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One of the boldest commemorations of the Mayflower, and not just in Britain but the USA too, happened in a non-anniversary year. This was the Mayflower II, a reconstruction of what the original ship may have looked like, and its retracing of an…

‘The Mayflower’ pub in Rotherhithe commemorates the supposed mooring of the ship nearby before it travelled to Southampton in 1620 to pick up the Pilgrims. The captain of the voyage in 1620, Christopher Jones, also lived in the neighbourhood and is…

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…