Schools Class' Locomotive Headboard and Number Plaque
- GB 2014 WS-03-PIC-002/74
- Item
- 1930s
Headboard Plaque: 115cm wide; Number Plaque: 55cm wide
Schools Class' Locomotive Headboard and Number Plaque
Headboard Plaque: 115cm wide; Number Plaque: 55cm wide
One Black Jack is emobssed with a stylised grape cluster.
Dyed, painted silk, on a hessian backing. On the left the arms of the Commonwealth: the crosses of St. George and St. Andrew and the Irish harp and in escutcheon a lion rampant guardant for Cromwell. On the right are the quarterings of his wife. Inscribed verso with: 'this ensign was snatched from the bier of the tyrant Oliver Cromwell, when his waxen effigy, adorned with royal state, was being magnificently displayed in the Church of St. Peter, Westminster'.
Banner bearing the School Motto and Coat of Arms
Embroidered banner with two school mottos, arms of Westminster School, Trinity College Cambridge, Christ Church Oxford and Dr Busby.