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Want to learn more about the work we do, find out more about the industry or get advice on how to best display your flags? Check out our blog posts below!

Flags History

On the 20th March, County Durham celebrates its patron saint, St Cuthbert’s feast day. The flag of County Durham plays an important role in the celebrations.
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20th Mar 2024
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Flagpoles are more than just practical tools; they’re also artistic expressions. Flagpoles are designed with the main purpose of holding your flags high. However they also
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7th Feb 2024
Flags History

The term ‘Home Nations’ refers to the constituent countries of the United Kingdom: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. As well as the Union flag that
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26th Jan 2023
History

With St Andrew’s Day just around the corner, we thought we’d take a look at who Saint Andrew was, how he became Scotland’s patron saint and
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23rd Nov 2022
Flags History

There’s less than two weeks to go until this year’s Commonwealth Games. So, we thought we’d take a look at the history of the games, how
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15th Jul 2022
History

HARRISON FLAGPOLES, SIX GENERATIONS OF TENACITY AND INGENUITY  Newton Aycliffe-headquartered Harrison Flagpoles has been in business for 167 years. Northern Insight spoke to managing director, Adrian
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23rd Jun 2021
Flags History

As a flag and flagpole manufacturer you’ll probably expect us to have only positive things to say about our products.  And you’d be correct. We can’t
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1st Sep 2020
Flag of the month Flags History

As the nation commemorates 75 years since the end of the World War II we see fit to place the Union as our Flag of the
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6th May 2020
Flags History

As a proud UK based company we like to celebrate our heritage. Harrison’s have been operating in County Durham, in North East England for over 50 years so
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12th Mar 2020
Flags History

As leading flag manufacturers we print and hand sew lots of Family Crest and Coat of Arms flags. Below are the questions we get asked the
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28th Jun 2019