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image by Ian Sumner, 11 July 2013
The flag appears to be a banner of the arms of the City Council (crest,
supporters and scroll excluded)
"The arms, designed by H. Ellis
Tomlinson, combine elements of the five local authorities that formed the new
city of Salford in 1974. The shield retains were approved by letters patent of
the Garter King of Arms and based upon the former Borough of Salford arms; the
blue background with a gold 'chief', giving the heraldic colours of the Earls of
Chester, from whom Salford received its first charter in 1230.
Also from
Salford are the gold shuttle and five bees, representing the growth of five
industrial communities round a centre of the textile industry, and the two black
millrinds (the iron centres of millstones) as symbols of engineering.
The
ship motif comes from Eccles and signifies the importance of waterways in the
area. The crest, a red-half griffin holding a flag staff with a pennon, with
three boars heads, is one of the former Eccles supporters. The boars heads were
also seen in the Irlam arms, and the circle of steel around the griffin's neck
was part of the Irlam crest, symbolising the town's great industry.
The
supporters'-lions brandishing miners' picks are similar to those of Swinton and
Pendlebury. Each lion is collared with a steel chain (a further symbol of
engineering) holding a white pentagonal medallion. On one medallion is the black
pheon, or broad arrow, which, with the red lion, appeared in the arms of Worsley,
whilst on the other is the boar's head from the crest of Swinton and Pendlebury,
shown in that former borough's livery colours of red and gold.
The motto,
already described, is that formerly used by the Borough of Swinton and
Pendlebury, Salus populi suprema lex ("The welfare of the people is the highest
law")."
http://www.salford.gov.uk/armorial.htm - Salford City Council website
Ivan Sache, 18 July 2013
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