| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Are our State schools allowed to teach history? | |
| Posted by: | Richard Greenhough | |
| Date/Time: | 26/06/20 10:49:00 |
| There are roads named Savile Crescent in Bordon, Hampshire, and Halifax, Yorkshire. AFAIK neither have any connection with Jimmy Savile. By the logic applied by Camden Council in changing the name of Selous Street (named after the artist Henry Courtney Selous, who seems to have been perfectly acceptable himself, but happened to have a nephew with Southern Africa connections) then these roads ought to be renamed. Unless all roads are given names that cannot possibly be anyone's name or even nickname (I'll bet that someone is known as "Sweet Pea") then at some point there is the potential for someone to find a name offensive. Perhaps we could copy the American-style First Avenue, Second Avenue etc, or to use a local example in Twickenham, First Cross Road, Second Cross Road etc., but on balance I think street names should be left as they are. And then there is the example of Penny Lane in Liverpool, which may or may not have connections with a long-dead slaver, which has been suggested could be renamed after a Beatles song and become......Penny Lane. |