Staffordshire County Flag

Stafford Chevron

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***IMPORTANT***

Now is the time to stand up for Staffordshire!
We need to have the support of ORGANISATIONS or GROUPS in Staffordshire! Do you or anyone you know belong to a organisation that would lobby The Flag Institute for the Stafford Chevron?

We now understand that registration of the County Council Banner as the county flag is to go ahead WITHIN THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS!!! Unless a major, or a collection of minor Staffordshire groups can oppose it.

Staffordshire groups, please contact the Flag Institute at chiefvexillologist@flaginstitute.org with communities@flaginstitute.org urging them not to register the Council's Banner as the county flag, and to consider our proposal, the Stafford Chevron, instead.

PLEASE SHARE THIS POST! We cannot let the famous Stafford Knot be overwhelmed by a lion which only represents the Council, on our future county flag!

www.facebook.com/StaffordshireChevron
 

Noah

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Can we be honest, the only reason that "Stafford Chevron" is so desperate to get their version registered is so that they can then make money licensing it to anyone who wants to use it. No interest in the county or what represents it, just money-grubbing.
 

Stafford Chevron

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Can we be honest, the only reason that "Stafford Chevron" is so desperate to get their version registered is so that they can then make money licensing it to anyone who wants to use it. No interest in the county or what represents it, just money-grubbing.

That is completely and simply untrue! In fact it is the opposite!

Flag Institute criteria states any flag on its registry must be free from copyright! Whatever the county flag happens to be will be freely available to be utilised by anyone! There are no royalties whatsoever!!! Just as the UK government don't receive royalties every time a Union Flag is sold at a souvenir shop. It is a freely available symbol for anyone to use! That is the whole point of adopting a county flag, a symbol in which people can display their county pride without having to ask permission of, or pay anyone.

We are just passionate that Staffordshire's identity and heritage is retained and prioritised in a future county flag, Nothing more, nothing less. Our proposal 'The Stafford Chevron' fulfills all these aims!
 
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Withnail

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Should the Stafford Knot be on the Staffordshire flag?
Or (see what i did there?) a chevron gules? The de Staffords haven't ever been the major land holder in Staffordshire.

The knot is pretty cool, though, we should definitely keep that.
 

peggy

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When did the Staffordshire not appear as a symbol for Stafford? I think I have a faint memory of it being discussed when I was in primary school...... But could have got confused with something else?
 

PeterD

ST16 Represent.
the same thing now appears to e on Staffordshire Newsletter, as the knot is represented on the proposed flag, I think that will do, you have to pick your fights and I think the size of a knot on a flag isnt a fight worth having.
 

Hoggie

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The council one looks awful - far too complicated and with the knot tiny. It's not even the symbol the council itself uses: all their letterheads and website have a logo, which is - The Knot! As for the long, yawning cat at the top, what's that to do with Staffs? Whatever the flag is to be, it has to be the Stafford knot, whether you put it on red, blue, green, black or a red chevron. (I like the chevron one.)
 
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