Penny Lane, made famous by the Beatles song, had its street name signs vandalized during a recent Black Lives Matter protest.
Someone spray painted ‘racist’ above the sign, thinking that the name ‘Penny’ comes from James Penny, who was one of Liverpool’s notable slave-traders, and a national figurehead against the abolition of slavery. The link between the two has been made because Liverpool’s International Museum of Slavery features Penny Lane in (what is evidently a poorly curated) exhibit about Liverpool’s links to slavery. The museum backtracked on the exhibit’s claim earlier this week, saying that the evidence linking Penny the lane and Penny the slaver is “inconclusive”. But that hasn’t stopped a local politician saying that IF the link is proven, the street could be renamed. Polly Boiko went to talk to the people of Penny Lane, to find out what they think about the controversy, surrounding the world-famous street.
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