Item List (18)

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Self portrait of W H Bartlett, from the cover of his book Working A Canoe Up A Rapid
Born in Kentish Town, London, William Henry Bartlett (1809 - 1854) was a travel-writer, artist and engraver, who become one of the leading topographic illustrators of his generation. He travelled widely and produced works providing history and…

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Marcus Huish, writing in 1907, provides a rather discerning appraisal of the state of Boston Town Hall which he laments is rented ‘to a dealer in second-hand furniture, the whole place being in consequence squalid and dirty’. Nonetheless, Elizabeth…

The Old Hall, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. Mary Chettle (1907).
Connecting the Mayflower to popular history and literature, Marcus Huish, writing in 1907, provides an extract from George Elliot’s Mill on the Floss and a brief narrative of events relating to The Old Hall, Gainsborough: "'All down the middle ages…

The Mayflower Stone, Plymouth. Mary Chettle (1907).
Marcus Huish, writing in 1907, visits the recently installed Mayflower Stone in Plymouth. The scene is again illustrated by Elizabeth Chettle, showing children laying flowers near the memorial; a visual embellishment rich in pathos: "It was not until…

St. Botolph’s Boston – Mary Chettle (1907).
Like William Henry Bartlett 60 years before him, Marcus Huish visits Boston’s remarkable church: St Botolph’s, a notable local landmark and a relic from Boston’s time as a wealthy medieval trading port. The church has become an important location on…

Scrooby Manor House. Mary Chettle (1907)
Once more following on the footsteps of William Henry Bartlett, Marcus Huish visits in 1907 the remains of Scooby Manor, the home of William Brewster. Since Bartlett’s tour in the 1850s, the site had become more established as a point of interest on…

Rivington Pike, Lancashire. Mary Chettle (1907)
In a rather speculative manner, Marcus Huish (writing in 1907) suggest that the young Miles Standish ‘must have frequented’ the local landmark Rivington Pike ‘if only to gain a larger view of the world around him’. The use of speculation, and…

Druxbury Hall, Lancashire. Mary Chettle (1907).
In contrast to Elizabeth Chettle’s romantic illustrations of the English countryside, Marcus Huish provides (in 1907) a less idealised description of industrial Lancaster with its ‘[w]orked-out collieries with tottering chimneys, and windowless…

Chorley Church, Lancashire. Mary Chettle (1907)
Marcus Huish visits, in 1907, St Laurence's Church, Chorley, the burial place of the Standish family. The Standish pew was described by Pevsner as "the best example of its type in North Lancashire" and had become another point of interest on the…

Babworth, Nottinghamshire. Mary Chettle (1906).
The radical preaching of Richard Clifton (d. 1616), rector of All Saints' Church, Babworth, is thought to have inspired William Brewster to begin a Separatist Church in his family home in Scrooby. William Bradford also apparently walked to All…