For no doubt others from our recorded pasts are also likely to suffer the similar biased cultural shredding of Colston and I suspect there will be further opposition from authentic Bristolians…
R L Smith
The music committee's sole aim, it would appear, is to change the name of a certain Bristol building - something I supsect 90 percent of genuine Bristolians do not want.
H. W White
And to the rest of you people living here, born and bred: do something. Don’t less this happen. Colson Hall is Bristol’s. It’s ours, yours and mine. It’s not theirs.
H.W WHite
While we’re about it why don’t we get rid of everything Italian (restaurants, food shops, etc) for all the slavery the Romans brought to our shores…and whilst on the subject, all our Danish pastry shops for the raping and pillaging the Vikings did to us.
Tim Lalonde
My family came from France in the late 19th century…We’ve never sought an apology for Trafalgar, Waterloo, Agincourt…
Tim Lalonde
…if we change the name of the Colston Hall then we also have to look at Wills, Cadbury’s and Fry’s, all philanthropic dynasties but no doubt something in their past would offend some people.
“A Bristolian with a voting bug.”
While there are those who would clearly prefer to see the name of Edward Colston eradicated from Bristol altogether, he was an always will be a part of our great city’s history, warts and all…
Adrian Courtney Smith
Slavery was bad and we all say that now, but…
“A Bristolian with a voting bug.”
