Drumming for loggerheads

The famous South Stand Drum was used by football supporters of the Bring Back Our Loggerheads campaign. Its loud boom would ring out regularly round the stadium during matches at Shrewsbury Town Football Club.
The BBOL campaign came about in the early 2000s after the owners of the club replaced the traditional loggerheads badge on the club shirt with a new image.  And - kudos to those fans! – after a ten-year programme of protests and publicity, the loggerheads badge was eventually restored.

The South Stand Drum has now been retired - but can still be seen, displayed in pride of place at the Twelfth Man Vintage Football Shirts shop near the town centre.

 

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

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Yeomanry's anniversary too

  

By coincidence, 2025 is a significant year not just for the loggerheads but for the Shropshire Yeomanry regiment. It is the 150th anniversary year of the North and South Shropshire Yeomanry. 
The anniversary is being celebrated with a small exhibition at St Mary’s, Shrewsbury town’s central church.

The Yeomanry badge has always carried loggerheads (as you’d expect), though the design can vary quite a bit. In the photo above, there are three versions of Yeomanry loggerheads!
(For other variants used by the Yeomanry, see Sharp Militaria and Helmeted Loggerheads).

The Shropshire Yeomanry were transmuted into the 75th and 76th (SY) Regiments Royal Artillery during WW2.

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

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