Crest
The club crest is a traditional shield in design, white in background with green writing and logo.
The three wavy lines at the top denote the River Thames, which is just 200 yards from the clubs Bayliss Avenue ground. Below this are two cannons, in between which is the clubs full name.
The cannons derive from the town's previous use as a military testing ground for the local artillery munitions works in neighbouring Woolwich.
Before the building of the town of Thamesmead in the 1960s, the land consisted primarily of marshes where, since the 18th century, shots would be fired to test the accuracy and range of heavy artillery designed and built at the munitions works.
Until 2009/10, the crest prominently displayed the club’s initials, T.T.F.C. which had been an original part of the brest design. This has now been removed in a modified version of the badge, published in summer 2009.
Read more about this topic: Thamesmead Town F.C.
Famous quotes containing the word crest:
“The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“What shall he have that killed the deer?
His leather skin and horns to wear.
Then sing him home.
Take thou no scorn to wear the horn,
It was a crest ere thou wast born;
Thy father’s father wore it,
And thy father bore it.
The horn, the horn, the lusty horn
Is not a thing to laugh to scorn.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)