Whiteladies Road was a muddy track with sewage running down it until the mid 19th century when the area was developed for housing, so did not actually link with the above until well after the slave trade ended. The White ladies had nothing to do with slavery – ladies were by definition white, so this would have been a tautology. They were Carmelite nuns who dressed in white. Their nunnery was on St Michael’s Hill, opposite the now redundant parish church. The surrounding land was leased to fund their house and Whiteladies Gate, the start of a turnpike, was where Clifton Down shopping centre now stands.

The origins of Blackboy Hill’s name are unknown. The region about a mile up a hill beyond the old city limits, a stopping point for farmers en route to Bristol markets, so easy targets for highwaymen on their way home.

One possibility is that, as Blackboy Inn would have been used to try such criminals, who were often executed and their remains put on display in a gibbet to deter others, they may have had tarred corpses hung there, hence black boys.

More likely, according to the Wills tobacco archives, is that a black boy was often used on pub signs where tobacco was sold in the 17th century when tobacco was very expensive. Tobacco was sold in many outlets, and an isolated pub would have sold all manner of items.

Instead a number of new memorials in the capital have been pledged by Mr Khan, including ones for Stephen Lawrence, the Windrush generation, a National Slavery Museum or memorial and a National Sikh War Memorial.

If he does I'm going to see Tommy Robinson and organise a gang of angry white folks to go and pull them down....

Instead a number of new memorials in the capital have been pledged by Mr Khan, including ones for Stephen Lawrence, the Windrush generation, a National Slavery Museum or memorial and a National Sikh War Memorial.

If he does I'm going to see Tommy Robinson and organise a gang of angry white folks to go and pull them down....

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I would not object to the Sikh one, they are like the Gurkhas, very fierce fighters on our behalf..

Khan is a politician, he justs wants votes.