Where Was I

[peterofware]

Slender monument commemorating a departure, 3.5 miles from a flour mill and close to another monument to a departure nearby.

[mallyh]

could this be Plymouth Hoe where drake left and the other monument to the Pilgrim Fathers?

[Etch]

As mentioned in the last paragraph, the date of the puzzle is the anniversary of the second departure. Look up historic events that happened on that day.

[Etch]

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/travel/where-was-i/

The slender monument commemorating the successful departure in 1620:
https://historicengland.org.uk/services-skills/education/educational-images/pilgrim-fathers-memorial-southampton-6346

Tonight is the 110th anniversary of the night that the voyage of the second departure came to a horrifically premature end, commemorated here:
https://www.titanic.memorial/post/memorial/titanic+memorial+stone+southampton/

[peterofware]

the answer was Eling Mill and 1620

[MrsArgos]

Does anyone know anyone who has ever won the Where Was I? Puzzle

[peterofware]

thanks everybody, now out of date. The monuments were in Portsmouth