Shropshire blue

 

Shropshire, as a county, picked up on the loggerheads as a symbol only recently (if you think the end of the nineteenth century is recent...). 

But… why is the arrangement in blue & white colours (the one that we see here in the main picture) the one that the county most displays on its buildings?  

As we all know, the dominant colours of the device are traditionally blue & gold, or blue & amber, and, yes, the county emblem is officially in those colours (see pic right).

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