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Discussion about the flag
Bristol University

Discussion about the flag

The Bristol 'Evening Post', the local evening newspaper, last night (Saturday 22 September 2007) carried a reader's letter headlined 'Help us to fly flag for the city wherever we are'. It's available on the newspaper's website. I find it interesting that there is this increasing awareness of the interest in flying a local/county/regional flag which seems to be spreading from the adjacent English areas which already have flags - Cornwall in the south-west and Northumbria in the north-east. The particular suggestion here - a "flag displaying the city crest" - is problematic. A banner of arms exists and is flown by the City Council in two places. Whether that could or should be made more widely available is debateable.
Andr� Coutanche, 23 September 2007

Bristol University

Bristol University uses a banner of arms as seen at http://www.flickr.com/photos/fintan/22638043/ (Flickr photo by "Fintan", uploaded 30 Jun 2005), and http://www.flickr.com/photos/lukecanvin/194169883/ (Flickr photo by "lukecanvin", uploaded 20 Jul 2006).

The university page on the arms is at http://www.bristol.ac.uk/visualidentity/arms.html and the logo (which is heraldic in character) is at http://www.bristol.ac.uk/visualidentity/logo.html.
Jan Mertens, 7 December 2008

I have also seen a flag based on the logo, but I have seen neither flag very often. Bristol is not a very vexilliferous university - the fact that it has no campus with an entrance and flag-pole may have something to do with it.
Andr� Coutanche, 8 December 2008