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Feb 14, 2021 · Derby's symbol has been the ram for as long as anyone can remember, but like most traditions most us aren't sure where it really comes from. Adorning the shirts of Derby County's footballers...
For many years now the symbol of Derby has been a ram. Our football team’s nickname is known worldwide as ‘The Rams’ and if you take a walk through the city centre, you will see statues of a ram. But where does Derby’s connection with a ram start and what are the earliest connections? To answer this, we must jump back to 1867.
Mar 10, 2023 · Well back in the 60s, revered Leicester-born sculptor Wilfred Edgar Dudeney (1911-1996) was tasked to come up with a figurine that would symbolise Derby transitioning from old to modern. And...
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Sep 15, 2024 · It is claimed that in 1796 the first US president, George Washington, sang The Derby Ram to a friend's children. No one knows where, or why, the song originated.
The tradition could have originated as the Anglo Saxon pagan midwinter ram-ritual (most prevalent in the Midlands and South Yorkshire), which involved a singing and dancing procession of men accompanying a figure dressed as a sacred animal (often a goat or a ram) which represented a life-giving, seed-proliferating god.
The arms show a Tudor rose with three stags' heads above. The rose was taken from the centuries old badge, and the stags' heads from the Cavendish arms by permission of the Duke of Devonshire. The supporters, a stag and a ram, have special significance for Derbyshire.
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Jul 27, 2017 · In 1969 the Friar Gate Conservation Area was created – Derby’s first such designation – a reflection of the neighbourhood’s impressive array of historic architecture, most notably its outstanding collection of Georgian and later town houses.
