Current Affairs Liverpool streets named after slavers....

[BigBlueConk]

@Moomin

Seventy Seven Street.

 

[dead_soft]

The most ridiculous thread ever started. I’m surprised tbh.....we would be changing names every 25-50:years as each name fell to the latest pc culture.......goodbye Saville row.......

Do you, do you think Saville Row is named after Jimmy Saville?

 

[Moomin]

Exactly; would a militant left Council...or just the standard leftish Council for that matter want to rename all those streets named after minor tory / royal private secretary/ functionary / civil servants...although tbf, there are streets named Ramsey and MacDonald in the same area.

As long as they weren't in the slave trade they could remain.

Only the slavers we want to rid from our legacy.

 

[Death]

They'll be saying the same thing in a few hundred years about these wage slavers that are being respected.

 

[Moomin]

This really, would Liverpool really want to rename a lane immortalised within a Beatles song, because the guy they named it after owned slave ships......

Yes, it was a crap song as well.

 

[Khalekan]

I wouldn’t mind living in Spartacus Street or Maximus Mews

I hope I end up on Paradise Street

 

[Prevenger17]

Do you, do you think Saville Row is named after Jimmy Saville?

*Savile

 

[Eggs]

....like it or lump it, slavery is part of the city’s history and street names serve as a reminder. We can’t obliterate history, even if there are aspects we wouldn’t chose to celebrate.

The Goree is an island off the African coast synonymous with slavery and also a part of the Dock Rd. I was told there are marks on the old wall where the shackles were attached but i’m not sure if that’s the case.

 

[dead_soft]

*Savile

aye, still doesn't change the question for @peteblue

 

[Alan Whittle]

We have had this same discussion in Bristol for years and years. And in the end, it was generally accepted that no one these days knows why a street, a concert hall, a statue, or a clock tower was named anyrate. It was just what it was called.

And this in a city that was built on slavery, tobacco, and sherry. And also still has streets called Blackboy Hill and Whiteladies Road.

Basically, they arent honoured anymore, they are just there.

Is Colston Hall still Colston Hall.I heard it was going to change after the refurb.

 

[peteblue]

aye, still doesn't change the question for @peteblue

Sorry, I thought you were joking.....you were surely......

 

[roydo]

Is Colston Hall still Colston Hall.I heard it was going to change after the refurb.

As far as I know, yeah. In Colston Avenue (?), opposite a statue of Colston, not far from Colston Hill, Colston Girls School, and probably half a dozen Colston named roads.

edit. Though I am sure you know, in the local dialect it is of course, The Collsunall.

 

[dead_soft]

Sorry, I thought you were joking.....you were surely......

What do you mean? Was your Savile comment a joke?

 

[Prevenger17]

What do you mean? Was your Savile comment a joke?

Pretty sure it was a joke tbf

 

[dead_soft]

Pretty sure it was a joke tbf

Not entirely sure with the man who thinks complaining about the slave trade is PC gone mad