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Deep in the countryside of Buckinghamshire, in the small Quaker village of Jordans, the ‘Mayflower Barn’ has been claimed since the early 20th century to be made out of timbers from the original ship. James Rendel Harris, a notable if eccentric…

Thursday 16th September 1920 was the date accepted as marking exactly three hundred years since the sailing of the Mayflower from Plymouth. Thus that date was chosen as the first day of the Mayflower Tercentenary celebrations in London. Earlier in…

In 1941, the original ‘Memorial Church of the Pilgrim Fathers’ – built in 1864 – was reduced to rubble by a Luftwaffe bombing raid. In 1956, a new church, costing £17,500, was opened on Great Dover Street not far from the previous site. Winthrop…

The World Evangelical Alliance’s Mayflower celebration in 1920 took place at London’s Queen’s Hall (no longer extant). The World Evangelical Alliance marked the sailing of the Mayflower as “a new epoch in the progress of religious liberty, which was…

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 Plymouth Guildhall, today Grade II listed, was built in 1874 in a Gothic revival style. Part of the new building was a series of fourteen windows that told the local history of Plymouth in connection with the national story of Britain. These…

Several passengers on the Mayflower came from Billericay in Essex – including Christopher Martin, who was originally the governor of the leaky Speedwell. There had been religious dissenters in the town since the early 17th century; after the…

Several passengers on the Mayflower came from Billericay in Essex – including Christopher Martin, who was originally the governor of the leaky Speedwell. There had been religious dissenters in the town since the early 17th century; after the…

Norwich’s celebrations were talked of at least a year in advance of the tercentenary. The previous May, the Norfolk Protestant Dissenters’ Benevolent Society met for its 120th annual meeting, during which the various members discussed the…

The commemoration at Newcastle-under-Lyme for the 300th anniversary of the Mayflower voyage took the form of an address by the Rev. A. Wilkes, of Tunstall, President of the North Staffordshire and District Free Church Federation. The chairman for the…