I didn’t know that was such a common name! We have a Black Boy Hill and Whiteladies Road in Bristol, lovingly called “Whiteladies” to save time.
Is it really that big of a deal that the name was changed? I have never felt emotionally attached to the name of any road I have lived on, only the house itself.
Just a wee bit ironic to include the former name in brackets if the whole point of changing it in the first place was to avoid any offence
How can we justify spending money on things like this, given the current economic situation? It’s criminal.
Give the £180k to a food bank.
Maybe they should change names of crossings too , as not to offend zebras, pelicans, puffins and toucans
£186,000 of taxpayers money was spent on this name change that no one seemingly wanted. You can do some things with £186,000. Maybe fix a youth centre or something?
Maybe they should’ve tried to reclaim the word instead of censoring it.
Get all the local drill rappers to start walking around calling each other “Black Boy”. Would’ve been cool in no time.
What does Black Boy mean in this context? Does it literally just mean a Black male child? What’s the reason so many places are called that? I know the article suggests why the street was called this, but it still seems weird that so many places are called this.
There’s one in Exeter people want renamed but it’s named after an old king of ours that had that nickname or something – they’ve just never bothered looking it up.
They just see the name and take offense.
(Wait til they look at old signs and see Shitebrook lane…)
£180k ffs. Words and names have evolved in the decades and centuries our cities have stood. Get over it you fannies.
There was a Raw Dykes Road near me in Leicester, maybe the Ls of the LGBT can stump up a couple hundred grand to get that changed.
Wow if that’s over a sign, I hate to see what will happen to the black country
This is the most ridiculous culture war episode yet. No one apart from a few professionally offended people cared. Ask any local who is struggling with heating bills or rents & they would say the same. The title itself isn’t offensive either, it’s nothing derogatory & could mean many different things
Instead these people have triggered a culture war episode, cost taxpayers a fortune and ended up writing the offensive name on the sign anyway. Predictably it immediately gets vandalised & then people get outraged. GB news then spend the week ridiculing the progressive movement & nothing positive actually happens
Didn’t realise they were going to put “formerly black boy lane” underneath, kind of defeats the purpose of renaming it if it still says it
Theres a Black Boy Bridge/Lane in County Durham – guessing it’s got something to do with the pits
Yeah nothing possibly to do with chimney boys or miner kids… Gotta be purely racist things…FML…
Heard somewhere that this name change cost £178k. Good to see taxpayers money spent on something worthwhile and wanted 🙄
I thought the places called “Black Boy” were either a reference to Charles II & his nickname, particularly where pubs are concerned, or were because of mining in the area that left miners black with coal.
Little boys were sent down chimneys by chimney sweeps. It was very common at one time. Typical councils looking for racism where it is not there.
Why was this even needed? Who complained? Waste of money and time.
This made us laugh so much when we saw they’d put (formerly Black Boy lane) on the sign watching the news.
I mean if you found ‘Black boy lane’ offensive then you’re still going to aren’t you?
I personally prefer the new name.
I think it’s rather cool to name streets after people from those areas. I didn’t know about La Rose but now I do, thanks news!
We have a Ye Olde Black Boy pub where I live. Or at least we did the last time I passed it, maybe that’s been changed too and I haven’t realised. It’d be kinda ironic if they changed it, as it’s on the same street as the Wilberforce museum, aka the guy behind the end of the slave trade in Britain.
Council: ‘we need to rename this street’
Public: ‘why?’
Council: ‘because it’s offensive’
Public: ‘to whom?’
Council: ‘black people’
Public: ‘it refers to chimney sweeps, not black people’
Council: ‘oh, well we’re still taking offence on someone else’s behalf anyway, so just change in anyway’
If it costs 180k to change a sign something is fundamentally wrong with the civil service.
Putting apart controversy of a name, those changes are very, very costly for occupants of houses on that address, especially as ( it looks like) it wasn’t them who wanted to change it name and it was them who opposed it.
£300 is not enough to change a set of documents, not to mention time lost.
We had a pub in our local village called ‘the black boy’ which had a black child on the sign so there was little ambiguity about its meaning.
Whatever next? Soon they’ll be changing “grabcunt lane” to something more pc
“the new name – which pays tribute to Black publisher John La Rose”
Mr La Rose will forever be associated with the expression “black boy”, a dubious honour that strikes me as in bad taste. I question the wit of those who made this decision.
Just outside of Southport there is “Ralph’s Wife’s Lane”. Old Street names are just odd.
It’s kind of weird changing the name but also ‘formerly Black Boy Lane’ it’s comical really.
From the area. Not once in all my life have I ever heard anyone say anything about the name. It’ll always be black boy lane.
