Flag picker pleased at reaction
Friday 16th April 2010, 2:29PM BST.
Bailiff Sir Geoffrey Rowland, David Le Conte, Martin Le Boutillier and Nigel Jee at the Bailiff’s Chambers yesterday with Guernsey’s flag, which is 25 years old this year. (Picture by Peter Frankland, 0952144)
ONE of the committee members who helped choose the design for the Guernsey flag was delighted at how quickly it was accepted by islanders.
The flag was first flown on Liberation Day 25 years ago.
It had been decided that one was required because the island’s standard was often confused with England’s, both using the St George’s Cross.
Nigel Jee was on the Guernsey Flag Investigation Committee and helped sift through more than 70 designs that were submitted.
‘We decided it had to be a simple style, partly because of the cost of making it and if it’s at the top of a flagpole it’s very difficult to see the detail,’ he said at a briefing at the Bailiff’s Chambers yesterday.
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I thoght we had a flag which was green with lions on it or am I imagining this
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John
Shouldn’t your post be in the Mephedrone section?
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We had an offical flag,http://www.google.com/gwt/x?client=ms-sonyericsson&source=m&u=http%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Flag_of_Guernsey.svg&wsi=7ec8962bf4ed9b77&ei=QsPIS-zJNoLc1Qalq5GeCQ&wsc=eb we also had several un-offical flags.
25 years ago the States wanted to show our deference to England and our desire to be considred as a county.
I have never liked this flag, we have never been part of England.
Put Williams cross in the middle of the Union flag, I could just about live with that.
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John, I think that`s the crest.
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As an expat living in South Australia I think the
flag is an excellent design. As a Guernseyman and a new Australian I proudly have stick on flags of Guernsey and Australia on my light aircraft’s tail and at our Club Airfield we have several flag poles where I and other new Australians proudly fly their country of origin flags making a very colourful display of unity. Guess whose flag creates the most interest.
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I view the current flag as far more appropriate than the old one. There is absolutely no reason to have the Union flag included in our flag as we are aligned to the English Crown, not to the UK.
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TL – I’m afraid your reasoning doesn’t make sense. The Crown is the UK crown, not just the English crown. Elizabeth II is Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland – not just England.
Still, that aside I do like our flag though! :-)
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Paul Le Page – we chose to be aligned to the English Crown a full 500 years before the creation of the UK. I’ve not read the Act of Union so I’m not sure if it just treats the various crowns as united but each separately identifiable, or if it purports to cancel the earlier crowns and replace them with a single UK one. I would expect that it was the former, in which case our choice to align ourselves with the English Crown still stands.
But as you say, the real question is whether we like our flag, and I certainly do.
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I don’t like our flag as for me the Guernsey colours are green and white, red is for that place across the water….
I think they should have made the red cross green and put the three lions on a shield in the middle.
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slep if you look on todays 22/04/10 GP you will see a picture of the flag I remember being flown at the Muratti’s when I was a boy.
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Does anyone know where Mr Bourgaize had his flag made as I would like one!
GEP can you tell us?
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Aren’t Mr B’s lions facing the wrong way ?
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