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Hugh Parry’s pageant, which you can read more about here, travelled around the UK throughout 1920 and into the next year. In February 1921, it came to Sheffield. The fanfare around the event was huge: newspapers had begun trailing the spectacular in…

The town of Romford to the east of London tried very hard indeed to find connections between itself and the Mayflower. It had its own Mayflower Tercentenary Committee, an affiliate of the Essex committee, whose job it was to organise tercentenary…

Lancashire always claimed a certain affiliation with the Mayflower story because of Myles Standish’s local connection. As residents of one of the premier cities in “Standish country”, the people of Preston felt entitled to have their own performance…

Penzance’s was the most westerly of all the Mayflower celebrations for the 300th anniversary in 1920, but by no means the smallest. In fact, this was probably one of the largest celebrations that did not involve a traditional play or pageant.…

The 300th anniversary celebrations at Penrith – a far cry from the Mayflower’s southern and midland roots – were presided over by the Chief Constable of Cumberland and Westmorland, Colonel Turnbull of Barton Hall, Penrith. Like other small-scale…

This celebration for the 300th anniversary of the Mayflower voyage took the simplest form: a service at the Congregational Church which was located on the Green at Ossett. As at similar events elsewhere, speakers took the floor to reflect on the…

The 1920 Mayflower tercentenary is notable for its religious character, particularly its non-conformity. Many of the people who led the way in organising the tercentenary celebrations were members of the Free Church Council, made up of Quakers,…

This celebration in the Primitive Methodist Church at Ellesmere is another example of the innumerable small-scale local celebrations organised across towns and villages in Britain under the auspices of the Free Church Council. The Council was hugely…

Bredon’s Norton was the site of an old Tudor manor house which became the setting for a highly successful and popular Mayflower celebration during the tercentenary year of the voyage in 1920. One of the primary reasons for its success was the…

Throughout the summer and autumn of 1920, Bredon’s Norton’s local Manor House, home of the Manor House Club, was the scene of many celebratory events organised by Victoria Woodhull Martin (1838-1927), an American ex-pat with a storied past. Woodhull…