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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…

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…

In addition to the pageant put on by Rev. Hugh Parry, the Mayflower tercentenary also saw the production of several original plays, including John Alden's Choice, performed in Southampton, and The Seed and the Fruit performed in Exeter. Probably the…

The Westminster Abbey Chapter House was completed in 1255 as part of Henry III’s rebuilding of the abbey. Following the dissolution of the monasteries in the 1530s, the Benedictine monks left; until 1863 this ornate building was used as a meeting…

William Mullins was a Mayflower passenger who died in the first harsh winter in the new colony; his daughter, Priscilla, went on to marry John Alden (now immortalised in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s fantastically popular poem The Courtship of Miles…

Chatham, on the Medway in North Kent, was one of several towns and cities to undertake performances of the Mayflower Pageant written by the Rev. Hugh Parry (which you can learn more about here). Like many early twentieth-century pageants, Parry’s…

Under the auspices of the Anglo-American Society, an audience at the Imperial Hotel in Birmingham (now Imperial House, Temple St - visible on the left of the image) was one of the first to hear readings from a new play written by Birmingham author Mr…