The Lancashire Flag

Bob Dobson · 22-03-2009, 09:53

I suspect that many will not know that there is now an officially-recognised Lancashire flag. It is intended that this will cover ALL of Lancashire, not just the bit administered by Lancashire County Council, i.e. including places such as Wigan, Liverpool,Manchester and Barrow in Furness which are still in 'traditional Lancashire'. There are those who now say that even Blackburn is not in Lancashire because it is no longer part of the Lancashire County Council area.( I am searching for a word beginning with a 'b' which means 'nonsense')

The flag is a heraldic red rose on a gold/yellow background. We couldnd't have a white background because one was already registered with The Flag Institute.

See the flag on the website of The Friends of Real Lancashire (FORL) :- www.forl.co.uk Look too at The Flag Institute's website

I have urged the FORL to undertake a major publicity campaign to tell folk about the flag.

I intend to post another item about Lancashire Day.

jaysay · 22-03-2009, 11:08

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Originally Posted by Bob Dobson

I suspect that many will not know that there is now an officially-recognised Lancashire flag. It is intended that this will cover ALL of Lancashire, not just the bit administered by Lancashire County Council, i.e. including places such as Wigan, Liverpool,Manchester and Barrow in Furness which are still in 'traditional Lancashire'. There are those who now say that even Blackburn is not in Lancashire because it is no longer part of the Lancashire County Council area.( I am searching for a word beginning with a 'b' which means 'nonsense')

The flag is a heraldic red rose on a gold/yellow background. We couldnd't have a white background because one was already registered with The Flag Institute.

See the flag on the website of The Friends of Real Lancashire (FORL) :- www.forl.co.uk Look too at The Flag Institute's website

I have urged the FORL to undertake a major publicity campaign to tell folk about the flag.

I intend to post another item about Lancashire Day.

I agree with your sentiments about on the Blackburn issue, and of the stupid signs on every boundary of the town both sides, a complete waste of money

wadey · 22-03-2009, 14:18

Thanks for the link

Bob Dobson · 22-03-2009, 21:56

Here's one for the pub quizzers amongst you:-

Q. What does a vexillologist do?

A. Studies flags - the sort that fly from flagpoles, not the sort you walk on.

wadey · 22-03-2009, 22:50

You learn something every day

jaysay · 23-03-2009, 10:58

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Originally Posted by wadey

You learn something every day

No you don't wadey, I already knew that

cropped up a few times on TV quiz shows

Bagpuss · 23-03-2009, 20:37

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Originally Posted by Bob Dobson

We couldnd't have a white background because one was already registered with The Flag Institute.

So who or what owns the right to fly this flag? This is the one I've got and I noticed on my way home that the flag man from Bold Street (recently featured in the Accrington Observer) was flying the same flag today.

Bob Dobson · 23-03-2009, 21:50

The one shown is not an officially-registered one. It may be said that it isn't a flag because it is words rather than symbols. I have learned that you can see various county flags on the website of the Flag Institute....go to national flags and there's a drop-down for county flags. Not many counties have them.

Bagpuss · 24-03-2009, 18:15

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Originally Posted by Bob Dobson

I have learned that you can see various county flags on the website of the Flag Institute....go to national flags and there's a drop-down for county flags. Not many counties have them.

I visited the website before making my post and it shows the yellow/gold version as I've never seen that being flown always the white one I assumed the white version was the Lancashire flag.

lancsdave · 24-03-2009, 20:08

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Originally Posted by Bagpuss

So who or what owns the right to fly this flag? .

I would also like to know what sort of copyright issues a flag has ?

Bob Dobson · 24-03-2009, 20:39

My belief is that it has none, as it is in common 'ownership' - the people of lancashire own it but that is not to say that (say) a Tyke could not show it. That it has been registered by a body (FORL) who represent the whole of Lancashireniot just the Friends organisation, says that it has no true owner and therefore nobody can claim copyright. It was registered for the common good. As somebody once said of a park in Oldham - "Tha'rt an Owdhamer - it's thine" .You won't have seen the yellow before because that part of it is new to differentiate it from white, which was pre-claimed by the folk of a Scottish county before we could object. Incifdentally, Tykes have a white rose and it is placed with the centre leaf 'upside down' compared with ours.Awkward buggers.