There are an amazing amount of variations on the loggerheads design, from the truly imaginative to the quite bizarre. Smokin Salop have stuck to their USP though - the knife and cleaver in the design indicate what they do; they are a competition BBQ team (from Shrewsbury of course!).
The four quarters of its shield represent the four Midlands counties that this unit is associated with, with Shropshire's symbol in the bottom right-hand.
Now, why's that? Why are they missing?
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If you just look up, and carefully, you'll see plenty of loggerheads, even in the most unlikely places.
This set is on the hopper of a rain downpipe at the Old Market Hall in Shrewsbury town centre.
The first floor area (which you glimpse here) would have been an civic-administrative space, which is why there are loggerheads all over the OMH. Nowadays, the first floor at the OMH is a cafe and small independent cinema.
I guess that the loggerheads device on this hopper is what would you'd call an example of civic pride in action.
Which firm would have erected these?
The proud lion of the Lion Hotel in Shrewsbury stands atop a loggerheads device, though in this instance, it has a chevron separating the three leopards' heads from each other. The basic loggerheads faces also would have dangling tongues - but not here.
Curiously, this prominent sculpture is round the back of the hotel, facing a small municipal car-park, so most tourists never see it. Shame.
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