Further Vexillations
For those of you who have been enquiring about the design of the Cumbrian flag bumper sticker: herewith an image -
I could personally do without the block title in the middle - though even hereabouts it's debatable whether anyone would recognise it without.
Perhaps if there are any vexillographers among our readership they could explain exactly how it should be described and what it means?
I could personally do without the block title in the middle - though even hereabouts it's debatable whether anyone would recognise it without.
Perhaps if there are any vexillographers among our readership they could explain exactly how it should be described and what it means?
posted by Nick at 8:48 pm
11 Comments:
Scot rotated 45 degrees as he crossed the border?
Sounds pretty convincing . . .
The Campiagn for True Identity (http://www.lakelandtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=152&ArticleID=935214) and the Association of British Counties (http://www.abcounties.co.uk) aren't going to like this. Did the bumper sticker salesmen make it up?
Piers - I suspect that someone saw the 'Cornish flag' (actually the ecclesiastical arms of St Piran) & decided to have a go at their own version for Cumbria (though for all I know they pilfered the arms of St Kentigern or St Begha, if such things exist).
I've always assumed that the 'True County Identity' thing has long been a code for loopy ultra-Thatcherites, the 'new' identities being tainted by association with the ancien regime of Heathite corporatism. As to the Association of British Counties, they seem pretty ill-informed too . . .
I think you are right about the traditional county brigade; a yearning for the days when everything was good and pure!?!
As flags go, I've always rather liked Northumberland's - http://www.northumberland.gov.uk/VG/flag.html
Well, I'd been expecting a dead whippet flottant on a lake of brown ale, but that really is a quite stunning design - very powerful.
Gives thought for a true Cumbrian flag though - a sausage rampant on a sea of rum butter! Very sadly you have got me perusing a few vexillography sites. There are some people who really do need to get out more. It looks as though the ancient counties never had flags of their own, presumably so the army would rally to a national standard rather than regional ones. Didn't stop the Wars of the Roses though. Clearly Northumberland sneaked in and got its own while it was still a kingdom!
Lex, if young Hooper's recreating Great Moments From Thomas The Tank Engine on a silk flag, I do hope he's careful when he comes to the bit where the guard spills his cocoa.
I've created my own Cumbrian Flag for taking to Cumbrian sporting events (primarily Carlisle United matches. It is simply the Cumbrian coat of arms in the centre (on white bar) with a blue bar horizontally above, and a green bar horizonatl below.
I've had a couple printed up, and they've made several appearances. Also got one in my car window.
Hail Cumbria!!
Thats just a cumberland flag!
Westmorland should be included!!
Just returning to comment on my previous Anonymous outing. My blue-white-green Cumbrian flag has now made several outings and even ranks quite highly in a Google search at third and fourth listing. This is Kynson, the Cumbrian Separatist, signing off ;-)
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