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![This picture shows the (rather faded) Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom as used in Scotland. The image can be seen above the River Nile corner shop at 27 Paisley Road West, premises owned in 1913/14 by the Trustees of the Savings Bank of Glasgow. Although the dark wooden panelling of the original bank has long disappeared, one of our members can remember being taken there by her mother, with the counter too high for the wee girl to see over. The building is Category B Listed, and the heraldic device is described as “Ornate heraldic corner piece above bank front at 1st floor, comprising lion and unicorn flanking shield, painted gilded.”
[Image: Paul Burns]
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![In the early medieval period, the ancient province of Flanders in northern Belgium was the economic powerhouse of Europe and the principal outlet for Scotland's major export of wool for the Flemish weaving industry. Bruges, the provincial capital of West Flanders, was the first Scottish Staple port, with a valuable monopoly on importing, storing and trading Scottish goods, and the city still has a historic wharf – the Schottendyk – formerly used by the Scottish merchants.
The importance of Bruges diminished as the harbour silted up, to be replaced ultimately by Rotterdam, but we continue to be reminded of our connections with the city by the crow step or 'corbie' gables seen in buildings across Scotland and by surnames such as Fleming, Lindsay and Douglas, all familiex believed to have Flemish ancestors in their bloodlines.
[Images: Maddie Burns]
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