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I didn’t know that was such a common name! We have a Black Boy Hill and Whiteladies Road in Bristol, lovingly called “Whiteladies” to save time.
Is it really that big of a deal that the name was changed? I have never felt emotionally attached to the name of any road I have lived on, only the house itself.
Just a wee bit ironic to include the former name in brackets if the whole point of changing it in the first place was to avoid any offence
How can we justify spending money on things like this, given the current economic situation? It’s criminal.
Give the £180k to a food bank.
Maybe they should change names of crossings too , as not to offend zebras, pelicans, puffins and toucans
£186,000 of taxpayers money was spent on this name change that no one seemingly wanted. You can do some things with £186,000. Maybe fix a youth centre or something?
Maybe they should’ve tried to reclaim the word instead of censoring it.
Get all the local drill rappers to start walking around calling each other “Black Boy”. Would’ve been cool in no time.
What does Black Boy mean in this context? Does it literally just mean a Black male child? What’s the reason so many places are called that? I know the article suggests why the street was called this, but it still seems weird that so many places are called this.
There’s one in Exeter people want renamed but it’s named after an old king of ours that had that nickname or something – they’ve just never bothered looking it up.
They just see the name and take offense.
(Wait til they look at old signs and see Shitebrook lane…)
£180k ffs. Words and names have evolved in the decades and centuries our cities have stood. Get over it you fannies.
There was a Raw Dykes Road near me in Leicester, maybe the Ls of the LGBT can stump up a couple hundred grand to get that changed.
Wow if that’s over a sign, I hate to see what will happen to the black country
This is the most ridiculous culture war episode yet. No one apart from a few professionally offended people cared. Ask any local who is struggling with heating bills or rents & they would say the same. The title itself isn’t offensive either, it’s nothing derogatory & could mean many different things
Instead these people have triggered a culture war episode, cost taxpayers a fortune and ended up writing the offensive name on the sign anyway. Predictably it immediately gets vandalised & then people get outraged. GB news then spend the week ridiculing the progressive movement & nothing positive actually happens
Didn’t realise they were going to put “formerly black boy lane” underneath, kind of defeats the purpose of renaming it if it still says it
Theres a Black Boy Bridge/Lane in County Durham – guessing it’s got something to do with the pits
Yeah nothing possibly to do with chimney boys or miner kids… Gotta be purely racist things…FML…
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Heard somewhere that this name change cost £178k. Good to see taxpayers money spent on something worthwhile and wanted 🙄
I thought the places called “Black Boy” were either a reference to Charles II & his nickname, particularly where pubs are concerned, or were because of mining in the area that left miners black with coal.
Little boys were sent down chimneys by chimney sweeps. It was very common at one time. Typical councils looking for racism where it is not there.
Why was this even needed? Who complained? Waste of money and time.
This made us laugh so much when we saw they’d put (formerly Black Boy lane) on the sign watching the news.
I mean if you found ‘Black boy lane’ offensive then you’re still going to aren’t you?
I personally prefer the new name.
I think it’s rather cool to name streets after people from those areas. I didn’t know about La Rose but now I do, thanks news!
We have a Ye Olde Black Boy pub where I live. Or at least we did the last time I passed it, maybe that’s been changed too and I haven’t realised. It’d be kinda ironic if they changed it, as it’s on the same street as the Wilberforce museum, aka the guy behind the end of the slave trade in Britain.
Council: ‘we need to rename this street’
Public: ‘why?’
Council: ‘because it’s offensive’
Public: ‘to whom?’
Council: ‘black people’
Public: ‘it refers to chimney sweeps, not black people’
Council: ‘oh, well we’re still taking offence on someone else’s behalf anyway, so just change in anyway’
If it costs 180k to change a sign something is fundamentally wrong with the civil service.
Putting apart controversy of a name, those changes are very, very costly for occupants of houses on that address, especially as ( it looks like) it wasn’t them who wanted to change it name and it was them who opposed it.
£300 is not enough to change a set of documents, not to mention time lost.
We had a pub in our local village called ‘the black boy’ which had a black child on the sign so there was little ambiguity about its meaning.
Whatever next? Soon they’ll be changing “grabcunt lane” to something more pc
“the new name – which pays tribute to Black publisher John La Rose”
Mr La Rose will forever be associated with the expression “black boy”, a dubious honour that strikes me as in bad taste. I question the wit of those who made this decision.
Just outside of Southport there is “Ralph’s Wife’s Lane”. Old Street names are just odd.
It’s kind of weird changing the name but also ‘formerly Black Boy Lane’ it’s comical really.
From the area. Not once in all my life have I ever heard anyone say anything about the name. It’ll always be black boy lane.