Christopher Jones plaque (Harwich, 1952 )

Harwich has a claim to fame in the story of the Pilgrim Fathers; the captain of the ship, Christopher Jones, at one time lived and married in the town, and the ship itself – according to the best guesses of some historians - was possibly even built there. 

There is a plaque, made of cast iron and dating from 1952, on Jones’ house.

Also pictured is another cast aluminium plaque in the town in memory of the Mayflower, erected in the early 1970s by the Harwich Society, a civic organisation formed in the previous decade to ‘help preserve the ancient seaport’.

There is also a statue of Jones in Rotherhithe, where he was later based with the Mayflower.

https://www.harwich-society.co.uk/writing-the-history-on-the-walls/