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Monuments have been subject to an audit in Wales since the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, when a statue of slave trader Thomas Picton was removed from Cardiff City Hall. The audit's ...
A monument to war hero Sir Thomas Picton will have a sign added to reference his links to slavery. Executive board members of Carmarthenshire council approved the move for the Grade II-listed ...
Carmarthenshire County Council received a petition of more than 20,000 signatures calling on them to change the name of the monument honouring Sir Thomas Picton in Carmarthen. Picton was the ...
Carpenters placed a wooden box over the marble statue of Sir Thomas Picton at Cardiff City Hall on Friday. Cardiff councillors had voted to remove the memorial in response to the Black Lives ...
Clarence Thomas Picton, 79, Spring Township, passed away Friday, Nov. 19, 2010, at the Lebanon Veterans Hospital. Born in Pottsville on Sept. 16, 1931, he was a son of the late Clarence T.
Sir Thomas Picton, to be removed from various streets and places, like Picton Street, Laventille; Picton Road, Sangre Grande; Picton Street, Woodbrook; Picton Street, San Juan; Picton Street ...
The town was named for Sir Thomas Picton, who was a British Army officer and one of the Duke of Wellington’s comrades in arms who was killed during the Battle of Waterloo. He was also commonly ...