Your town & county crest
 

post it bithc

motto- invicta/unconquered

HISTORY
1067 – The ‘Invicta’ legend of Kent.

In his chronicle written in the XIIIth century, Thomas Sprot, a monk of St. Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury, Kent, describes how the men of his county, under Archbishop Stigand and Abbot Egelsin, gathered near Swanscombe soon after William of Normandy had been crowned as king. Each with a green bough held aloft in the left hand and a sword in their right hand they surrounded the Normans who were on their way to Dover. Dropping the boughs and raising their swords, they promised William their allegiance provided he would grant them their ancient laws and privileges. If he refused, then it would be war, and that most deadly. William acceded to their demands and thus the people of Kent gained their proud motto ‘Invicta’ – Unconquered.

my county flag, a white horse on a red background
[img]http://www.kent.gov.uk/e&l/aet/Images/head-logo.gif[/img]

my county coat of arms

[img]http://flagspot.net/images/g/gb)kent.jpg[/img]

my town crest
[img]http://www.city-of-rochester.org.uk/Images/crest1.jpg[/img]


cathederal/school crest

[img]http://www.diocese-rochester.org/grfx/dio-crest-shadow.gif[/img]

Army regiment crest

[img]http://www.dartfordarchive.org.uk/20th_century/magnified/hguard_cap_badge.jpg[/img]

P.S. I live in the greatest county known to man

errrr


riverton- founded during the suburban sprawl from philidelphia. Originally a part of cinnaminson.


there was a town seal some where but I dont have it on me.

Isnt fair, Fluff lives in England and everyone knows Britains towns are older and were bestowed with a cool crest. Anyways, heres my city:
http://www.anaheim.net/

england is in no way the greatest country known to man :)

Canada moved up to forth on the UN list!!! Only the norweigans, swedish and aussies beat us now.

eh, Easton, Pennsylvania here.

I don't think we have a crest (if we even do, i'm not looking for it). Our city was the 2nd place that the Declaration of Independence was read publically. Larry Holmes (the boxer) lives in our town. The Crayola (yes, those things they call crayons) Factory is stationed in Easton. We have the "National Canal Museum" oOo: , #2 wrestling team in the country (our highschool that is), During the 1700's and early 1800's Easton had the wealthiest population of America, we have currently the oldest highschool football rivalry with Philipsburg of New Jersey (Play every year on Thanksgiving and thousands show up. It was televised on ESPN back in the early 90's or something).

[quote="aucklandnz.com":0b530]In the Maori language, Auckland is known as Tamaki Makau Rau, the city of 100 lovers. It earned this name because it was a place desired by all and conquered by many.

The Auckland region is an antipasto of environments laid out on a huge platter to make one amazing city, boasting three harbours, two mountain ranges, 48 volcanic cones and more than 50 islands.

Auckland's population is approximately 1.3 million, making it by far the largest city in New Zealand, with one third of the country's entire population.[/quote:0b530]

[url:0b530]http://www.aucklandnz.com/[/url:0b530]

[img]http://www.town.whitby.on.ca/intro/Whitby_Colour_Mediuma.jpg[/img] - crest
[url:4344e]http://www.town.whitby.on.ca/intro/Flag.h1.jpg[/url:4344e] - flag (huge sucker, so i posted the url)

In 1958 Whitby gained international recognition when the Whitby Dunlops defeated Russia to win the World Amateur Hockey Championship for Canada. Famed jockey Sandy Hawley and Anne Ottenbrite, who won gold, silver and bronze medals in the 1984 Summer Olympics, grew up in Whitby as did NHL hockey players Joe Nieuwendyk, Gary Roberts and Keith Primeau who represented Canada on its 1998 Winter Olympic Hockey Team in Nagano, Japan. Other NHL players from Whitby include Adam Foote, Wayne Primeau and Jamie Allison. Mike Keenan, NHL coach

i saw adam foote in canadian tire the other day, he was behind me in the checkout, hes a huge fuck, and he was driving an escalade with colorado plates rock:
whitby pwns j00

btw i thought this was funny

According to Brian Winter, Archivist, Whitby Township (now the Town of Whitby) was named after the seaport town of Whitby, Yorkshire, England. When the township was originally surveyed in 1792, the Surveyor, from the northern part of England, named the townships east of Toronto after towns on England's North-East Coast: York, Scarborough, Pickering, Whitby and Darlington. The name "Whitby" is Danish, dating from about 867 A.D. when the Danes invaded Britain. It is a contraction of "Whitteby," meaning "White Village."

whiteby
and
During the Second World War, Whitby was the location of Camp X, a secret spy training facility on the shore of Lake Ontario, established by Sir William Stephenson, the "Man Called Intrepid". Although the buildings have since been demolished, a monument was unveiled on the site of Camp X in 1984 by Ontario's Lieutenant-Governor John Black Aird.

spys rule

[img]http://www.city.guelph.on.ca/uploaddocuments/d3108+crest_lg.jpg[/img]

Where I live now.

