The university will apparently have an online consultation and will listen to all views both internally and externally as to whether several of their buildings named after the likes of Wills, Fry and Goldney, who operated in those golden days of transatlantic trade several centuries ago, and who we must forever beat ourselves up about now should be renamed. This is the exact opposite of the renaming of the Colston Hall and the associated roads, which I don't believe the majority of Bristolians were ever asked their opinions of. Had the Mayor done so, he may have got a firm refusal to erase our history, whether it's good or bad. Given that a recent poll of 18-24 year old students, where the majority said that they thought Churchill wasn't a good person, you can see what the kids of today are (or aren't) being taught. They clearly have no clue that were it not for Churchill that they'd all be speaking German and living under a Nazi flag today clearly doesn't matter to them. The buildings in question are Wills Memorial Building Fry Building Merchant Venturers Building HH Wills Physics Laboratories Goldney Hall Wills Hall Dame Monica Wills Chapel If the people of Bristol are asked about this, and a fair number of what I call right minded people respond and say leave things as they are, then it should be an overwhelming majority.
hope they bear in mind in mind that without those people, bristol university as we know it i.e.one of the top research universities in the world, would simply not exist,surely more good done then harm.
they wouldnt exist as the likely hood would be that one or other of their grandparents were killed or both as they were consumed by the NAZI's. History when I was at school was taught up to about the start of WW1 there was a sort of stigma attached to it .... even questioning my grandfather about it was hard work I recall ..as for Churchill he was a hero
there should not be a consultation as the students there will be gone in a couple of years and the majority are not from Bristol anyway. I know a great number of ex UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL that go back as far as the 60's maybe 50 or more? and recall any being brought up in Bristol education establishments prior to UNI and most live maybe all but 4 more than 18 miles from Bristol
Idi Amin Memorial Building Fidel Castro Building Robert Magabi Venturers Building Osman Bin Laden Physics Laboratories
You forgot the following Colonel Gadaffi Entertainment Suite Sadam Hussain Play School Trust Building
the wokism world we live in now is a falsehood of not understanding the basic rules " like origin of ..... " [ applies to everything not just Humans ] mislead individuals get het up about the most trivial things and some get entangled in the web and fall foul to con artists in it.Like the aged "parent/ s " that have glued themselves to stuff and stopped traffic be cause their offspring take advantage. Without the slave trade millions of people of African descent would not be alive. WITHOUT Wills [ and other merchants ] and his tobacco exploits Bristol would still be a backwater port and AVON MOUTH well who knows? History is evolution, evolution is progress we learn by error's as well as just sitting down and thinking about it .... Can you imagine a world without the slave trade? ..... USA would likely be nothing like it is now ..... Africa nothing like now [ as most of the tribes would have killed each other off or severely curtailed their progress, it is still happening! ] We should embrace the past for what it was and acknowledge the good and bad aspects the modern day under 30's? are softer than previous generations...
Also worth mentioning all the people from Cornwall and West Wales that were taken captive by Barbary Pirates from North Africa over the centuries and who were never seen or heard from again, or the African Kings who rounded up their own people and put them in cages on their own beaches to sell to other nations. But that would be providing a balanced view of things and would never do. Interesting that Herr Sturgeon and her opposite number in New Zealand are now wanting to lower the voting age to 16 in their respective countries. Indoctrinate the youth with freebies and false hopes and you have them for life seems to be their goal. Isn't that how the Cultural Revolution and Hitler Youth movement started ? Quite alarming.
they say instead of just nursery Rymes before bed, kids should have a tape playing under their pillows for the first 15 mins or so of their sleep .. maybe just 1 small paragraph repeated 3 or 4 times along with the times table ending with a reading of the nursery rhyme which is their favourite. When I did my morse code test I did something similar for the week before it I went from 5 words a minute to 15 a minute [ pass was 12 ] ....
whilst theres no romance in poverty, i really have fond memories of sleeping top and tail under eiderdowns and army greatcoats with cousins etc, with ice on the inside of the windows, read into that what you may, but i would not have missed those days for the life me.
I remember overcoats on the bed, wearing our socks to keep our feet warm, bedroom curtain nets glued to the inside 0f windows by heavy frost, pints of milk on the doorstep frozen, pushing and raising the tops out of the bottles, 10% butter in margerine as a Sunday treat with our jam sandwiches at teatime, as you quite rightly say poverty is not romantic but I feel the same way about my younger days.
Same here The first house I lived in with central heating was when I got married and bought a house myself Before that it was houses with my Gran and Mum and a single coal fire in one room Socks in bed and coats on top of the eiderdiwn was the norm And even today I don’t like a warm bedroom
ah ha now those were the days when mattresses were flock .. chewed up recycled rags and horse hair often on a frame of springs! eider downs were "posh"... the good old fashioned "quilt" dozens of patch's sewn together from "dressmaker" remnants, or someones donation to the local jumble sale bought for 1d or rescued from the pile of unsold items waiting for the rag and bone man!!! and filled with goose feathers and the suchlike most beds were about 3 foot off the ground! air at floor level was considerably colder a foot or so lower! Ice or frost on windows ... yep ... wake up and write or draw pictures, rush down stairs where the "front/ living room fire" was warming your clothes on the fire guard! Usually it was a vest a thick shirt and a pullover [ sleeved or sleeveless ] and maybe a cardigan ... then off to school for me it was a mile walk to primary and 1.5mile to secondary before I went off to boarding school / college at 12 years and 9 month's ... gosh we were hard back then!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lamposts for wickets, our street challenge yours, blackjacks & fruit salads 1/4d (Farthing) each.....
I was born in one of the then (1954) new council houses in Highridge. Like everyone else, we had a coal fire in the living room and a gas cooker/oven in the kitchen. During the winter months, mum would get up early and simply put the gas oven on with the door open and that would be sufficient to make the kitchen really toasty before going off to school. Don't know what the cost of that would be now!!
I moved with my Mum into a Council prefab in the early 70's Because the walls were all metal, it was like an oven in Summer and a deep freeze in the winter with lots of condensation running down the walls. The only heat was the coal fire in the living room. But they were still happy days.
The stork dropped me off at Stone Cottages in Hallen, my biggest nightmares when very young was looking through the seat of the outside privy and praying I wouldn't fall through and we had a familty of huge black spiders with thick fearful looking cobwebs that always hung around the dark corners of the roof, qiuckest deposits you ever could guess went on in that shadowy place, it makes me shudder now.
