Cullompton Friendly Society pole head
- Description
- Friendly Societies were 19th and early 20th century cooperative organisations to support rural workers. In some ways they were proto-trade unions but they also adopted semi-masonic symbols to create a sense of identity. The heart in the hand symbol was used by the Cullompton Friendly Society.
- Accession Loan No.
- 8/1985/1
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Common Name
- Cullompton Friendly Society pole head
- Simple Name
- pole head
- Full Name
- Cullompton Friendly Society brass pole head
- Family Group
- Material
- copper alloy; wood
- Collection Site Name
- Cullompton
- Collection County
- Devon
- Collection Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collection Continent
- Europe
