Bradninch and Hele Friendly Society pole head
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 crown symbol was used by the Bradninch and Hele Friendly Society and the Bridge Yate Friendly Society in Somerset.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 8/1985/2
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Material
- copper alloy
- Common Name
- Bradninch and Hele Friendly Society pole head
- Simple Name
- pole head
