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Congregationalism was a growing nonconformist denomination in the Victorian period, and one that increasingly liked to trace itself directly back to the Pilgrim Fathers (see, for example, the Pilgrim Father's Memorial Church built in the 1860s). In…

A number of celebrations were held in London, the most significant of which was Hugh Parry’s Mayflower Pageant. But a great many smaller celebrations also took place, usually in the form of lectures and public meetings. On one Saturday in October…

Well-attended meetings were held in the afternoon and evening at Clasketgate Wesley Chapel in Lincoln to mark the 300th anniversary of the Mayflower voyage. Upbeat talks were given by the Revs. Walter H. Armstrong, F.J. Harvey, and F. Luke Wiseman,…

Following Mayflower events at the Wesleyan Chapel for the 300th anniversary, a “Mayflower sale of work” was held at the Newland Congregational Church with the aim of raising £500; £273 8s 5d was raised on the opening day alone. The opening of the…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…