They're Everywhere, They're Everywhere!

And who is this "they" of whom I speak in the title of this post?

Why, the arms of the City of Westminster, Borough of London, England, of course.

What did you think I meant?

Anyway, you can find the arms of the City of Westminster displayed in lots of different places there. For instance, on the facade of the Westminster Archives Center.

The arms are (as you can see) fairly complicated, and have a long blazon: Azure between two wolves' heads erased argent and on a base wavy argent and azure a female figure affronty vested and mantled and on her sinister arm a child also vested around the head of each a halo all or on a chief or on a pale azure a cross flory between five martlets or (being the arms of King Edward the Confessor) between two Tudor roses barbed and seeded proper. (In the above image, the gold seems to have faded out to nearly white. That's what you get for leaving it out in the weather, I guess.)

But there are other, more commonplace, places to see the City's arms. For example, on each post in a line of bollards:

Here's a close-up for greater detail:

And, of course, there is the always ubiquitous* litter bin:

With the close-up of the arms:

It is nice to see a city using its coat of arms, even if they are rather complex.

* Ubiquitous: "present, appearing, or found everywhere". Hence the inspiration for the title of this post.