It’s amazing how many times a story is so often repeated that it becomes unquestioned fact. The three stripes on City’s badge is a good example of that. They represent Manchester’s three rivers, right? Except that every work on heraldry I’ve consulted lists them as “bendlets”, representing the metal strips that strengthened wooden shields in the Middle Ages. According to Harold Ellis Tomlinson’s
Why Was The Club Created?
Why Was The Club Created?
Why Was The Club Created?
It’s amazing how many times a story is so often repeated that it becomes unquestioned fact. The three stripes on City’s badge is a good example of that. They represent Manchester’s three rivers, right? Except that every work on heraldry I’ve consulted lists them as “bendlets”, representing the metal strips that strengthened wooden shields in the Middle Ages. According to Harold Ellis Tomlinson’s