Lundy Island, England

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• Introduction
• Background
• The Heaven Period
• The Harman Period
  • The first flag
  • The puffin flag
  • The third flag
• After the Harmans: the Landmark Trust
• Signal flags used before 1927
• M.S. Oldenburg flags
• Proposals - not adopted, but proposed in the literature

See also:

• England
• Lundy Island
• Lundy

Introduction

The history of Lundy was extensively researched and documented by Tony and Myrtle Langham, starting in the 1950s. Following Tony Langham's death, Myrtle Ternstrom, as she now is, has continued researching and publishing. The information which I am presenting here is derived almost entirely from their work, and I am particularly grateful to Myrtle Ternstrom for giving me a copy of Tony Langham's article on 'The Flags and Flagpoles of Lundy' (1989 - published in the Lundy Field Society Newsletter No. 20, Jan. 1990) and giving permission for the information it contains to be sent to FOTW. The information here is, strictly speaking, from a secondary source (because Myrtle does not now know exactly where Tony obtained his facts), but the Langhams' research has always been very thorough and there is at least some independent confirmation of what is presented here.

Background

Lundy is a small island 11 miles (18km) off the coast of North Devon in the south-west of England. I