As there is no section on Carribean Heraldry I post here the Arms of the Capital of Barbados Bridgetown. This is displayed on some sort of palque I found on Wikimedia. The Bridge is canting the other symbolism is unknown to me.
Arms of the City of Bridgetown, Barbados
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Re: Arms of the City of Bridgetown, Barbados
On http://www.answers.com/topic/bridgetown I found som more information:
"On 20 September 1960 a grant of Arms was conferred upon the City by the Royal College of Arms in London. The Armorial bearings for the City of Bridgetown were designed by the late Neville Connell, the then director of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society along with H.W. Ince the Honorary Secretary of the Society."
"On 20 September 1960 a grant of Arms was conferred upon the City by the Royal College of Arms in London. The Armorial bearings for the City of Bridgetown were designed by the late Neville Connell, the then director of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society along with H.W. Ince the Honorary Secretary of the Society."
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Re: Arms of the City of Bridgetown, Barbados
Here's a better version:
The motto means (I think): "From the fires of the past we rise to the light".
The motto means (I think): "From the fires of the past we rise to the light".
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Re: Arms of the City of Bridgetown, Barbados
Reading some on the history of Bridgetown the motto probably alludes to the Fire of 1766 when large parts of the City was burnt to the ground.
This Fire is also I guess the reason for the Phoenix in the Crest.
This Fire is also I guess the reason for the Phoenix in the Crest.
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Re: Arms of the City of Bridgetown, Barbados
Barrels like the three in this achievement are usually blazoned blazoned as tuns, and with this name they are commonly used as a pun (cant, in armorial usage) on the suffix -town or -ton in placenames.
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Re: Arms of the City of Bridgetown, Barbados
Mike_Oettle wrote:Barrels like the three in this achievement are usually blazoned blazoned as tuns, and with this name they are commonly used as a pun (cant, in armorial usage) on the suffix -town or -ton in placenames.
Barrels/tuns would of course have been used for the principal products of Bridgetown, then as now sugar, rum and molasses. Whether the three staple products are reflected in there being three barrels is a matter for conjecture.
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Re: Arms of the City of Bridgetown, Barbados
Hence doubly appropriate.
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