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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It's Loggerheads Day!

 

Today (May 2nd) is Loggerheads Day… at least, so far as Shrewsbury Town Football Club supporters are concerned.  It was on this day in 2015 that the Shrewsbury loggerheads were rightfully restored to the club’s badge, after a hiatus in which a rather ordinary lion had replaced them (Lord knows why!).

It only happened however because of a year-long and very loud campaign by fans (which was of course dubbed the Bring Back The Loggerheads Campaign). To their credit, the club’s owners listened, and then agreed with the fans. 

The campaign is remembered in a lovely poem, a framed copy of which is to be found in The Loggerheads Pub in central Shrewsbury.  It’s a funny pastiche on the stirring St Crispian's Day speech by the king in Shakespeare's play of Henry V.  It’s really clever.

The mystery is:  who was the author?

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