The newly refurbished Ludlow Museum features a display case with the costumes from the town pageant in 1934.
This one – simply labelled a ‘Herald’s outfit, in blue’ – carries the three loggerheads. There was no reason for a costume in a Ludlow pageant to carry the Shrewsbury symbol, so my guess is that the person who made it (they were all hand-made) was a Shrewsbury loyalist!
The maker also got the colours right – the main costume was in blue and the trims in yellow/gold.
These leopards are 'langued' in quite an extreme way - their tongues are very long indeed.
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