We talk a lot on this blog about the blue-gold colouring of the loggerheads’ design – gold for the leopards' faces, blue for the background. It has been a constant feature of the emblem all down the centuries.
So it is natural that Shrewsbury Town Council, the direct ‘descendants’ of the original Shrewsbury Corporation, which first created and adopted the loggerheads, should also sport blue-gold as their colours. By extension, anything that wants to feel ‘Shrewsbury’, should also come in that combination.
This explains the slightly garish painting on the railings of this pedestrian bridge in Shrewsbury which crosses the Rea Brook stream into Meole Brace village. The decorative colour-work, which has appeared just in time for the loggerheads' 600th anniversary year, tells us that this is the work of an organisation that is proud to demonstrate the traditional blue-gold of Shrewsbury.
Actually, it's doubly clever to have painted this bridge in blue-gold. This bridge is on the route that Shrewsbury Town Football Club supporters use when they want to walk back into town from the club's stadium.
And the colours of Shrewsbury Town Football Club are... of course... gold and blue!
A new book has now been published to celebrate 600 years of the loggerheads - click here to find out more.
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