Flag

I have an interest in flags, or to give it its proper name, vexillology. So when I read a few weeks ago that a new flag had been created for Denny & Dunipace and was now on display at Denny Cross I made a mental note to pop along and see it sometime. Monday was that day!

A few years ago, a competition was launched to design a flag for the town and the winning entry was 'unfurled' at the Denny & Dunipace Gala Day two years ago today. It was flown for the first time a few weeks later.

There then followed a petition for the flag to fly from a flagpole in a prominent position in the town. However that process took two years to achieve but, finally, the Denny & Dunipace town flag was flown from a new flagpole at Denny Cross earlier this month. In my photo, the flag takes pride of place beside the town's other major landmark, the steeple of Denny Old Parish Church.

According to the Flag Institute website:
"The flag shows River Carron, with Dunipace in north bank and Denny in south. The colours reflect those of the former civic arms with the white particularly marking the important treaties signed in this place. The River Carron, that separates and unites Denny & Dunipace, is represented by the wavy  lines.
The castle symbolises the name of the River Carron as possibly originating from ‘Caer Avon’ meaning ‘River of Forts’, the two towers recalling the settlements of Denny & Dunipace. The eleven blue pointed star represents the eleven mills in the mid eighteenth century."