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The non-conformist congregations of Leicester, which had a long history, came out in force to support the Mayflower tercentenary there: about two dozen different churches took part in a series of events that included cinema shows, historical…

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…

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,…

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…

John Howland was the Pilgrim passenger best known for having fallen off the ship halfway across the Atlantic! He was baptised in the Church of St Peter and St Paul (dating from the 13th to 15th centuries). In 1966, the Pilgrim John Howland Society…

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…

Dartmouth had an unanticipated role in the Mayflower story: as described briefly by William Bradford in his history of the voyage and the colony, the Mayflower and Speedwell had to dock in the town’s harbour after the latter sprung a leak shortly…

The end of the tercentenary year saw a number of Mayflower-themed bazaars and sales of work. Such events were often held at churches and chapels around the Christmas period to raise money for repairs and building work, and the tercentenary provided a…

This small sculpture of Edward Winslow, a Pilgrim Father born in Droitwich Spa, was commissioned by Kandahar Real Estates, the owner of the town’s shopping centre. Sara Ingleby-Mackenzie was the artist; she imagined Winslow taking his first steps…

Hugh Parry’s Mayflower pageant was a huge draw throughout the autumn of 1920. In London, the pageant was performed for 25 days, from the end of October to the middle of November. But it returned to London in April 1921, where it ran for ten days at…