Description
Lancashire always claimed a certain affiliation with the Mayflower story because of Myles Standish’s local connection. As residents of one of the premier cities in “Standish country”, the people of Preston felt entitled to have their own performance of Hugh Parry’s Mayflower Pageant, which you can read more about here. Audiences in Plymouth, London, Manchester and other places had welcomed the pageant in the tercentenary year, but Preston had to wait until late February 1921. The wait did not dampen enthusiasm, however, and the pageant was as popular in Preston as it had been elsewhere. The Free Churches of the district provided much of the voluntary effort involved, and Rev. Hugh Parry – who, despite being minister at Harecourt in London, must at this stage have been on the road with his pageant for months – once again appeared as the villain, Blanchard. Proceeds were donated to local charities.
Source
Lancashire Daily Post, “Mayflower pageant”, 1 March 1921.