Skip to main content

Protect Sunderland Historic Monuments

714 Comments

D
David Sayers
6 years ago

You can’t erase history

A
Anthony Hall
6 years ago

History cannot be changed, only learned from.

P
Peter Francis
6 years ago

Different times call for different attitudes but that is no reason to destroy history.

G
G Herod
6 years ago

Keep your bloody hands off our monuments

C
Carole Pullan
6 years ago

We cant erase our history. We need to learn from it.

A
Anonymous
6 years ago

History is history across the world

J
John Pullan
6 years ago

History should be protected and not destroyed because lessons can be learned from it.

J
Janet welsh
6 years ago

We must save our history for the next generation to learn and not forget our ancestry

A
Alan Graham
6 years ago

You can’t erase history whether you agree with it or not.

P
Pamela
6 years ago

you cannot erase History it has already happened good or bad

A
Angela Walker
6 years ago

History can be neither rewritten or erased. The beliefs and ways of society back then were, considered the norm and despite how generations have changed...we cannot be held accountable for that now. History notes many things that were wrong, how many women were suppressed?, treated less than dogs? assumed fit only for bearing children, prostitution, raping? What about when the Irish community were less than a dog when they ventured abroad? NO, what happened in the past is not correct, but we have all evolved through time and hopefully will continue to move forward and learn, re educate and all feel as though we belong. Removing a statue does not erase anything and the reason for erecting these statues is not in celebration of what they got wrong, but how much they got right, influenced the future, put their home towns on the map as such...made a difference. Alive today, they would no doubt look back in horror as we do....but we cannot change that. All our historical landmarks are necessary for future generations. They spark a visit, a conversation, a Google search and they LEARN something, have an opinion, share it and discuss it. They educate themselves. Removing something just teaches the future us to to act with anger, violence and disrespect to get what you want.

N
Norman hall
6 years ago

Not often I agree with Sunderland but today I do would these fools want to tear down the Staue of the miners in Washington BLack from the piti

P
Pauline Carr
6 years ago

This is our heritage and this is completely getting out of hand.

Y
Yvonne Mooney
6 years ago

idiots

D
Diana
6 years ago

Hands off our history!

D
David Calvert
6 years ago

History defines us, we cannot be selective, we are what we did!

G
Gregory McCann
6 years ago

‪“... every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”‬ ‪George Orwell, 1984‬

M
Maureen Lincoln
6 years ago

They are our history

A
Anonymous
6 years ago

Leave our statues alone

M
Muriel Madson
6 years ago

Our history, good & bad, cannot be erased