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Contents 1 Regional Flags 2 Proposal to merge into the main Union Jack article 3 Edits of 22:54-55, 15 February 2006 4 dates of flags 5 Cross of St. George in Scotland 6 A regional flag 7 British Flag? 8 Flag of the East India Company 9 Ensign of the Commissioners of the Northern Lights 10 Broken images 11 Saint Patrick's Flag in series?

[edit] Regional Flags

Would it be a good idea to divide these between 'historical' and modern inventions? Its just the confusion that things like the BBC created flag of devon cause when put next to some of the rather interesting old flags. (BM) 86.136.230.235

[edit] Proposal to merge into the main Union Jack article

The proposal to merge this article into Union Jack is located here: Talk:Union Jack#Merge "List of British flags" into "Union Jack".--Mais oui! 20:10, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Edits of 22:54-55, 15 February 2006

Anyone confused with the edit summary should know that the edit of 22:54 was not a self reversion as it says in the log; I mistook this page for another. Greentubing 09:57, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] dates of flags

does c900 mean the 9th centuary or the 900s

- it means "around the year 900" Astrotrain 08:55, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cross of St. George in Scotland

Should the Cross of St. George (English Flag) be freely flown from any building in Scotland? For the purposes of this discussion it will be assumed that no other flag will be flown with it and the building in question is a public house and the flag shares the wall it is mounted on (without a flag pole) with advertisements for makes of beer.

I think it would be an insult to every Scotsman/woman as well as an insult to the people of England.

Why should it not be? IKEA in Glasgow flies the Sweddish flag for example. And the Scottish National Party in Stornoway flew the English flag on St George's Day. Astrotrain 11:36, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

I refuse to believe that Stornaway flew the St. Georges Cross on it's own without the Union Jack or Saltire being present with it. It is also true to say that St. Georges Day is one of Twenty Three days in the year when it is allowed to fly the Flag of St. George from Government buildings.

• See [1] for pictures, the Saltire does fly alongside though. The Union Flag flies on government buildings on St Georges Day, and the English flag- and only in England. See Flag of the United Kingdom for all flag days. Astrotrain 10:21, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

As a Briton living in England (I consider myself British first and foremost) I would not be at all bothered to see a Scottish saltire flying from any building in England. As for the flying of the cross of St. George being an "insult" to the Scots, the overly-sensitive attitude of some Scots towards the flying of English flags in Scotland often appears petty.

There is no legal or traditional impediment against flying a British flag (that is to say a flag from or of the island of Britain) anywhere else in Great Britain. Indeed, there is a hotel on Holy Island in Northumbria that flies the flag of Yorkshire!

[edit] A regional flag

It's totally unofficial but I've just uploaded the flag of Buckinghamshire in .png format to use in my own signature. It's not particularly well produced (there's a line down the middle for example) but if anyone feels the need and uploads a better version in .svg format please let me know. -- Francs2000 16:47, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] British Flag?

Is there a flag for Britain any more?

[edit] Flag of the East India Company

==Towards the bottom of the page, the flag of the East India Company is erroneously shown with a St. George's cross in the canton. Since 1707, the Union Flag has been in the canton of this flag.

[edit] Ensign of the Commissioners of the Northern Lights

Is that the correct title? Their website refers to The Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses. --jmb 09:20, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Broken images

Why do so many of these images show up as broken red links? --Masamage 20:05, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Saint Patrick's Flag in series?

Template:UKFlags makes up a series of articles with this as the main topic. Should Saint Patrick's Flag be added to that series? --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 03:12, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Please continue this discussion at Talk:Saint Patrick's Flag