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Returning to Burnley bus station after visiting some members’ home, I took a short cut through the houses and stumbled across Burnley’s Salvation Army Corps. The Skipton bus was departing in ten minutes’ time, so barely had I time to take my photographs and then my leave.

‘Quarterly gules and in the first and fourth quarters a cross potent argent’. This is the description of the Crosse family's coat of arms, who lived in Wigan, Liverpool and Lathom in the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries, from whom I descend. Heraldry enjoys its own peculiar and arcane language, for which translation is called:

‘Gules’ means red.

'Argent’ means silver.