congregational Church which was located on the Green at Ossett. As at similar events elsewhere, speakers took the floor to reflect on the…

This celebration in the Primitive Methodist Church at Ellesmere is another example of the innumerable small-scale local celebrations organised across towns and villages in Britain under the auspices of the Free Church Council. The Council was hugely…

The World Evangelical Alliance’s Mayflower celebration in 1920 took place at London’s Queen’s Hall (no longer extant). The World Evangelical Alliance marked the sailing of the Mayflower as “a new epoch in the progress of religious liberty, which was…

Several passengers on the Mayflower came from Billericay in Essex – including Christopher Martin, who was originally the governor of the leaky Speedwell. There had been religious dissenters in the town since the early 17th century; after the…

The commemoration at Newcastle-under-Lyme for the 300th anniversary of the Mayflower voyage took the form of an address by the Rev. A. Wilkes, of Tunstall, President of the North Staffordshire and District Free Church Federation. The chairman for the…

Well-attended meetings were held in the afternoon and evening at Clasketgate Wesley Chapel in Lincoln to mark the 300th anniversary of the Mayflower voyage. Upbeat talks were given by the Revs. Walter H. Armstrong, F.J. Harvey, and F. Luke Wiseman,…

Kenilworth was one of the great many towns that celebrated the Mayflower tercentenary in 1920 by holding a lecture. A lecture hardly seems like a celebratory event, but in fact a lecture on the story of the Pilgrim Fathers and their journey on the…

Tercentenary events took many forms, ranging from large-scale public entertainments, like pageants, to small-scale lectures held at chapels and churches. The latter events tended to be aimed at members of non-conformist communions, often under the…

Like in many other places, the Free Church Council was responsible for bringing the Mayflower Tercentenary to Guernsey. The island was well beyond the usual geographic range of the Mayflower story, but even so, its residents were keen to understand…

Lincolnshire claimed a special connection to the Mayflower story because a number of the ship’s occupants had come from that part of the country, principal among them being William Bradford, who became the second governor of the Plymouth Colony. Thus…