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imported_Fluffy_Bunny 07-18-2004 08:53 AM

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

Merlin122 07-18-2004 10:50 AM

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.

Madmartagen 07-18-2004 01:09 PM

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/

Pyro 07-18-2004 01:21 PM

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.

Coleman 07-18-2004 02:50 PM

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).

TGB! 07-18-2004 03:05 PM

California. . .heres our state symbol:

[img]http://www.los-angeles-attractions.net/images_files/tour/orignal/hollywood.jpg[/img]

Tripper 07-18-2004 03:14 PM

[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]

Scalping Chief 07-18-2004 03:27 PM

[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

Scalping Chief 07-18-2004 03:29 PM

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

Hobbes 07-18-2004 03:38 PM

[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]

Hobbes 07-18-2004 04:32 PM

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]

imported_Fluffy_Bunny 07-18-2004 04:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Madmartagen
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/

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



Quote:

Originally Posted by Pyro
england is in no way the greatest country known to man :)

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...

Machette 07-18-2004 05:19 PM

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:

Ferich 07-18-2004 06:34 PM

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]

Scalping Chief 07-18-2004 07:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Machette
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:

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


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