Just a double?

 

It's rare to see just a pair of loggerheads. They come in threes traditionally.
Here, on this frieze in Grope Lane in Shrewsbury, we only see two, though they do have slightly different expressions one to the other.
Why just two?

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Yeomanry designs

 

Although the loggerheads are often used formally in shields of arms in the devices of Shropshire organisations, the application is not always strict. 
In fact, one of the interesting aspects of a study of the loggerheads is that they are designed and drawn in so many different ways - they can look quite different for different organisations and at differnt periods.

For example, in these wreaths, although all using the Shropshire Yeomanry regiment badge, the loggerheads-sets have three different designs!

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Dog, not leopard

 

Sometimes, one gets obsessive, and thinks that anything vaguely resembling an animal face might be a loggerhead.  They are not always, of course.

Here on English Bridge in Shrewsbury, the animal is probably a Talbot dog, the symbol of the Earls of Shrewsbury. Not a loggerhead.

The Dresser

 

On the back wall of The Dresser, a fashionable clothes shop in Shrewsbury is this plaque of loggerheads. It looks like a hobby-piece, rather than a civic installation.
The owners, who like it as a fun-piece, say they have no idea how it came to be there, or who made it.

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Welcome to 2009

 

This sign on the Frankwell roundabout reading Welcome To Shrewsbury naturally incorporates the town's official logo.  Curiously, it is a little out of date, as the logo seen here is that of Shrewsbury & Atcham Council which was abolished in 2009.  A new council - Shrewsbury Town Council - arose out of the ashes, and adopted a slightly different logo.

Salop House mark

 

You'd think there would be something distinctively Salopian about a building called Salop House (on College Hill in Shrewsbury).
But no, nothing one can see - except for the insurance badge.

Insurance badges are ubiquitous in Shrewsbury. Used by fire insurance companies to work out which homes were insured with them, they were also a marker for a fire engine in days gone by. Wrong insurance mark - and the fire engine left without helping!

The 'Salop Fire Office' was the longest-established of these companies, and its marks, some of which are over 200 years old, are still on frontages today all over the county. As you can see, they carry the loggerheads plus the word SALOP.

Student souvenirs

 The University of Shrewsbury has only been in the town two years, but it has kept things traditional; it immediately adopted the loggerheads device, and now, as you can see, it's all over their souvenir-ware.