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Lincolnshire (England)

image by André Coutanche, 24 October 2005

Lincolnshire flag
Lincoln
- University of Lincoln
- Lincoln District Scout Band
Boston Borough Council
Horncastle
Sleaford Borough Council

Lincolnshire flag

A new flag for Lincolnshire was unveiled at five separate ceremonies across the county. The flag was chosen in a vote by organised by BBC Radio Lincolnshire along with Lincolnshire Life Magazine. The winning entry was selected from a shortlist of six designs and attracted thousands of votes. It features a red cross with a fleur de lis in the centre on a blue and green background. A gold border represents the crops grown in the county. The blue on the flag represents the sea and sky of Lincolnshire and the green symbolises the fields, while the fleur de lys represents the City of Lincoln.

The winning design was unveiled at five locations: the Observatory Tower at Lincoln Castle, South Kesteven District Council's offices in Grantham, Springfields Shopping Centre in Spalding, Gainsborough Old Hall, the Assembly Rooms in Boston.
Ken Westmoreland, 30 October 2005

The website of Newton Newton Flags shows a flag for Lincolnshire County Council as a green (or blue?) sheet bearing the armorial bearings of the County Council
on a white disc. See: www.civicheraldry.co.uk for details of the badge. This is may be a predecessor to the new flag above.
Laurence Jones, 10 October 2005

Boston Borough Council

The website of Newton Newton Flags shows a flag for Boston Borough Council as a red flag bearing the arms of the Borough council. See http://www.civicheraldry.co.uk/lincs.html for details.
Laurence Jones, 10 October 2005

Lincoln

image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 16 October 2005

The cross of Saint George (a symmetrical red cross constructed by horizontally and vertically bisecting a white ground) is familiar enough. The Lincoln City flag starts from this point. Adorning this is a central Fleur-de-lys (lily) in yellow or gold. The use of the lily harks back to a time when Lincoln was primarily Catholic and the great Cathedral of Lincoln was Catholic (it is now Church of England). The lily symbolizes the Virgin Mary. The flag itself, is rarely seen anywhere else apart from flying on the mast above the Mayor's Chambers in the City. Lincoln City council use a "coat of Arms" - a shield-shaped version of the City flag as their
logo.

Allister Garrod, 6 February 2003

University of Lincoln

located by Jan Mertens, 5 July 2008

The flag is seen in use at http://www.ulcareers.co.uk/ in front of the cathedral. The university web page notes the elements are placed in an invisible square and the head is coloured as Pantone 398 with black lettering.

From http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/identity/why.htm:
[The] logo sets out to capture the spirit of the new university. It is Minerva, Roman goddess of wisdom and knowledge. There are three reasons why we have chosen this symbol. The first is that education is about people. As a new university, our spirit is almost wholly embodied in our staff, our students and the community we serve. Most other places of learning express themselves with lions, swords, books, winged birds: the encrustation of long dead noble families. Minerva is symbolic of a powerful, independent and shrewd individual. The second is the link with the Romans who settled in Lincoln in the1st Century AD. They built their capital for eastern England at Lindon ,'the place by the pool', and renamed it Lindum Colonia. The Romans always revered the inventive and resourceful Minerva whose name is thought to derive from 'mens', the word for mind. The third is Minerva's role as a teacher. In Homer's Odyssey - where she appears as Athena, her Greek name - she disguises herself as a man called Mentor and advises Odysseus' son, Telemachus. Mentor has entered our language as the word for a wise and sympathetic guide.
Jan Mertens, 5 July 2008

Lincoln District Scout Band

The Lincoln District Scout Band is one of the 120 Scout Bands in the UK. It was established just over 20 yrs ago, and is the only Scout Band in the County of Lincolnshire. We have fun playing good music and the Scouts enjoy performing at Parades, carnivals, shows etc.

The flag ground is scarlet (the colour of our Band Neckerchiefs) with our familiar (to those who know us) traditional crossed drumsticks, overlaid with the image of an infantry bugle (The band began as a drum & bugle corps, although we play bugles less often today, we concentrate on more melodic music in full harmony). The logo is flanked by the Scout Arrowhead and the Guide Trefoil (as we accept Guides into the band too).
Allister Garrod, Bandmaster, 24 July 2002

Horncastle

"Horncastle News" announced on 15 October 2008:

"Horncastle Town Council would like the town to have its own flag and will be asking the town's young people to come up with some exciting designs. Over the next few weeks the council will be contacting all Horncastle schools and inviting pupils to take part in a competition to find the best design for the flag. The competition will be for three age groups with prizes for the best three designs from each age group. The top four designs from each group chosen by Horncastle Town Council will be displayed in the library during December. This will give the public a chance to choose their favourite design and determine the overall winner. Entry forms with more details and design parameters will be distributed later this month."
http://www.horncastlenews.co.uk/news/Design-a-flag-for-town.4581133.jp

More on the town on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horncastle,_Lincolnshire
Ivan Sache, 14 October 2008

Sleaford Borough Council

The website of Newton Newton Flags shows a flag for Boston Borough Council as a green flag bearing the arms of the town as detailed at: http://www.civicheraldry.co.uk/lincs.html#sleaford tc for details.
Laurence Jones, 10 October 2005