Imaginary loggerheads

 

Most people in Shrewsbury will know of the Wakeman Trail, a series of collages of ceramic tablets on public sites around the town. They were made by students of the old Wakeman School and are impressions of the town’s buildings.

Mike Griffiths, a former teacher at the school, has made it his task to get them put up.

A friend of ours spotted this loggerheads on one of the works (outside the Catholic Cathedral) and asked Mike (in pic, right) which building the relevant one represented.  

In fact, said Mike, it was no particular ‘real’ building but an amalgamation of a few... which is fair enough!


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Croziers plus loggerhead

Another single loggerhead. 
At the Shrewsbury Arms in Albrighton in east Shropshire, it's obvious that the pub's name is associated with the Talbot family, the Earls Of Shrewsbury (the biggest land-owners locally until the beginning of the twentieth century).
But why the two croziers (aka bishops' staffs)?  The seventeenth century earl was a priest (and is buried in the church opposite the pub); is that why?

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Pub carries the badge

 

One pub stands out as a real home for Shrewsbury Town Football Club supporters - The Prince Of Wales in Belle Vue.
Naturally enough therefore, its front window carries proudly the loggerheads badge of the team. These ones are slightly more bearded than the usual.

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Police mislay two loggerheads

 

The shield of arms for West Mercia Police features emblems of the three counties it represents - lion for Worcestershire, three pears for Herefordshire, and... erm... one loggerhead for Shropshire.  But... why just the one???

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Morris' hopper

 

This rather beautiful 'hopper', as these guttering-bowls are properly called, is to be found in the courtyard leading to the Morris Hall in Shrewsbury.

The man who paid for the building of The Morris Hall in the 1930s was James Kent Morris II, who had a passion for loggerheads...


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No loggerheads for society

 While loggerheads are ubiquitous in Shrewsbury, they are not universally applied to every town organisation - perhaps surprisingly.

For instance, the Shrewsbury Civic Society's logo does not feature the loggerheads - though it does give a geographical map of the town-scape (Shrewsbury lies within the River Severn which loops around the town).

Does anyone know why the Civic Society decided against the loggerheads?  

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Buxton's leopard

 

Like I've said elsewhere in this photo-blog, one can get obsessive in 'loggerheads-spotting'.

Much as I would like it to be, the animal here is obviously not a proper loggerhead.  

This is a piece of stained glass seen in the Pump Room at Buxton; and although Buxton is in Derbyshire, not far from Shropshire, we are definitely no longer in loggerheads-country here!

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