Holyport play their games at Summerleaze village Cricket Club, Blackamoor Lane, Maidenhead, Berkshire SL6 8SP . The ground has a covered stands for a 100 people, floodlights and hard standing.
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There are some nonsense verses and several that are now regarded as racist, including " Blackamoor, " in which a black child is described as being the son of a cuckold.
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Darwin wrote home that " I am going to learn to stuff birds, from a blackamoor . . . he only charges one guinea, for an hour every day for two months ".
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However Moors have suffered similar injustice throughout Africa, India, Sri Lanka, the Arabian peninsula, Asia and Latin speaking countries as negritos, moriscoes, blackamoors and black landinos And other derogatories.
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One other point : you say that the word'blackamoor'is attested in the 13th century, though I personally can only trace its use back to the first half of the sixteenth century.
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The "'Arabian Hall "', sometimes known as the Blackamoor Hall or the Arabian Dining Room, is one of the Tsaritsa's winter-garden below, admitted light.
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Former drinking establishments included The Blackamoor's Head ( later renamed The Black Boy ) and The Railway Inn, which opened in around 1780 and 1860 respectively, but had both closed by the 1960s.
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The cite from the 13thC is in " Ancrene Wisse " and is actually " Blac as a bloamon "'bloamon'being a mangled mixture of blackman and the Old Norse for blackamoor.
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One " surtout, " ornamentation for a grand dinner table, is an 18th-century-style Nymphenburg porcelain pyramid to which he added four antique blackamoor archers, much to the consternation of Corbusier.
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In the later 16th century, and into the first two decades of the 17th century, 25 persons named in the records of the small parish of St Botolph's in Aldgate are identified as " blackamoors ".
