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Plymouth - as the final port of departure for the Mayflower in 1620 - was one of the key sites for the 300th anniversary celebrations, with a full programme of events. Some events were very much aimed at the civic elite - there was a whole load of…

At the time of the Mayflower tercentenary, it would have been difficult to find a more fitting venue for commemorating the Pilgrim Fathers than Baxter Church in Kidderminster, Worcestershire. Baxter Church was named for the well-known Puritan Richard…

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 Surrey Threatre was the venue for the London performance of Stirling and Hayes’s play about the Mayflower, which had had its debut in Plymouth at the end of August. It began its run in London in late September at the Surrey Theatre (since…

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…

This Mayflower celebration in 1920 was utterly tiny, but took a very unusual and rather charming form. The Baptist Church Sunday School brought its young scholars together to demonstrate the building of the Mayflower ship to the accompaniment of…

In 1889, a huge Monument to the Forefathers was erected in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and interest in the Mayflower was hotting up on both sides of the Atlantic. Two years later in 1891 a delegation of American descendants and representatives made…

‘The Mayflower’ pub in Rotherhithe commemorates the supposed mooring of the ship nearby before it travelled to Southampton in 1620 to pick up the Pilgrims. The captain of the voyage in 1620, Christopher Jones, also lived in the neighbourhood and is…

Marcus Huish, writing in 1907, visits the recently installed Mayflower Stone in Plymouth. The scene is again illustrated by Elizabeth Chettle, showing children laying flowers near the memorial; a visual embellishment rich in pathos: "It was not until…

The Memorial Church of the Pilgrim Fathers was one home of the Congregationalists in London, and stood in Buckenham Square, New Kent Road in Southwark, from the 1860s to 1941. After the mid-19th century growth of interest in the Mayflower, the…