#edward colston

[vendemiairism]

Today is the fifth anniversary of slave trader Edward Colston's statue being pulled down by protesters and dumped into the docks where it belongs.

[richwall101]

Bristol's New Concert Hall - The Bristol Beacon - Nov 2023

Formerly 'The Colston Hall' the building has been completely renovated and redesigned with an auditorium as acoustically perfect as possible. The rebuild was by architects & developers Levitt & Bernstein cost £130m

The original hall was opened in 1867 and has undergone several refits since and had suffered from a devastating fire.

Bristol merchant Edward Colston purchased a house on this site in 1707 and founded a boy's school there that was named after him, the school however moved out of the building in 1857 and a Company called the Colston Hall Company bought the site in 1861. Subsequently the first Colston Hall was opened to the public on the 20th of September 1867, being built in the Neo-Byzantine style

The bronze statue of Edward Colston (Atlantic Slave Trader) in the center of Bristol, was pulled down by protesters and thrown into Bristol's harbour on 11th June 2020. The statue was recovered and is now on display in Bristol's M-Shed Museum on the harbour side, still covered with graffiti and lying on its side...Many of the building and institutions in Bristol that carried the Colston name have since been renamed. However "Colston Street" in the city center retains its name.

[timelordhugs]

‘Statues are not the mechanism by which we understand history. We learn history through museums, through books, through television programmes. Statues are about adoration. They are about saying that this man was a great man and he did great things. That is not true. He was a slave trader and a murderer.’

- historian David Olusoga on BBC News, regarding the statue of Edward Colston being pulled down by BLM protestors in Bristol, and the “erasing history” argument used to criticise the act.

[useless-englandfacts]

a photo taken after the statue of 17th century slave trader, Edward Colston, was torn down in Bristol

[scavengedluxury]

Colston was a Tory MP and deputy governor of the Royal Africa Company which transported an estimated 84,000 Africans, including children, as slaves. 19,000 died en route to the Caribbean and the Americas.

[awed-frog]

anyway

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[alphareader]

Not all heroes wear capes ✌️