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Saturday 8 August 2015

Heraldry all around us

Keep an eye out for heraldry on public buildings - bridges are quite good as are old banks.

Here are two pictures of the coat of arms of the Cordiners of Edinburgh which you can see off the Grassmarket in Edinburgh. Cordiners (from the Spanish city of Cordoba which produced the finest leather in the middle-ages) are an ancient craft or Guild of up-market shoe-makers:



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