Cheshire Heraldry Web Journal (Blog)

This post is a little bit self indulgent but I make no apologies for announcing the fact that I have just become a grandfather. My daughter, Phoebe, has given us a gorgeous granddaughter. A very warm welcome to Matilda Rose who, at 7lb 11oz, was safely delivered at 11:08 p.m. on Tuesday 7th December 2010.
Whoopee! 

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I was searching Google this morning for references to the Malbank barons of Nantwich and decided to flip to the image view. Up popped a number of images which I remembered making for the “King’s Vale Royal” section of the Cheshire Heraldry web site some years ago; curiosity got the better of me and I clicked on one […]

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I don’t live too far away from Boscobel House so today will see a few local celebrations though I wouldn’t mind betting that the (English) man in the street if asked what was special about today would most likely think that the question related to the fact that, by coincidence, this is a “bank holiday” weekend and would have no […]

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In July 1957 The Heraldry Society launched its new coat of arms upon the world in its journal, The Coat of Arms.  

In the same edition its Hon. Editor in Chief, J.P. Brooke-Little, gave his view on “What does such and such a coat of arms mean?”. Whilst the piece on the arms of The Heraldry Society clearly sets out an […]

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 I recently made some acerbic comments about the logos adopted by the two new Cheshire councils and I was particularly harsh over the one created for Cheshire West and Chester Council because it was, in my view, pseudo heraldry on the cheap. I am not a fan of pseudo heraldry, especially when there is an obvious […]

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When is a Guild not a Guild? When it becomes a Miscellany!
A very well attended meeting of The Cheshire Heraldry Society on Saturday saw John Titterton step into the breach at the very last minute (almost literally) after a last minute telephone call from an indisposed Barry Wilde who, despite trying his hardest to fight […]

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I often get requests from the uninitiated to translate blazons and more often than not, where it is a genuine plea for assistance, I am only too pleased to advise as long as it doesn’t divert me too much away from earning a living. I do tend to get rather choosy when I am asked to […]

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 It is with immense sadness that I report to my reader the death of David Gordon Allen d’Aldecamb Lumsden of Cushnie, SMOM, MA, FSA Scot. who died yesterday 29th August 2008. 
Born on the 25th May 1933 in Quetta, Baluchistan, India he was the last of the family to hold the title of Baron of Cushnie […]

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Being an amateur armorist I have often been accused of living in the past, an accusation I have always strenuously denied.
I now have positive proof that far from living in the past, I do in fact live in the future.
For decades now I have been the contented owner of a Casio W-59 watch described by […]

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