March 2010 POD #4 - White Rose of York - Detail - Project Idea

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Very interesting!

March 17, 2010

Love the history lesson!

March 13, 2010

Thanks for including all the history with your shots. I love to hear the history of things :)

March 12, 2010

How neat!

March 12, 2010

great shot and great info

March 12, 2010

Wow, thats a lot of rose history there.

March 11, 2010

Neat shot... TFS!!

March 11, 2010

Ohhh, love the info that comes with this, I have a feeling I have heard it before in history class but that was a few years ago. Love this refresher course you are giving us.

March 11, 2010

another cool shot, and interesting history.

March 11, 2010

Very informative! TFS! =}

March 11, 2010

very beautiful architectural details - thanks for the history lesson.

March 11, 2010

March 2010 POD #4 - White Rose of York - Detail

This is the White Rose of York on the Duke of York Pub entrance canopy attached to the Old Town Hall that bears the Red Rose of Lancaster. Historically this is the York Rose so Richard III would have borne this emblem. Richard was killed at Bosworth Field during the War of the Roses. Henry VII became King and the Plantagenents (House of York) gave way to the Tudors (House of Lancaster). Henry VII married Elizabeth of York and then combined the two roses as their emblem into the Tudor Rose (Henry VIII was their youngest son). The fact that these are on two side-by-side buildings reminds me of it's own War of the Roses!

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