The English seaside town millions of tourists often forget about – with free Victorian pier and blue flag beach

MORE than a million holidaymakers a year pass through Harwich but most barely give the Essex town a sideways glance as their ferry sails out towards the Hook of Holland.

But it was a voyage from here 400 years ago that could be said to have changed the course of ­history.

The ship was the ­Mayflower and it was built in Harwich by Captain Christopher Jones, who then risked life...