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Author:  paulzolo [ Tue Mar 22, 2016 10:00 am ]
Post subject:  Vandals scrub 'Blackmore' from over 20 village signs Read m
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Mystery surrounds a series of targeted acts of vandalism, where the word Blackmore has been painted over on around 20 different signs in the village and beyond.

The signs targeted on Saturday and Sunday night included road signs for Blackmore Road and Blackmore Mead and signs leading to the village from Kelvedon Hatch and Ingatestone.

Vandals also snapped off the Blackmore arm of two wooden fingerpost signs and even the village stocks have been doused with paint.


http://www.brentwoodgazette.co.uk/Vanda ... story.html

This is just odd, and real. I saw a lot of those signs yesterday. They are genuinely painted out like that, and the stocks on the village green have been daubed with paint.
Author:  jonbwfc [ Tue Mar 22, 2016 10:25 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Vandals scrub 'Blackmore' from over 20 village signs Re
They've got it wrong anyway I think. The 'old word' related to skin colour is black*a*more , 'Blackmore' probably just comes from 'black moor'.

Jon
Author:  paulzolo [ Tue Mar 22, 2016 12:30 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Vandals scrub 'Blackmore' from over 20 village signs Re
jonbwfc wrote:
They've got it wrong anyway I think. The 'old word' related to skin colour is black*a*more , 'Blackmore' probably just comes from 'black moor'.

Jon


This is Wikipedia:
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It is thought that the name Blackmore was introduced in the Middle Ages as a reference to 'Black Marsh' or 'Black Swamp'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackmore#History

So I expect you are right there. Though “Moor” was a name for Muslims who lived in Spain and other areas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moors

I have no reason to see why they would name a village after a group of people of Muslim persuasion. Unless they were coming over here, settling in a small village, opening up tea rooms, and arranging a duck crossing.
Author:  Spreadie [ Tue Mar 22, 2016 1:51 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Vandals scrub 'Blackmore' from over 20 village signs Re
Maybe Ritchie ran over their cat, or something.
Author:  jonbwfc [ Tue Mar 22, 2016 5:49 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Vandals scrub 'Blackmore' from over 20 village signs Re
Maybe they people defacing stuff are just dicks.
Author:  hifidelity2 [ Wed Mar 23, 2016 1:55 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Vandals scrub 'Blackmore' from over 20 village signs Re
jonbwfc wrote:
Maybe they people defacing stuff are just dicks.

+1 to that
Author:  paulzolo [ Wed Mar 23, 2016 9:26 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Vandals scrub 'Blackmore' from over 20 village signs Re
hifidelity2 wrote:
jonbwfc wrote:
Maybe they people defacing stuff are just dicks.

+1 to that

I would concur.
Author:  ProfessorF [ Mon Mar 28, 2016 3:41 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Vandals scrub 'Blackmore' from over 20 village signs Re
Locally, when Dartington Art School closed, someone went round all of the Dartington road signs and painted out the 'art' in Dartington leaving 'D___ington'. As protests go, I thought it was quite imaginative.
Author:  paulzolo [ Tue Mar 29, 2016 9:10 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Vandals scrub 'Blackmore' from over 20 village signs Re
ProfessorF wrote:
Locally, when Dartington Art School closed, someone went round all of the Dartington road signs and painted out the 'art' in Dartington leaving 'D___ington'. As protests go, I thought it was quite imaginative.


I like that. :-)
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