Leeds motto

String o' beads · Post by **String o' beads** » Mon 11 Jan, 2010 11:41 pm

I thought it had been Pro Rege et Lege since the coat of arms was established but look at this:http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Woodhouse-Roundha ... c55152dLet Leeds Flourish?

dogduke · Post by **dogduke** » Tue 12 Jan, 2010 12:26 am

."LET LEEDS FLOURISH"I don't think this was by any means official,just the localshop owner beefing up his advertising.Could be a good motto to take the city forward out of this credit crunch,support local businesses/traders

Doubledave · Post by **Doubledave** » Tue 12 Jan, 2010 3:48 pm

How about;"If it isn't broke, keep fixing it until it is"(Leeds City Council -1987)

Post by **chameleon** » Tue 12 Jan, 2010 4:07 pm

Doubledave wrote: How about;"If it isn't broke, keep fixing it until it is"(Leeds City Council -1987) Very close to the sign-off of a member here.

Arry Awk · Post by **Arry Awk** » Tue 12 Jan, 2010 4:48 pm

Geordie-exile wrote: I thought it had been Pro Rege et Lege since the coat of arms was established but look at this:http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Woodhouse-Roundha ... c55152dLet Leeds Flourish? By 'Eck! Haven't post cards gone up these days?Just a thought. How come The YEP and TV news on both channels,have started calling Woodhouse Moor, 'HYDE PARK?'The bit at Hyde Park Corner maybe, but lots of 'Woodus' Mooris in Burley, and Woodhouse of course.The Meddlin' Media strikes again! GRRRR!

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Tue 12 Jan, 2010 4:59 pm

Because they're ignorant ships who should be whipped all the way to Otley and back.Mind you an episode of the X Files (popular entertainment on the telly box a while back) referred to a Royal Navy battleship leaving 'the port of Leeds'.I can only surmise that they had a small map and the 's' of leeds was close to Hull.

Arry Awk · Post by **Arry Awk** » Tue 12 Jan, 2010 5:12 pm

Cardiarms wrote: Because they're ignorant ships who should be whipped all the way to Otley and back.Mind you an episode of the X Files (popular entertainment on the telly box a while back) referred to a Royal Navy battleship leaving 'the port of Leeds'.I can only surmise that they had a small map and the 's' of leeds was close to Hull. Mebbe it was a 'Pocket-battleship' and it was able to get down the Navvy to Selby!! (Watch out for the Locks!!! What locks?)

Dalehelms · Post by **Dalehelms** » Tue 12 Jan, 2010 5:34 pm

Glasgow's city motto is "Let Glasgow Flourish", that being the abbreviated form. The full motto is "Let Glasgow Flourish Through The Preaching Of Thy Word and Praising Thy Name". Maybe the folks making the postcard had been doing Glasgow before Leeds and confused the motto!! As an old Glaswegian who has lived in Leeds since the late sixties, I rather like the idea of both places having the same motto.

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Tue 12 Jan, 2010 6:38 pm

Both are better than "Leeds Live it Love It" (or however it goes)which we no doubt paid some marketing "expert" in red spectacles a kings ransom to come up with.And if I remember correctly, it is very similar to the advertising slogan used by the town where our civic head of marketing had just come from.....It should have just been "Love Leeds" which works on so many levels.

Leeds-lad · Post by **Leeds-lad** » Tue 12 Jan, 2010 11:07 pm

Geordie-exile wrote: I thought it had been Pro Rege et Lege since the coat of arms was established but look at this:http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Woodhouse-Roundha ... c55152dLet Leeds Flourish? Let Leeds Flounder seems more apt.