What's In A Name

[Bazile]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=Colston+hall+renamed

This will raise the BP levels of some people .

Are you one of them ?

[Mamyalynne]

They are aren't they?

They've been discussing the name change for years,what's it got to do with BLM?

Saturday Hall sounds daft.

[Mozz71]

Yup. George Burns was wrong. It's not only death and taxes that are inevitable.

[webbo3]

it will always be the Colston Hall or col snaw as we say in Bristol, they want to erase everything about Colston, apart from the money he spent around the city.

[fcc]

^^^
So true,saw some great rock bands there ,but i will not be bothering in the future.

[douglas9401]

Rumblings already suggesting Beacon devalues its status, should have gone with Acon.

[webbo3]

no one mentions this...
http://web.archive.org/web/20051218105901/http://www.iconfilms.co.uk/whiteslaves/

[Mamyalynne]

Well they do, there are many books on the subject and I have watched documentaries - we cannot force broadcasters to show what we want - we can ask though.

[Cloverjo]

I’m fairly local. I’ve been there a few times. I wasn’t bothered about the name then and I’m not bothered about what they call it now.

Can we get some people back on stage somewhere soon?

[andres]

I have mentioned white slavery several times in various threads. No-one seems to pick up on it though. In fact one of my own ancestors was captured and enslaved for many years in Morocco.. There is a book called 'White Gold' that tells his story.

[Mozz71]

//So true,saw some great rock bands there ,but i will not be bothering in the future.//

Wait, what? You wouldn't see a band because you don't like the name of the venue they're playing at??

God almighty, some folk are pathetic.

[fcc]

Colston Hall sounded good to me.

[Peter Pedant]

thos pellow - the story of europes one million slaves largely ignored by northern govts

you see andres I do read others posts

[webbo3]

\\//So true,saw some great rock bands there ,but i will not be bothering in the future.//

Wait, what? You wouldn't see a band because you don't like the name of the venue they're playing at??

God almighty, some folk are pathetic.//


Massive attack didn't play there because of the name Colston.

[emmie]

couldn't care less, if they had left it as Colston it wouldn't have bothered me

[youngmafbog]

I dont have a problem with what they call any hall.

But I do have a problem the way a lot of this is being done by listening to the loudest mob rather than through democracy.

[chelle7272]

//Wait, what? You wouldn't see a band because you don't like the name of the venue they're playing at??//

That's why they changed the name in the first place, people felt excluded because of the name Colston.

I'm not keen on the new name, but I'm not going to get het up about it. It will still be Colston Hall to most of us locals for a long time, as tends to happen with venue name changes everywhere.

[lady-janine]

Oh dear. This seems to have a whiff of Holocaust denial about it. Re-writing history is never a good idea. Accept it for what it is and learn from it. No amount of changing this and that can ever completely remove the basic truth.

[Theland]

If you go along Scottie Road in Liverpool, (Cilla Black born there), all locals know where the Rotunda is, but it isn't, but it is, and it will always be there, but you can't find it, because its not there!
(What's that got to do with Colston? I don't know! I don't live there.)

[horselady]

I'm a West Country girl through and through, went to all my teenage gigs at the Colston Hall, including The Beetles. It will be The Colston Hall to me always. Bristol Beacon sounds like a local newspaper.

[Theland]

It keeps the woke happy I guess.