West Dorset’s broken signs: Part 1
NEXT WEEK, I was planning to start a series on the broken signs of West Dorset, for all sorts of reasons to be revealed, but then going out just a short while ago I saw this –
at Gore Cross, on the A3066 on the northernmost edge of Bridport, and I thought, woo, I’m going to have to start now.
It’s difficult to tell quite what’s happened here. At first it looks like something enormous – like a lorry – must have toppled over on to these sprigs of knowledge and flattened them in a road accident, but there aren’t obvious signs of debris around or any deep wheelmarks in the grass – as you’d expect when the ground is so soggy.
I can’t quite believe that any one person could be strong enough, and determined enough, to cause all this wreckage. And it would still be a tough job for more than one person.
What is noticeable is that the grass around Gore Cross, and along the verges down towards Colfox School, has very recently been cut – and other smaller signs have also been damaged. Could this be a clue?
If you know what happened, please get in touch via the Real West Dorset Contact page.
December 6: The Red Bladder writes to say “It was the aliens wot dun it and we will soon be seeing a lot more of this kind of thing”. Click here to read more of his good-humoured thoughts on predatory bug-eyed monsters. I have to say, this is a possibility I hadn’t considered.
Although now I come to think of it, I have recently had two conversations at Washingpool Farm Shop about the 1970s musical version of HG Wells’ The War of The Worlds. Two of the staff were desperate to know who the singer was, and no one, first time round, could remember – not staff, not customers, not delivery men – although we could all remember the tune and sing it.
“The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one / But still they come!”
Second time round the verdict on the musical was that it was something to do with Jeff Wayne and Manfred Mann. [See the Red Bladder’s comment on this article for the truth!]
As for Gore Cross, I’m not persuaded it was aliens – but it’s funny how ideas float through the air…
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It was Justin Hayward – a member of the Moody Blues
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