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In September 1920, the Royal Museum of Scotland welcomed the loan of a new addition to its collection of ship models: a model of the famous Mayflower. The Mayflower model was designed by Mr Morton Nance of Carbis Bay, Cornwall and constructed by Mr…

There were a number of plays and pageants produced during the Mayflower Tercentenary of 1920, some of which, like Rev. Hugh Parry’s pageant, were performed in more than one town. But Exeter had the distinction of putting on an original play by a…

The village of Golcar in West Yorkshire shows us how, as in many other towns and villages in 1920, the transatlantic Mayflower tercentenary manifested in highly localised ways. Golcar was home to a thriving non-conformist community and it was within…

The celebratory meeting at Goldenhill, near Stoke-on-Trent, on the occasion of the Mayflower Tercentenary was held under the auspices of the Tunstall Free Church Council. The Chairman for the event was Mr W.C. Colclough, who opened proceedings by –…

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…

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…

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…

The performance of Hugh Parry’s Mayflower pageant (which you can read more about here) was the biggest Mayflower event in London, and possibly in the country. The performances took place at the large Royal Horticultural Hall, Westminster, which was…

Rev. Hugh Parry’s historical pageant of the Mayflower was a roaring success throughout 1920 and into the following years. It debuted in Plymouth and had triumphant runs in Manchester and London, to the extent that the organisers were being pressed to…

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…