Oxo were going to release a commemorative cube in red white and blue for Euro 2004 but it turned out to be a laughing stock that fell apart in the box.
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Oxo were going to release a commemorative cube in red white and blue for Euro 2004 but it turned out to be a laughing stock that fell apart in the box.
Don't throw away all those England flags - just paint out the red cross....
Adam
Interesting... since when did the England colours ever contain blue?
:-)
db.
Since last Thursday....
Adam
"Adam Warr" wrote
Compounded yesterday by our cricketers who play in blue.
John.
Home strip is white shirt with red trim and Navy Blue shorts. Ok
That was a joke. You weren't meant to analyse it too seriously :-) It's had blue for as long as the BBC has confused "United Kingdom"/"Great Britain" with "England".
Now who's taking life too seriously????
Since the thirties and maybe before.
Explain? The English flag is a red cross on a white background, coincidentally the same as the DVLA warning symbol (oops - sorry!) The Union Flag has blue in it, but that well predates the 30s. 1630s? 1730s? Hmm... when did the Union Flag first appear?
"Paul Boyd" wrote
Before the Union was complete. I'm not quite sure of the sequence, but I think it originally amalgamated the English and Welsh flags with the cross of St Andrew being added later. Sorry I can't quote dates.
John.
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I think it was 1812. Beowulf
"Beowulf" wrote
Good name for an overture?
John.
I think the Union Flag originally comprised the English and Scottish flags, the (Northern) Irish flag being added later (after the 1801 Act of Union). For some strange reason, Wales never got a look-in; not sure if this is due to its status of Principality rather than Kingdom.
David E. Belcher
"David E. Belcher" wrote
Knew it was *something* like that, sorry if I got it wrong.
John.
Are you making one?
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Well thinking about it adding a large red dragon would have messed a simple flag up somewhat, then of course there are the Legs of Man and the three channel island flags.... be happy they stopped when they did, it was probably not a committee that made the decision otherwise we'd have a psychadelic flag...... Beowulf
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I don't think that had anything to do with it. At the time Wales had long been governed by England and this is why the royal coat-of-arms twice shows the three lions along with the symbols of Scotland (red lion rampant) and Ireland (harp). Welsh nationalism and the Welsh flag are much more recent arrivals as too is the Cornish flag (black with a white cross).
Pat
There is a little old lady who has some details on her website, and I reckon she ought to have a rough idea:
The Welsh dragon does not appear on the Union Flag. This is because when the first Union Flag was created in 1606, the Principality of Wales by that time was already united with England and was no longer a separate principality.
The Isle of Man and Channel Islands aren't part of the Union, so there would be no need to include them on the Union Flag.
In parts of East Central Ontario that were settled by United Empire Loyalists fleeing the United States in the 1780s and 1790s, they still make a point of flying the old flag without the St. Patrick's cross.
The Flag of St Piran adopted by Cornish Tin miners * and now regarded as the The Cornish flag is a Cross similar to the red cross of the St. George Cross.
St Patrick's and St Andrew's Flags are saltires.(diagonal cross).
A few flags have been used by more than one nation. St Andrew's associated with Scotland by most in Britain was the Russian Naval ensign up to the 1917 revolution.
*The black is supposed to represent ashes from smelting and white the colour of the metal, or viens of Ore amongst black rock depending what folk lore version you want to believe. Personally I think it is a white window frame in a holiday cottage with a typical cornish summer day outside.G.Harman
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