No loggerheads for society

 While loggerheads are ubiquitous in Shrewsbury, they are not universally applied to every town organisation - perhaps surprisingly.

For instance, the Shrewsbury Civic Society's logo does not feature the loggerheads - though it does give a geographical map of the town-scape (Shrewsbury lies within the River Severn which loops around the town).

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Buxton's leopard

 

Like I've said elsewhere in this photo-blog, one can get obsessive in 'loggerheads-spotting'.

Much as I would like it to be, the animal here is obviously not a proper loggerhead.  

This is a piece of stained glass seen in the Pump Room at Buxton; and although Buxton is in Derbyshire, not far from Shropshire, we are definitely no longer in loggerheads-country here!

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Just a double?

 

It's rare to see just a pair of loggerheads. They come in threes traditionally.
Here, on this frieze in Grope Lane in Shrewsbury, we only see two, though they do have slightly different expressions one to the other.
Why just two?

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Yeomanry designs

 

Although the loggerheads are often used formally in shields of arms in the devices of Shropshire organisations, the application is not always strict. 
In fact, one of the interesting aspects of a study of the loggerheads is that they are designed and drawn in so many different ways - they can look quite different for different organisations and at differnt periods.

For example, in these wreaths, although all using the Shropshire Yeomanry regiment badge, the loggerheads-sets have three different designs!

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Dog, not leopard

 

Sometimes, one gets obsessive, and thinks that anything vaguely resembling an animal face might be a loggerhead.  They are not always, of course.

Here on English Bridge in Shrewsbury, the animal is probably a Talbot dog, the symbol of the Earls of Shrewsbury. Not a loggerhead.