Union Flag 400 years old

[Brighton Breezy]

TODAY.

Insert images of union flag / cross here:

 

[Cian]

The original might be, the current one isn't.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...on_Jack.png/537px-Flags_of_the_Union_Jack.png heres both the 400 year old one and the current one along with some other stuff

 

[Dandyman]

The original might be, the current one isn't.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...on_Jack.png/537px-Flags_of_the_Union_Jack.png heres both the 400 year old one and the current one along with some other stuff

What he said. The United Kingdom has three stages - the coronation of James V1/James 1, the union of England & Scotland, and the union of Ireland and Great Britain. All of these events have roughly a hundred years between them, hence the current flag dating only from 1801.

 

[Jam The Man]

Well said about the Union FLAG... funny how so many people incorrectly call it the Union JACK

 

[The Large One]

Well said about the Union FLAG... funny how so many people incorrectly call it the Union JACK

Isn't that the nautical equivalent?

 

[Brighton Breezy]

The Jack comes from a small version being put on the front of naval vessles when they went to sea.

Although another idea is that it was worn on the jackets of soldiers or something like that...

 

[Hampden Park]

it is only the Union Jack when it is flying from the Jack Staff at the pointy end of a grey war canoe

 

[Lord Bracknell]

I quite like the new version, designed for a modern, multicultural nation:-

And the early designs for the 1606 version are worth looking at:-

 

[Tom Bombadil]

Well said about the Union FLAG... funny how so many people incorrectly call it the Union JACK

If the majority of people call it the Union Jack it's the Union Jack. It's only a sad minority of pedants who actually care.

Anyway it'll be redundant soon, replaced by the glorious flag of the EU.

 

[Hampden Park]

If the majority of people call it the Union Jack it's the Union Jack. It's only a sad minority of pedants who actually care.

makes me sad then eh?

 

[Tom Bombadil]

If the majority of people call it the Union Jack it's the Union Jack. It's only a sad minority of pedants who actually care.

makes me sad then eh?

Of course it does Little Hampton, but then we knew that already.

 

[Jam The Man]

If the majority of people call it the Union Jack it's the Union Jack. It's only a sad minority of pedants who actually care.

Anyway it'll be redundant soon, replaced by the glorious flag of the EU.

What... like people who write 'would of' instead of 'would've or would have'

 

[Jam The Man]

it is only the Union Jack when it is flying from the Jack Staff at the pointy end of a grey war canoe

Well said...

 

[Lord Bracknell]

There is still one current flag that uses the 1606 version of the Union Flag.

It's the flag of the Northern Lights Commissioners, who are responsible for marine navigation aids around the coastal areas of Scotland and the Isle of Man.

 

[Tom Bombadil]

What... like people who write 'would of' instead of 'would've or would have'

?

 

[Hampden Park]

Of course it does Little Hampton, but then we knew that already.

careful vladipisstake, you were almost funny

 

[Franks Wild Years]

There is still one current flag that uses the 1606 version of the Union Flag.

It's the flag of the Northern Lights Commissioners, who are responsible for marine navigation aids around the coastal areas of Scotland and the Isle of Man.

I get the flag bit but whats with the melting penis on the right of it.

I like your post with possible union jack/ flag designs. We tend to think of so many things as just 'being' rather than something that someone has thought about and designed. Makes it all much
more human.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

 

[Lord Bracknell]

I like your post with possible union jack/ flag designs. We tend to think of so many things as just 'being' rather than something that someone has thought about and designed. Makes it all much
more human.

Older members of NSC will no doubt remember the thread started in 2001 (by Downloaded Penguin, I think) that said something along the lines of "OK. We've raised the money for a giant flag. What should the design be?"

 

[Franks Wild Years]

Older members of NSC will no doubt remember the thread started in 2001 (by Downloaded Penguin, I think) that said something along the lines of "OK. We've raised the money for a giant flag. What should the design be?"

Exactly, History in the making (and designing)