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In some places village signs have been surveyed and recorded. In Kent, signs erected in more than half of the county villages have been identified. [3] In 1929, Harry Carter, an art and woodwork master at Hamond's Grammar School in Swaffham, carved a sign for his home town. By the time of his death in 1983 he had carved over 200 town and ...
Flore in Northamptonshire has two motifs, a flower and a plum, but there is a great deal of symbolism between them. Not only is the flower a canting reference to the village name, but its stamen portrays a maypole pattern. The UK Flags Registry of the Flag Institute is responsible for maintaining the definitive list of regional flags. Several ...
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A flag divided from top-left to bottom-right by a white line, with a white cuckoo on black in the hoist, and a white tower (defaced with a green key) on green in the fly. 2011: Flag of Kingswinford reg (Town, West Midlands) 2013: Flag of Newbury reg (Town, Berkshire) 2009: Flag of Newton Abbot (Town and civil parish, Devon)
The black diamonds represented coal mining and the red and silver zig-zag pattern steel processing: on top of these were placed white roses. The crest was a Yorkshire rose joined to a "bezant" or golden coin for the county's wealth. The supporters: a horse with a hoe and a lion with a pick-axe stood for agriculture and coalmining respectively.
The Barbary lion is an unofficial national animal of England. In the Middle Ages, the lions kept in the menagerie at the Tower of London were Barbary lions. [6] English medieval warrior rulers with a reputation for bravery attracted the nickname "the Lion": the most famous example is Richard I of England, known as Richard the Lionheart. [7]
A white blossom flower on purple and a purple plum on gold divided by a diagonal wavy line. (Registered by the Flag Institute) [69] Flag of Hampton Poyle: A white saltire on red with a black border with golden bezants. (Registered by the Flag Institute) [70] Flag of Horningsea: A potter at his wheel counterchanged across a vertical bisection ...
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