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This small sculpture of Edward Winslow, a Pilgrim Father born in Droitwich Spa, was commissioned by Kandahar Real Estates, the owner of the town’s shopping centre. Sara Ingleby-Mackenzie was the artist; she imagined Winslow taking his first steps…

John Howland was the Pilgrim passenger best known for having fallen off the ship halfway across the Atlantic! He was baptised in the Church of St Peter and St Paul (dating from the 13th to 15th centuries). In 1966, the Pilgrim John Howland Society…

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 –…

Several passengers on the Mayflower came from Essex. Christopher Martin, who was originally the governor of the leaky Speedwell, was at one time a churchwarden in Great Burstead – though went on to get himself in trouble for dissenting from the…

Captain Christopher Jones was based in Rotherhithe, on the Thames, with the Mayflower; he was buried in the grounds of St Mary’s Church in 1622 (though the grave is now lost). A blue plaque on the church states ‘In 1620 the Mayflower sailed from…

William Brewster and William Bradford, according to most historians, worshipped at All Saint’s, Babworth, under the preacher Richard Clifton, until each broke with the established church in the early 17th century. The church dates to around the 15th…