The Badge of the City
The Manchester badge is an Eagle perched on a white mural crown, with a red letter ‘M’ inside a circle on it’s breast. The eagle derived from a prototype on the Roman Standard, it represents the Roman origins of Manchester and with the rings, its importance as an airport; the white mural crown symbolises the cotton metropolis and the pioneer of clean air and the ‘M’ suggesting the City’s name is derived from the Arms of the West’s, manorial successors to the De-Grelleys.