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As part of the 350th year anniversary of the Pilgim Fathers' sailing from Plymouth in 1970, the Devonport Royal Dockyard desinged and built a scale model of the Mayflower to a 1:11 inch scale. The model features 360 fathoms of rigging made of sewing…

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…

In a rather speculative manner, Marcus Huish (writing in 1907) suggest that the young Miles Standish ‘must have frequented’ the local landmark Rivington Pike ‘if only to gain a larger view of the world around him’. The use of speculation, and…

Throughout the summer and autumn of 1920, Bredon’s Norton’s local Manor House, home of the Manor House Club, was the scene of many celebratory events organised by Victoria Woodhull Martin (1838-1927), an American ex-pat with a storied past. Woodhull…

This event in Richmond, one of many in Britain staged for the 300th anniversary of the Mayflower voyage in 1920, is an example of the importance of simply telling the story of the Pilgrim Fathers to audiences who did not necessarily have much…

The description of Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, provided by Mackennal paints an appealing picture of rural England. The quotation of the Nottingham village as existing in 'a pleasing land of drowsyhead’ borrows from well-known poet James Thomson (1700 –…

William Henry Bartlett gave the following illustration and written account of the bucolic landscape near Scrooby in the 1850s: "It is one of those rich pastoral districts common enough in merry England, which, having no marked features of hill and…

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…

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…

Hugh Parry’s pageant, which you can read more about here, travelled around the UK throughout 1920 and into the next year. In February 1921, it came to Sheffield. The fanfare around the event was huge: newspapers had begun trailing the spectacular in…