The badge you see above, or shall we say shield, is believed to date from 1956.<\/p>\n
On the top left-hand side, you can see the Bruce Castle which a 16th century building which currently houses the local history of the London Borough of Haringey.<\/p>\n
The cockerel and ball first appeared in 1909 when a former player, one W.J. Scott, cast a copper centrepiece to perch on the new West Stand.<\/p>\n
On the right are the seven trees planted at Page Green by the seven sisters of Tottenham, thus is the district known as Seven Sisters.<\/p>\n
The two lions rampant are taken from the crest of the Northumberland family who feature heavily in the history of the local area. They lived at the Black House – later renamed Percy House – situated on the High Road opposite White Hart Lane.<\/p>\n
It is probable that the Northumberland family hold the key to our being called Hotspur. Henry Percy, the 1st Earl of Northumberland, had a son Sir Henry Percy, whose deeds on the battlefields earned him the nickname ‘Harry Hotspur’. According to the history books he was slain at Shrewsbury in 1403.<\/p>\n
Finally, we shall mention that the reason we have not included the badge or shield on this page elsewhere, except in a very small format in the reports, is that we have been told by the Tottenham Hotspur Football Club it is a copyrighted trademark of T.H.F.C. Basically, we were forced to remove the badge on all of our previous pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"