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Incorporated into : 1912 [[Glasgow]]
Incorporated into : 1912 [[Glasgow]]


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[[File:partick.jpg|center|350 px|Arms (crest) of Partick]]


====Official blazon====
===Official blazon===
Argent, on land in base the hull of a ship on the stocks Proper; on a chief Azure, two mullets pierced of the field.
Quarterly. First and fourth, or, a lymphad or galley with oars in action sable, flags flying gules; second, gules, a double towered castle argent; third, gules , a bishop's precious mitre proper; on a chief sable a garb between two millstones or.


Above the Shield is placed a suitable Helmet with a Mantling Gules doubled Argent, and on a Wreath of the proper Liveries is set for Crest a garb surmounted of a salmon on its back Proper, and in an Escrol over the Shield this Motto "Nihil Sine Lahore", and on a Compartment below the Shield are placed for Supporters on the dexter side, an engineer holding in his exterior hand a plan, and on the sinister a ship carpenter resting his exterior hand on a mallet, both habited Proper.
Crest: A steamboat proper<br>
Motto: INDUSTRIA DITAT.


====Origin/meaning====
===Origin/meaning===
The arms were granted on June 7, 1884.
The arms were never officially registered.


Govan which became a Police Burgh in 1864, has a long ecclesiastical history going back to 565 when Constantine, King of Cornwall, is reported to have founded a monastery there.  
Partick adopted the General Police Act of 1850 in 1852, and came under the provisions of the Lindsay Act in 1866. Under the Burgh Police Act of 1892 a Common Seal was designed, shown below, featuring the shield above.


The arms are based on the device on the Burgh seal in use at the time. They make reference to several industries which have been important to the life of the town. Ship-building, from modern times, is represented by the ship on the stocks and by the engineer and ship carpenter who support the shield. Agriculture and salmon fishing, from olden times, are recalled by the garb and salmon in the crest, the salmon also referring to Govan's close links with Glasgow.  
The lymphad is a conventional indication of the shipbuilding industry; the steamer symbolises the importance of the Burgh for boiler works in the town at the end of the 19th century.


The chief with its two pierced mullets and the garb in the crest come from the arms of William Rowand of Bellahouston and denote the close connection with Govan of his descend­ants, the Rowans of Homefauldhead.  
The castle recalls the fact that the Bishops of Glasgow here possessed a manor-house from a very early period, upon the site of which manor-house it probably was that the so-called castle, the ruins of which remained standing until about 1836 was erected in 1611.  


The Latin motto "Nothing without hard work" is very fitting to the rest of the blazon.  
The mitre is in memory of the proprietorship of Partick by the See of Glasgow, to which it was granted by David I in 1136.  


The supporters were granted after some discussion, because of the Burgh's size, importance and historical antiquity.
The garb and millstones, confined, in the chief sable, to the darkness of the past, are a memorial of the purely rural industries of Partick in the 19th century when it was an agricultural district possessing several mills belonging to its ecclesiastical superior.


{|align="center"
In 1903 it was proposed to simplify the arms as follows : <br>
|align="center"|[[File:govanseal.jpg|350 px|center|seal of {{PAGENAME}}]] <br/>Seal of the burgh as used in the 1890s
Gules, between a garb on the dexter, a mill-stone on the sinister, and a galley in base, or, a castle double-towered argent, ensigned of a precious mitre proper.
|align="center"|[[File:govan2.jpg|350 px|center]] <br/>The arms in the former town hall ([http://www.filmcityglasgow.com/mediaLibrary/images/english/51449.jpg source])
 
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This proposal was not accepted by the council.
|-
 
|align="center"|[[File:govan.jj.jpg|350 px|center|Arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]] <br/>The arms as used on a [[Jaja|JaJa postcard]] +/- 1905
<gallery widths=250px heights=200px perrow=0>
|align="center"|[[File:govan.haguk.jpg|center|Arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]] <br/>The arms in the [[Coffee Hag albums]] +/- 1925
File:partickseal.jpg|alt=Arms (crest) of Partick|Seal of the burgh as used in the 1890s
|}
File:partick2.jpg|alt=Arms (crest) of Partick|Fulla rms based on the seal
File:partick1.jpg|alt=Arms (crest) of Partick|The arms on Partick Bridge, Dumbarton Road ([http://www.gerryblaikie.com/westend/partick.htm source])<br>(wrong colours of the field)
File:partick4.jpg|alt=Arms (crest) of Partick|The proposal from 1903
</gallery>


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[[Literature]] : Porteous, 1906; Urquhart, 1974
[[Literature]] : Porteous, 1906; Bute et al, 1903; Fox-Davies, 1915


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PARTICK

Incorporated into : 1912 Glasgow

Arms (crest) of Partick

Official blazon

Quarterly. First and fourth, or, a lymphad or galley with oars in action sable, flags flying gules; second, gules, a double towered castle argent; third, gules , a bishop's precious mitre proper; on a chief sable a garb between two millstones or.

Crest: A steamboat proper
Motto: INDUSTRIA DITAT.

Origin/meaning

The arms were never officially registered.

Partick adopted the General Police Act of 1850 in 1852, and came under the provisions of the Lindsay Act in 1866. Under the Burgh Police Act of 1892 a Common Seal was designed, shown below, featuring the shield above.

The lymphad is a conventional indication of the shipbuilding industry; the steamer symbolises the importance of the Burgh for boiler works in the town at the end of the 19th century.

The castle recalls the fact that the Bishops of Glasgow here possessed a manor-house from a very early period, upon the site of which manor-house it probably was that the so-called castle, the ruins of which remained standing until about 1836 was erected in 1611.

The mitre is in memory of the proprietorship of Partick by the See of Glasgow, to which it was granted by David I in 1136.

The garb and millstones, confined, in the chief sable, to the darkness of the past, are a memorial of the purely rural industries of Partick in the 19th century when it was an agricultural district possessing several mills belonging to its ecclesiastical superior.

In 1903 it was proposed to simplify the arms as follows :
Gules, between a garb on the dexter, a mill-stone on the sinister, and a galley in base, or, a castle double-towered argent, ensigned of a precious mitre proper.

This proposal was not accepted by the council.

  • Arms (crest) of Partick

    Seal of the burgh as used in the 1890s

  • Arms (crest) of Partick

    Fulla rms based on the seal

  • Arms (crest) of Partick

    The arms on Partick Bridge, Dumbarton Road (source)
    (wrong colours of the field)

  • Arms (crest) of Partick

    The proposal from 1903

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