Group hoping to establish county's own flag (From The Oxford Times)
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Group hoping to establish county's own flag
9:30am Monday 29th October 2012 in News
Edward Keene with the flag
THIS is the flag that could become Oxfordshire’s own. A campaign group is hoping to give Oxfordshire its own flag and has drawn up the “St Frideswide cross” as a potential design.
Edward Keene, chairman of the Oxfordshire Association, said: “A number of counties have a flag and increasingly there is an interest in getting them for those places which don’t. Flags promote solidarity and give people something to unite around.”
The flag is named after the patron saint of Oxford. Currently 30 counties around the UK have their own flags, including Wiltshire, Buckinghamshire and Gloucestershire.
But under rules set out by the Flag Institute the proposed standard could only become the flag of the historic county of Oxfordshire, and that excludes the Vale of the White Horse, which joined Oxfordshire in 1974.
There are two ways for a flag to become a county’s official one – either by public vote or by its widespread approval by bodies in the county.
Comments(5)
Dilligaf2010
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10:40am Mon 29 Oct 12
snert
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11:14am Mon 29 Oct 12
http://oxfordshire-a
ssociation.org.uk/in
dex.php?page=county_
flag
Has anyone pointed this out to them?
Flying a flag upside down is a sign of distress. Are they trying to tell us something?
xjohnx
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8:52am Tue 30 Oct 12
How about recognising that we are all one nation. Black, white, Moslem, Jew, Christion, Athiest. From Oxfordshire, Cornwall, Devon, Wales, Northern ireland, Scotland (for the moment) etc.
snert
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9:21am Tue 30 Oct 12
National flags are a symbol of identity and affiliation to a country. There are plenty of flags for religious purposes as well. The Union Flag is a flag for the United Kingdom. Each county in England exists for the purposes of adminstrative, geographical and political demarcation. Some counties have a unique feature or history linked to them or they have a patron saint. Many counties like to have a flag to distinguish them from others, not to focus on differences. It allows a person from one county to show an affiliation to others in that county and share a common ground.
I don't see why Oxfordshire shouldn't celebrate itself with a flag as a symbol of the county. I'm proud to live in Oxfordshire so a flag is a nice thing to have in that case, for example, should a bumper sticker become available, I'd put it on my car to show that I'm from Oxfordshire. People of Cornwall have been famously doing that for decades. If they happen to be away from Cornwall and they see another car with the same sticker, they may feel compelled to introdcue themselves and they'd immediately have a common ground.
Darkforbid says...
10:15am Mon 29 Oct 12