08 June 2019

Warwick Charlton: The local man who painstakingly recreated the Mayflower - and then donated it to the American people - Southwark News

Warwick Charlton: The local man who painstakingly recreated the Mayflower - and then donated it to the American people - Southwark News
... The physical ship that will be at the centre-piece of the anniversary celebrations will not be the original – but a replica, born out of a passion project from a Kennington man who from the experience of war became convinced that a ‘Mayflower II’ would help strengthen Anglo-American relations. ...
... That man, Warwick Charton, was born the son of a Fleet Street journalist in Chelsea, later living on Kennington Park Road, in 1918. ...

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