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Heraldry is often overlooked when choosing a design for a pub sign. Like the double-sider, heraldic pub signs are a dying breed. A coat of arms is often thought of as old fashioned, but the heraldic inn sign is enjoying a comeback for eyebright
's customers who are eager to cash in on the growing numbers of drinkers now rejecting the new corporate pubs for a more traditional pub. The coat of arms - as on the eyebright
pub sign to the right - does not have to be authentic. Here the design was taken from a black and white logo on the bar staff's T-shirts which measured three inches square, and was designed by a customer. However,
The Nevill in Hove, East Sussex, whose inn sign eyebright
replaced recently, depicts cows with yokes and chains on the shield. Upon further investigation, the coat of arms was found to be authentic, and the animals were included on the image hundreds of years ago when the nobleman in question used the power of his huge herd to move his windmill in one piece to a more windy hill on the South Downs! That tale must keep many punters occupied, and only came to light through investigation into the coat of arms' origins.
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The Ham in Worthing, West Sussex used a made-up coat of arms to great effect on their bar staff T-shirts, and asked eyebright
to colourise it and enlarge it from three inches square to their new three foot by four foot pub sign.Acrylics, exterior gloss paint and vinyl lettering on 3ft x 4ft plywood |
