Can we bring home a little piece of our history please?

After my post of the 24th September I was interested to see this on the BBC website. In 1995, amid huge public controversy, £12 million of National Lottery money was spent acquiring the Churchill Diaries. Something in fact that could have been bought 24 years earlier for as little as £100,000.

Wouldn’t something around £15,000 be worth buying for the nation if it were as unique and irreplaceable as this solitary flag? Indeed, the NL’s own website says “Each week, National Lottery players raise £25 million for Good Causes across the UK.”

Doesn't seem unreasonable to bring it home to our seafaring nation for such a small part of that £25m! Hopefully the Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw agrees. It would be superb somewhere on display within the Portsmouth Dockyard, possibly even Nelson's cabin. I suspect though that the age of the flag would mean somewhere away from the possibility of light damage.


nick