Thirty-nine flags line the lamp posts of Saxton Road and its side courts – mostly Union Jacks, with a few St George’s Crosses. Only one lamp post has been missed.
Today many of them are wet, clinging to their posts. I could wait for better weather to capture them as I saw them yesterday, when they made a fine display.
There are also the usual flag displays in back gardens, proudly shown along the road. So there are a lot more than thirty nine.
Whats the event?
Royal Birthday?
A Day of National Significance?
I can’t think of anything particularly special.
How about proud to be English and British, Tim, or isn’t that allowed?
I think it is a good thing that people want to recapture our British identity. For too long it has been implied that to be English or British was something not to be proud of. How can we expect people to have confidence in British goods and service if our British identity has been suppressed.
To a lot of people the English flag represents skin heads, the BNP, football hooligans and the like. It’s also been a historic symbol of repression.
It’s unclear if the current craze of flag raising (someone’s making money from it) is patriotism or disguised racism but it’s clear that is causing division rather than uniting the public