Quote Originally Posted by Gofer Blue View Post
I worked for several years in Bristol in an office in a small side street just off Black Boy Hill which is not far from Whiteladies Road. I was always conscious of the names of those roads which didn't seem to bother the locals - I guess they had grown up with them and didn't think too much about them.
I was the same. I lived in digs in Redland when I went to university in 1977 - close to Black Boy Hill - and none of the locals registered the names the way 'outsiders' did. There were constant reminders of the slaving past on street signs.