The clubs crest-please explain.
 

We all recognise the club crest.Hopefully, someone can explain to me what the items on it are;
At the top would have to be a knights helmut; immediately below are what looks like a lion of sorts whose mother may well have taken Phalidimide;beside it a stag.Then below those two it gets interesting.What is that thing, a birdseye view of the 'Cutty Sark' minus its rigging? Then at the bottom-well could that be an image from an old 'One arm bandid ' machine??:D
Please enlighten a dumb colonial.
http://www.kipax.com/images/asfc_badge.gif (Thanks K-P)

Re: The clubs crest-please explain.
 

The town of Accrington was granted a coat of arms in 1879, and it is essentially this that makes up the football club's crest today.

On the shield, the shuttle represents the local cotton spinning industry, while the cylinders and calico represent the method of printing on the cotton.

A stag represents the Hargreaves family of Broad Oak who were closely connected with these local industries, while the lion is that of the ancient family De Lacy, who held Accrington by grant of Henry VII.

The oak branch at the top of the crest is trebly allusive to the town's name, 'Accrington'. It is bent into the shape of its initial letter; oak (Anglo-Saxon 'ac') expresses the first syllable; and the acorns recall the old form of the name, Akerenton.

SOURCE Accrington Stanley F.C. Crest & Club History

Source has the wrong writing at the bottom of crest as official badge doesnot have ASFC

Re: The clubs crest-please explain.
 

Thank you K-P. Very much appreciated.