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Lancashire (United Kingdom)

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Lancashire County

The emblem of Lancashire is the red rose, in contrast to the white rose of Yorkshire. However, this emblem does not seem to have been used on a flag.  The red rose was originally a symbol of Lancaster, and seems to have been invented by Henry VII.  He however used the combined "Tudor Rose", so the red rose alone would never have been used.
Nathan Lamm, 9 September 2002

There is also a Lancaster Herald whose badge is a red rose royally crowned - see www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/about/6.htm
Joe McMillan, 20 February 2002  


City of Liverpool

It seems that Liverpool has no flag. The arms are a gold cormorant bearing an olive branch in its mouth on an argent field.
Source: Ensign & Jack #8
Jaume Ollé, 24 January 2001

I'm curious who described the bird on the arms as a cormorant? The description included sounds more like a Liverbird, one of the two mythical birds protecting the people of liverpool both in the city and at sea, and included on most flags and insignia associated with the city.
Glenn Hadikin, 2 April 2002

Carr, 1961, says "Liverpool's arms date from 1797, when the heralds, having never heard of Litherland close by, were left to choose between the pool of laver - that is, the seaweed Porphyra - and the pool of the liver, a bird unknown to naturalists; and, failing to find a