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Mayflower Lecture Online: The Two Mayflowers
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Centuries apart but with Waveney Valley Connections. Local speaker Geoff Doggett, a lifelong sailor and wooden boat enthusiast, investigates the similarities between the original and replica Mayflowers.
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Centuries apart but with Waveney Valley Connections. Local speaker Geoff Doggett, a lifelong sailor and wooden boat enthusiast, investigates the similarities between the original and replica Mayflowers. He touches on their navigation and voyages in a way not heard before and brings in some local heritage to the ships’ construction.
This lecture will be presented by Geoff Doggett, local sailing enthusiast and founder of the River Waveney Trust.
This is a FREE event but you must register:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcqd-6hqj0tHd0W53yTzvAfh_4zAurOoAVE
This presentation is part of our Mayflower 400 in Harleston Lecture series where are running monthly lectures on the third Thursday of each month. Look out for future presentations.
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Mayflower Lecture Online: Meet Old Harleston
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Local historian Gordon Lascelles. will travel back in time to see how Harleston grew from a hamlet into an important market town. We will meet some of the characters from the 1600s and see how they lived and worked.
Travel back in time to see how Harleston grew from a hamlet into an important market town. We will meet some characters who actually lived and worked in Harleston and Redenhall in 1600. Two of the families are Fullers, and could be related to the people who sailed to America some 400 years ago. Discover how wealthy some were, but still how short their lives could be - whilst others lived so long! Find out how unfairly a family’s money might be passed on - and just what value a pound had in those days. Discover how Harleston tackled the Plague when it arrived here in the 1620s!
This lecture will be presented by Gordon Lascelles, local historian.
This is a FREE event but you must register:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYuce-vrjMoE9GkEnYnUhSGgJ5HvXNnK24t
This presentation is part of our Mayflower 400 in Harleston Lecture series where are running monthly lectures on the third Thursday of each month. Look out for future presentations.
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Mayflower Lecture: Myths and Legends (TBC)
Rita Cruise O'Brien, author of The Mayflower: Myths, Truths and Legacies, considers the myths and legacies of the Mayflower story.
The sailing of the Mayflower in 1620 is a celebrated foundation myth of the United States and a global symbol of the flight from oppression to freedom. It is a migrant story with a powerful resonance for the events of our time. This year is the 400th anniversary of the voyage. My book aims to unravel the Mayflower legends and legacies with intriguing stories from the true historic narrative. The fraught and troubled beginnings of the Pilgrims, as they became known, emerged as the touchstone of the America’s sacred beginnings, eclipsing the earlier story of Virginia and the South well before the Civil War. Join author Dr Rita Cruise O’Brien to learn more.
Tickets £5 per person (£4 concessions) and can be reserved at (pre-booking recommended) - or can be purchased at the door.
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Guided Walk: Harleston Highlights
In many old guide books Harleston is described as being a town of Georgian and Victorian houses. Whilst the centre of the town looks like this is the case, in reality the buildings are far older - but hidden! What we see here is just a facade, beneath which the Harleston of the 1300s to 1600s.
In many old guide books Harleston is described as being a town of Georgian and Victorian houses. Whilst the centre of the town looks like this is the case, in reality the buildings are far older - but hidden! What we see here is just a facade, beneath which the Harleston of the 1300s to 1600s remains! It just has to be discovered. Join this walk to discover the unique story of the town.
Tickets £4.00 per adult, children under 15 accompanied by an adult go free. There are a series of guided walking tours around the town throughout the summer. All walks last about two hours.
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Guided Walk: Mayflower 400 in Harleston
A family from Harleston were on board the Mayflower ship which sailed to America 400 years ago. They became involved in the very foundation of America as we know it today.
There are many buildings surviving today which would have been familiar to our Harleston Mayflower Pilgrims. Take a journey back in time to reveal what lies beneath the modern buildings and discover the Harleston of 1600. Watch as today’s buildings transform into their former selves. Find out why our pilgrims left Harleston and what life was like 400 years ago in the very spot where we stand today.
The ‘Mayflower 400 in Harleston’ walks are being held in conjunction with the 2020 exhibition about the ‘Mayflower Fullers of Harleston’ in the local museum. Our walks will included a special opening just for us.
This is a very special walk, showing the important role Harleston has played in the very creation of the world’s largest and most successful country.
Tickets £4.00 per adult, children under 15 accompanied by an adult go free. There are a series of guided walking tours around the town throughout the summer. All walks last about two hours.
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