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.
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.
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.
//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.
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.
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.)
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.