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Civic Heraldry of the United Kingdom STEPNEY Borough of London Incorporated into : 1965 Tower Hamlets Arms : Silver, a black lymhad with its sail furled, on water in the base of the shield; on a blue chief two silver fire-tongs erect, and between them a silver pale charged with a red cross and in the first quarter an ancher proper. Crest : On a silver and blue wrath, the battlements of a tower proper and thereon two anchors crosswise. Motto : A magnis ad maiora " From great things to greater". Origin/meaning : The arms were granted on August 8, 1931. The arms express the history of Stepney. Shipping has been the major industry, thus the ship. The fire-tongs are the symbol of St. Dunstan, the patron saint of the town, who used fire-tongs to pinch the Devil's nose. The St. Georges cross is derived from the arms of the Greater London Council and the arms of London. The anchors again symbolise the port. Literature : Scott-Giles, C.W. : Civic heraldry of England and Wales, London, 1932.

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