With less than 3 weeks until the Diamond Jubilee Bank Holiday weekend work is at a frantic pace to get poles and flags installed for clients up and down the land. However when we were approached by our client Sosna Witts workplace design (http://www.sosnawitts.com/) to mount a union flag to one of the most famous [...]
Iconic British flag for Iconic British Brand
May 17th, 2012Bridport honours US soldiers with special flag
May 17th, 2012The Dorset town of Bridport seems to have a thing about flags. We recently reported that they will be adorning the town with flags because they’re very proud of the fact that they’ve been chosen as part of the relay route for the Olympic torch on 12 July. Now they’ve gone one better. They have [...]
Bolton police cross about St George’s claim
May 17th, 2012It’s official – police in Bolton have not ordered pub owners to remove St George’s Cross flags, even though it’s been alleged that they have told pub landlords to take the flags down because they were offensive. Senior officer, Phil Davies, who is a superintendent with the force, said, “At no point did Greater Manchester [...]
Pickles says that EU should grow up
May 15th, 2012Brussels will never make the right decisions, according to some people. The latest example of their bureaucratic shenanigans is the insistence that the EU flag should be flown permanently outside any organisation that manages development funding from Brussels. That includes the Whitehall office of Eric Pickles, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government. [...]
Count down to the Royal British Legion Annual Conference
May 15th, 2012With less than a week to go Porters are putting the finishing touches to their display for the Royal British Legion Annual Conference, to be held at the Spa Complex Scarborough on the 19th & 20th May.Porters Count down to the RBL Conference As one of the oldest Military charities the Royal British Legion does [...]
Vexillologists save the day for Newfoundland
May 14th, 2012Vexillology. It sounds like one of those words that is the correct answer to an obscure question from a highbrow quiz show on BBC2. But this is what we all do at Flagmakers. It’s defined as ‘the study and collection of information about flags’. And we had to use all our skills in that department [...]
Flagmakers adds finishing touches to Gloriana
May 14th, 2012It’s no secret that the Queen will be sailing along the Thames as part of her Jubilee celebrations – and Flagmakers is proud to have played a small part in the ceremony. Gloriana is the first royal barge to have been built in a hundred years and last month the Queen and the Duke of [...]
Praise heaped upon praise for ‘The Flaggers’
May 10th, 2012You may recall our blog the other day about supplying last minute bunting for the Easter wedding of the daughter of one of our customers, who was glowing with praise over our efforts. Well, we received another email from him after the event, which was equally enthusiastic. It’s such a personal message (to our sales [...]
Historic banner found down-under
April 18th, 2012George Tutill, one of our sister companies, is proud of its heritage and we’re always delighted when they unearth fascinating examples of their art from days of old. The latest discovery is a ceremonial banner, dating from pre-1900, that is now on prominent display in a museum in New South Wales in Australia. The banner [...]
Salisbury wants to be safer at night
April 18th, 2012There are a lot of worried people in Salisbury. Wiltshire County and Salisbury City Councils, the Police, Salisbury City Centre Management, PubWatch, Visit Wiltshire, Salisbury City Football Club, as well as private businesses, shops, restaurants, pubs and clubs, are all concerned about the safety of you and me when we go there for a night [...]
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