(1015) Dorset Day today
Now I know I’m going to be in trouble for running this as I don’t do North Yorks or Cheshire or Lancashire, or Derbyshire or Cambridge … I mean, if I start all that, where does it end? Wessex? Texas?
Yet one of our key chaps/lads/boys hails from down there … quick quiz question … who? So, here tis:
Uh huh. There was another one like it:
You’ll notice I’ve cut out the attribution altogether. That’s because it was the Speaker of the House of Commons, the tosser. Anyway, back to Dorset:
I’m a fan of Dorset. Bournemouth, Poole Harbour, the chain ferry to the Isle of Purbeck, Studland Bay, easy access to the blessed New Forest, etc etc.
The south coast of England is blessed with some lovely spots, Apparently even Southampton was quite pleasant before the Luftwaffe imposed some urban planning on it. Still, if they hadn’t postwar socialists would doubtless have ruined it anyway.
The new Dorset Cross flag is not universally liked in the county of my birth – it got 2086 votes out of a population nearing four hundred thousand. The golden yellow links to the gold wyvern associated with the House of Wessex, circa 519 AD to 1066 AD.
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JH: Steve, can you point us to the real flag somewhere, a picture? I’ll then post it.
I distinctly remember the (big) flag that flew over the old Dorset County Council buildings in Dorchester, but that was what’s called an armorial banner: a coat of arms with three red lions passant, red fleur-de-lys below, on a white background:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Dorset#/media/File:County_Flag_of_Dorset_(older_version).png
There’s the Dorset Old (Lions) flag – dark red with two golden lions rampant. No picture for that one and I’ve only seen it once at a fair I went to many moons ago. These flags are both Norman anyway so two f**ks I could not give 🙂
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JH: Right, as long as that’s ok.
I mourns the loss of Wigtownshire, Kirkcudbrightshire and Dumfriesshire.
All disintegrated and parts stuck together to form Dumfries and Galloway.
Dumfries is a town. Galloway was an old name for Wigtownshire and Kirkcudbrightshire.
And all Royal Mail is post marked Cumbria. Eh?
In all it is about 2500 square miles. So being told that something is in D&G is not really very helpful.
End of rant.
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JH: Galling, DH.