History of the City of Guelph's Official Crest
July 2, 2002

Guelph was founded on April 23, 1827, and officially became a town on January 1, 1856. The Town Council adopted a crest in readiness for Guelph’s proclamation as a city of April 23, 1879.
The original crest was unique. On the left side was an axeman standing beside a tree stump, representing John Galt’s ceremonial felling of a mighty tree to create Guelph. On the right side, Britannia, with gown, helmet and shield, represented Guelph’s links with the United Kingdom. She held a cornucopia containing the bounty of the rich soil of Guelph. In the centre, as Guelph’s arms, was a shield with the symbolic white running horse of Hanover, the ancient principality in Germany where the Guelph royal connections go back 1,000 years. On top, again representing Guelph’s link with the British Royal family, was the supposed Guelphic crown with a lion on it. The inscription was in Latin and read “Fides, Professio, Fidelitas

More [url=http://www.city.guelph.on.ca/document.cfm?documentid=3108&category=65:476f6]CLICK ME[/url:476f6]

I was looking for the crest of my home town of Larder Lake. I didn't find it but what turned up in the photo section of the town's web site stunned me.

[img]http://www.larderlake.net/images/plaque2.jpg[/img]

I went to school with these guys, played hockey, baseball, beat the crap out of each other all the stuff boyhood friends do until we moved when I was about 8 or 9 years old.

Until I clicked on that picture I did not know they were gone. I don't know how they died but since this plaque is placed by the lakeshore I asume that the lake claimed their lives like it has many others over the years.

[url=http://www.larderlake.net/index.html:159be]Larder Lake[/url:159be]

haha, I thought American towns had crests too though eek:



The county of Kent, not country

[quote:272b9]P.S. I live in the greatest county known to man[/quote:272b9]

The Battle of Britain took place here &tc...

hobbes i was in guelph a few weeks ago..good times..my sisters goes to that university and works at a resturant at guelph to rock:

Pennsylvania emblem/crest/design is all I can think of. I know my town has a crest, but it's not on the Internet.

[img]http://www.samrohrer.org/Images/Pennsylvania%20Information/flag.gif[/img]

i pooned some guelph noobs at the soccer feilds across the street from laurier or w/e its called

[img]http://www.wokingscc.care4free.net/crests/wokingcrest.gif[/img] rock:

Newcastle, UK
 

[img]http://www.civicheraldry.co.uk/newcastle_tyne.JPG[/img]

ARMS: Gules three Castles triple towered Argent.
CREST: On a Wreath of the Colours a Castle as in the Arms issuant therefrom a demi Lion guardant supporting a Flagstaff Or flying therefrom a forked Pennon of the Arms of Saint George.
SUPPORTERS On either side a Sea Horse proper crined and finned Or.

Motto 'FORTITER DEFENDIT TRIUMPHANS' - Triumphing by brave defence
Arms recorded and confirmed, crest and supporters granted 16th August 1575.


The castle motif goes back to earliest times for originally the town took its name from the "New Castle" built by order of Robert Curthose, eldest son of William the Conqueror, in 1080 and a castle was depicted on the twelfth century common seal. The earliest extant example of the three silver castles on a red shield, dating from about 1400, is in the window on the north side of the chancel in St. John's church.
The castle motif is repeated in the crest which is a golden demi-lion issuing from a silver castle. His fore paws grasp the golden staff of St. George's pennon depicted in red on a silver ground.
The supporters, two mythical seahorses, are a reminder that Newcastle is a seaport.
The motto was adopted during the Civil War, probably following the stubborn defence of the town against the Scots in 1644.

the_finger:

[img]http://www.adachi.ne.jp/~fukufuku/else/else_pix/gazza_party.gif[/img]fog on the tynes all mine all mine, fog on the tynes all mine