Flying the flag
What a boost the Queen’s four day platinum jubilee celebrations has given the souvenir manufacturers. A bonanza, a gold rush, raking in multi millions.
The union flags for sale range from mini, hand wavers, at 50p, to monster 8ft/5ft ones you can buy for less than £20.
The Union flag dates back to 1606 when, as the ‘British flag’, it was ordered to be flown from all the ships in the navy; later it became the navy’s Union Jack, with Union flag now the public version.
The oldest flag making company in the world is said to be Annin in New Jersey USA that produced the first for the civil Civil War in the 1860s war in and is still flourishing - ‘flying high today, selling our Union flag
The world’s biggest union flag, made from unwanted clothes, was made ten years ago by Marks and Spencer in a field.
The world’s largest existing one does not fly; it is painted on huge hangar doors Ventnor in the Isle of Wight, produced to mark the Queen’s silver jubilee in 1937.
This historic weekend has seen a veritable tidal wave of flags and flag waving.
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