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The Mayflower House Museum is an 18th-century period historic house museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts operated by The Mayflower Society, also known as the General Society of Mayflower Descendants. The Society purchased the Edward Winslow House in 1941.
The house is in rendered and colourwashed brick, with cogged eaves, and pantile roofs with coped gables. There are two storeys and an L-shaped plan, with a front range of three bays, and two rear wings. In the centre is a doorway, the windows on the front are horizontally-sliding sashes, and the ground floor openings have segmental heads. [11] II
Billericay is the setting of the BBC sitcom Gavin & Stacey as the home of Gavin Shipman (Mathew Horne) and his parents; however, the actual filming took place in Wales. The Cater Museum, a charity, is a local history museum containing artefacts recording the lives of people in the area. It is housed in an 18th and 19th-century Grade II listed ...
Mayflower Residence Hall is off the market and will continue to house students. The University of Iowa listed it for sale for $45 million last summer.
The frontispiece of Mourt's Relation, published in London in 1622. The booklet Mourt's Relation (full title: A Relation or Journal of the Beginning and Proceedings of the English Plantation Settled at Plimoth in New England) was written between November 1620 and November 1621, and describes in detail what happened from the landing of the Mayflower Pilgrims on Cape Cod in Provincetown Harbor ...
Clacton Pier Lifeboat House. The old lifeboat house on Clacton Pier was vacated in 2006, and a new boathouse was constructed at Hastings Avenue, just under 1 mi (1.6 km) to the west of the pier. This provided up-to-date crew facilities and storage, along with housing for both Inshore lifeboats and launch tractors.
The Harwich Mayflower Heritage Centre (formerly Project) is a museum and charitable community project whose main goal is to establish a "legacy for Essex", both through constructing a full-scale replica of the famous Mayflower ship which transported a hundred Pilgrim Fathers from England to America in 1620, and through celebrating the history and heritage of Harwich, a town in the south-east ...
Harwich / ˈ h ær ɪ tʃ / is a town in Essex, England, and one of the Haven ports on the North Sea coast. It is in the Tendring district.Nearby places include Felixstowe to the north-east, Ipswich to the north-west, Colchester to the south-west and Clacton-on-Sea to the south.