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Described by William Henry Bartlett as a ‘romantic harbour’, his beautiful illustration of a peaceful seaside scene contrasts starkly with the difficulties the separatists faced in commencing their Atlantic voyage: "The emigrants were then regularly…

Several passengers on the Mayflower came from Billericay in Essex – including Christopher Martin, who was originally the governor of the leaky Speedwell. There had been religious dissenters in the town since the early 17th century; after the…

Remarking on the changes between Southampton of the 1620s and the city in the 1850s, William Henry Bartlett provides an illustration of a ‘curious old cannon, presented to the town by Henry VIII’ which overlooks the stop where the ‘"Mayflower" and…

Francis Webster & Sons was a textiles firm in Arbroath, founded in the late 18th century and only ceasing business in the 1990s. In 1956, they were commissioned to weave the canvas sails for the replica ship ‘Mayflower II’ that was being built at…

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…

On his 1850s tour of Mayflower sites, William Henry Bartlett travels to Standish, Lancashire, the ancestral home of the Standish family. It is not certain whether he was a Separatist, but Miles Standish was certainly one of the most well-known of the…

The Manor House in Austerfield is popularly thought to be the place where William Bradford, orphaned as a child, was brought up by his paternal grandfather and uncles. Bradford became associated with the Brownists during his adolescence before…

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…

‘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…