Cheshire Heraldry Web Journal (Blog)

 It must be the silly season again. Despite the fact that we are in a financial depression we appear to still be spending money on salaries for people in such public posts as chairman of the Speaker’s Advisory Council on Public Engagement. Yesterdays Telegraph newspaper reported that Dr Jonathan Drori, chairman of the Speaker’s Advisory Council on […]

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Recently sold on Ebay were two livery buttons belonging to the Marquis of Crewe.

Sold for £12.99 plus £1.85 shipping. There was one bidder.

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Whenever The Cheshire Heraldry Society embarks on an outing we are always accompanied by a number of guests from neighbouring Societies and one of our regular guests is Chris Ward of The Lancashire Heraldry Group. Chris never goes anywhere without his camera and for some time now I have been persuading him to share some […]

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Way back in September 2008 I helped Cheshire born and bred motor cycle racer Rob Dixon to design a Cheshire emblem for his bike and he promised to send me a photo of the emblem being used in anger. I’m pleased to report that today I received a very pleasant email from Rob accompanied by that very photo.

In his email […]

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Quite near to where I live is the rather attractive tourist town of Much Wenlock, which, because of its history, is entwined closely with The Olympics; some of my web log readers may be aware that next year the Olympic Games are to be held in London and The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic […]

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I have commented on the apparent lack of any fail-safe checking mechanism between the Court of the Lord Lyon and The College of Arms before (arms of Massey of Dunham) and today I stumbled upon yet another example where the ancient arms of a Cheshire gentleman have been granted to someone (or in this case […]

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I’ve just returned from a long weekend in Anglesey where the arms of Bulkeley seem to be everywhere. We had a very good meal on Monday evening in the Bulkeley Arms Hotel in Beaumaris where not only are the arms displayed outside on the facia but there is also a very pleasant version made of coloured […]

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I picked up these three heraldic items from an antiques fair a couple of weeks ago. After haggling I paid the princely sum of £3.50 for all three. Two small tea plates and a felt backed heraldic (advertising) tile. Not of any great value but nonetheless conversation pieces.

Forfar
 
Glasgow

Pilkingtons

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All of the new images have now been added to the Vale Royal (Kinderton Roll) part of the site.

http://cheshire-heraldry.org.uk/vale_royal/

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