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Southampton’s most elaborate monument to the Mayflower voyage was erected in 1913. Standing on the Western Esplanade, chosen to be as near as possible to the point of departure, it consists of a Portland stone square column that rises fifty feet from…

In 1970, the influence of the Tercentenary was large enough to be felt in places that had no real claim to the Mayflower story. In Coventry, this even extended to local planning and street names. As reported by the Coventry Evening Telegraph, the…

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 Pilgrim Father William Brewster was baptised in this parish church (built in the 15th century and restored in the Victorian period). In 1955, a special return pilgrimage of 104 American Pilgrim descendants (plus 48 guests) toured Holland and…

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…

Scrooby, in Nottinghamshire, is famous today for its associations with the Pilgrims as the home of William Brewster and a meeting place for the Brownist congregation led by John Robinson and Richard Clyfton. It was not until the late 1840s, however,…

The Pageant of London was a gigantic and spectacular historical re-enactment in four parts, staged 120 times over the summer of 1911. Linked to the Festival of Empire and Coronation of King George V, it was the biggest and boldest of the pageants of…

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…

Once home to William Brewster, the remains of Scrooby Manor were demolished in the early 19th century. After its associations with Brewster were discovered by the historian Joseph Hunter in the 1840s, its popularity as a site of Pilgrim Fathers…

Interest in the Pilgrim Fathers was growing among Congregationalists on both sides of the Atlantic in the late 19th century. In 1891, the first International Congregational Council was held in London - an opportunity for Americans to tour the Pilgrim…