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In contrast to Elizabeth Chettle’s romantic illustrations of the English countryside, Marcus Huish provides (in 1907) a less idealised description of industrial Lancaster with its ‘[w]orked-out collieries with tottering chimneys, and windowless…

Taking place indoors in the Southampton Guildhall in May 1947, the Southampton Quincentenary Pageant was staged as part of a larger celebration put on to acknowledge the anniversary of the granting of a County Town charter 1447.Historical pageants, a…

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…

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…

The World Evangelical Alliance’s Mayflower celebration in 1920 took place at London’s Queen’s Hall (no longer extant). The World Evangelical Alliance marked the sailing of the Mayflower as “a new epoch in the progress of religious liberty, which was…

John Tilley and Joan Hurst married in this church, and their daughter, Elizabeth, was also baptised there along with John’s nephew Henry Sampson; all journeyed on the Mayflower, but only Elizabeth and Henry survived the first harsh winter. In 1989,…

St Bride’s Church on Fleet Street goes all the way back to a design of Christopher Wren in 1672, with churches on the site even dating many centuries previous. The history of the Church is intertwined with the USA: Virginia Dare, the first English…

Like William Henry Bartlett 60 years before him, Marcus Huish visits Boston’s remarkable church: St Botolph’s, a notable local landmark and a relic from Boston’s time as a wealthy medieval trading port. The church has become an important location on…

St Mary’s Church in Redenhall, Norfolk, is a Grade I listed Anglican place of worship dating to the 14th century (with additions in the late 15th and early 16th century). Edward and Samuel Fuller, two brothers who were baptised in the church, were a…

Edward Winslow, arguably one of the most important Pilgrim Fathers, was born in Droitwich in 1595 and baptised in St Peter’s. In October 1945, the 350th anniversary of his birth, a plaque to his memory was unveiled in the church. Commemorating…