Smoking for loggerheads

 

In the old days when nearly everybody smoked, cigarette companies gave away a free card in each pack as a sort of extra incentive to get people to buy.  Depending on the promotion at the time, these might be cards of famous footballers or international flags or Kings & Queens and so on; and there were usually about twenty to be collected. 

This is a photo of such a card.  Perhaps Wills had put together a collection of 'shields of arms of local authorities' (?). It doesn't sound the most exciting promotion though....

A new book has now been published to celebrate 600 years of the loggerheads - click here to find out more.

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The Beast at Shrewsbury Archives

 

The poster advertising a talk at Shrewsbury Archives features this single-loggerhead. By definition, loggerheads come in threes, but single-loggerheads do appear now & again. 

The featured image is a photo of the wonderful metal carving on the main door at the Shrewsbury Archives building. It's a fine piece of art.  (Does anyone know who created it?)

The talk, on May 29th at 2pm, is actually about how to research obscure subjects, such as the loggerheads, at the Archives.

A new book has now been published to celebrate 600 years of the loggerheads - click here to find out more.

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Loggerheads far from home

 

This set of loggerheads is actually in a stained glass window in Oxton Catholic Church in Merseyside, so you might reckon at first that they are a little lost.  However, in this instance, the loggerheads still signify a Shrewsbury connection.
First, Oxton is in the Catholic Diocese of Shrewsbury, even though it is a good few miles from the actual town of Shrewsbury.
Secondly, the main body of the window (which is a really lovely work of art) depicts Saint Winefride, who is the patron saint of Shrewsbury, even though she lived in North Wales.

The window was created by a Shrewsbury woman, Margaret Agnes Rope, in 1929 and is one of a number of windows by her in this small church.  All her windows here are sublime and well worth the effort to go and see them if you can. 

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Collectors of loggerheads

 
It had been hoped to have a Loggerheads 600th exhibition this year to mark the emblem's anniversary.  It would have been a 'people's exhibition' in that, alongside the historic artefacts, there would have been items temporarily loaned by local people.  However, it was not be.

Many local people's loans would presumably have been one such as this souvenir spoon, now quite rare, which would have been sold as a takeaway item at Shrewsbury Castle.  The enthusiast who now has it says that loggerheads-collecting is his passion, and he has many more items. 

(Image: copyright I Pritchard)

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