Lancashire Coat of Arms

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286836

Reference identifier

ZCO20221118002

Title

Lancashire Coat of Arms

Place

Lancashire

General notes

An imaginary Lancashire Coat of Arms postcard, posted from Huddersfield (Yorkshire) to Worsley near Manchester (Lancashire) in 1906.
The design features the clogs, owl (for Oldham?), beer tankard, and mutant bugs which appeared on another coat of arms published in Halifax, Yorkshire.
It features a coal miner, who appears to be wearing sabots (wooden shoes) rather than Lancashire clogs. Perhaps the artist believed the myth that sabot-wearing Flemish weavers had settled in Lancashire in the 14th century and that Lancastrians wore sabots from then on? There is also a myth that sabots were worn in Yorkshire until the early nineteenth century, until clogs spread over the border from Lancashire.

Medium

Postcard

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Year of image

1906

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Subjects

INDUSTRY > Mining

TRADITIONS > Traditions

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