Burslem

	BURSLEM Country : United Kingdom England Incorporated into: 1910 Stoke-on-Trent Status: (< 1910) Borough Loading map... {"minzoom":false,"maxzoom":false,"mappingservice":"leaflet","width":"250px","height":"250px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"zoom":7,"defzoom":14,"layers":["OpenStreetMap"],"image layers":[],"overlays":[],"resizable":false,"fullscreen":false,"scrollwheelzoom":true,"cluster":false,"clustermaxzoom":20,"clusterzoomonclick":true,"clustermaxradius":80,"clusterspiderfy":true,"geojson":"","clicktarget":"","imageLayers":[],"locations":[{"text":"","title":"","link":"","lat":53.04480000000000217141860048286616802215576171875,"lon":-2.196099999999999941024952931911684572696685791015625,"icon":""}],"imageoverlays":null}

Official blazon
English	Arms: Quaterly Or and Gules a Cross party and fretty counterchanged between in the first and fourth quarters a representation of a Portland Vase in the second quarter a Scythe proper and in the third quarter a Fret couped Argent. Crest: On a Wreath of the Colours in front of a Garb Or a Fleur-de-Lys Gules all between two Branches of Laurel proper. Motto: 'READY'.

Origin/meaning

The arms were officially granted on October 8, 1878.

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Image gallery

The arms in 1899
The arms as used on a JaJa postcard +/- 1905
The arms on a Scott postcard

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