Item List (16)
- Type is exactly "Mixed Commemoration"
Mayflower 350 (Southampton, 1970)
In 1920, Southampton had held one of Britain’s largest anniversary celebrations of the Mayflower voyage – only Plymouth could make a challenge to that supremacy. By the time the 1970 commemoration came around, however, Southampton’s Devonian rival…
Type: Mixed Commemoration
Plymouth, 350th anniversary of the voyage (1970)
The Mayflower 70 celebrations were centred around Plymouth. There was much anticipation of the events in the British media and hopes that the festivities could be a boost to the economy of the South-West. A five-page feature length article in the…
Type: Mixed Commemoration
Lichfield, Staffordshire (1970)
Lichfield played no part in the original story of the Mayflower, as far as we know - though leading Pilgrim Edward Winslow was born not that far away in Droitwich. Nonetheless, like other places, this small city was one of many to play a small part…
Type: Mixed Commemoration
Torbay, Devon (1970)
In a brief article entitled 'The Mayflower and All That' the Torbay Express and South Devon Echo reported on the festivities held in one of Devon's small boroughs, Totnes. There, the local townspeople dressed 'in Elizabethan rig' as part of the…
Type: Mixed Commemoration
Tags: 350th anniversary
The search for a Mayflower past, Romford, Essex (summer, 1920)
The town of Romford to the east of London tried very hard indeed to find connections between itself and the Mayflower. It had its own Mayflower Tercentenary Committee, an affiliate of the Essex committee, whose job it was to organise tercentenary…
Type: Mixed Commemoration
Tags: Civic pride, Tercentenary
A very western Mayflower celebration, St John's Hall, Penzance, Cornwall (October, 1920)
Penzance’s was the most westerly of all the Mayflower celebrations for the 300th anniversary in 1920, but by no means the smallest. In fact, this was probably one of the largest celebrations that did not involve a traditional play or pageant.…
Type: Mixed Commemoration
Mayflower celebration, Wordsworth Hall, Penrith (November, 1920)
The 300th anniversary celebrations at Penrith – a far cry from the Mayflower’s southern and midland roots – were presided over by the Chief Constable of Cumberland and Westmorland, Colonel Turnbull of Barton Hall, Penrith. Like other small-scale…
Type: Mixed Commemoration
Tags: nonconformity, Tercentenary
Mayflower Tercentenary Celebration, Royal Albert Hall and other venues, London (September, 1920)
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…
Type: Mixed Commemoration
Gainsborough (1970)
There were a number of events held in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire as part of the 350th Mayflower celebrations. One event was an exhibition held in Gainsborough’s Old Hall, an important point on the Mayflower tourist trail illustrated in both William…
Type: Mixed Commemoration
Tags: 350th anniversary, Civic pride
Dartmouth (1970)
Dartmouth's claim to fame in the Mayflower story was accidental - the ship, along with the Speedwell, pulled into the small harbour after the latter sprung a leak. Commemoration in Dartmouth did not really start until the 1950s. In 1970, however,…
Type: Mixed Commemoration
Tags: 350th anniversary, Civic pride