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image located by Valentin Poposki, 10 October 2021
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Here is the full story of the recently adopted flag for North Tuddenham in
Norfolk County, England
https://www.derehamtimes.co.uk/news/esme-okan-designs-north-tuddenham-flag-8250724
It (the flag) wraps up a village's landmarks into a rectangular piece of
canvass. And now a flag, designed by eight-year-old Esme Okan, is to fly high
over North Tuddenham. Esme and several other children from the village, near
Dereham, came up with flag designs for a contest which was held by the parish
council and the North Tuddenham Community Organisation.
Jonathan
Stapleton, chairman of the council and the organisation, said: "We've organised
all kinds of activities during the lockdown to give children something to do. We
had a pumpkin hunt, quizzes, and the flag design competition was part of that. "Esme's
design was bright and colourful and it met the brief, which was to represent the
interesting things about the village. We thought for an eight-year-old to do
that was outstanding." A volunteer from the village sewed Esme's design into
full-sized flag, and the youngster, who was "so excited" that she had won the
contest, unveiled it at a village barbecue hosted by The Lodge pub and
restaurant. Esme's flag shows the River Tud, The Lodge and the church. The
design also features an American B24 bomber which crashed in the village in
1944, and a memorial for the eight airmen who lost their lives. Completing the
design is a stripe of bright red at the top and a series of six stars. Mr
Stapleton said: "She picked out the main points of the village quite nicely."
The flag is going to be flown from a pole which is soon to be put up at the
village hall in The Street. Mr Stapleton said: "It will be in full view of
everyone going past on that road. We're hoping one day we might be able to fly
it from the church tower, but at the moment we can't."
The tower at the
village church, All Saints, is currently under scaffolding for urgent repairs.
"The tower is pretty much falling down," Mr Stapleton said. "We've managed to
raise a lot of money to stabilise the tower and make it safe, and that work is
currently going on." Esme was given a small cash prize for her winning design.
Valentin Poposki, 10 October 2021