Showing posts with label flag day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flag day. Show all posts

Thursday, 28 January 2010

RNLI BADGE & FLAG DAY

It's starting to show it's age now, but this is an original RNLI badge dating back to the 60's. The RNLI used to have "Flag Days" in the city centre when I was a schoolboy, and for a small donation you got a flag - ie a paper square on a pin that you stuck into your lapel. Or if you wanted to splash out a tanner, you were given this badge. Sometime later they replaced the flags with stickers, but they never changed the name to "Sticker Day"!
I know they still have Flag Days today, but I'm obviously just referring to the old style ones.
The Dundee donations were for the Broughty Ferry Lifeboat.
Another one I can recall is, The Red Cross, who were also regulars in the 60's & 70's.