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Banner, Persevere Port of Leith
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Item no
27469
Title
Banner, Port of Leith
Description
Brown cotton twill weave banner with painted
design on one side. Motto scroll, PERSEVERE PORT OF LEITH. Coat of Arms of Leith, Virgin Mary in a blue dress with the Infant Jesus in her arms, seated on a two masted galley with furled sails.
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133 x 100cm
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Banner
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The People's Story
Accession number
HH3832/2/74
The Port of Leith was Edinburgh's gateway to the sea and trade. The Burgh of Leith was fiercely independent of Edinburgh, but became amalgamated, against popular opinion, in 1921.
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