Re-naming SS Great Britain tourist attraction

'It has been decided', classic woke response. Why did they not go out and run a proper survey and find out what visitors thought they were coming to see?

People could also be under the misapprehension that SS refers to Hitler's Schutsstaffel!

It is, and always has been, difficult to assess how prevalent ignorance is.

Usually, museums etc. explain anything they expect the general public not to know, rather than just change designations.

oh he's not important enough that they named a university after him <massive eye roll>

JaneJudge

oh he's not important enough that they named a university after him <massive eye roll>

And after Churchill was voted the Greatest Great Britain - as Littlejohn used to bleat “you couldn’t make it up”.

They are woke idiots.

Sorry, but a sign pointing to Bristol Dockyards would not make me think of visiting them. I think the site will experience a reduction in visitors.
Why couldn't the sign read "Brunel's Steamship Great Britain"?
This is an absurd example of wokery.

What are the

Why are you blaming “wokery” rather than the ignorance of the great British public? No I wouldn't be interested in visiting a dockyard, but some people would and yes, maybe adding Brunel’s steamship Great Britain to the description would be all that is needed.

Agree 25Avalon

Neilspurgeon0

JaneJudge

oh he's not important enough that they named a university after him <massive eye roll>

And after Churchill was voted the Greatest Great Britain - as Littlejohn used to bleat “you couldn’t make it up”.

And the first in the world to build a tunnel under a navigable river ( with his father)

They are also developing the Albion Dock next door & also plans are afoot for a replica of SS Great Western. It in no way denirgrates Brunel to name the area Bristol Dockyards.
I love visiting it, there is still an authentic ambiance unlike some of its sadly overdeveloped 'shopping mall esque'counterparts.
The (mostly young)people of Bristol that I know of are friendly and keen that their lovely city is known to be inclusive and respectful of all of the workers high & low whose lives will be commemorated. As it should be IMO.

It is the most fascinating thing to visit, but I'm not sure that Bristol Dockyards has the same ring.

It is wokery because it 'has been decided' (by whom?) that visitors are more interested in tales of ordinary people than visiting an engineering feat by a genius.

Yes Brunel was a great genius eazybee - Clifton Suspension Bridge, Royal Albert Bridge across the Tamar at Saltash, Great Western Railway, Floating Harbour in Bristol, hospitals in the Crimea, SS Great Britain, SS Great Easter, SS Great Western, and on one day of the year the sun shines through Box Tunnel east of Bath and that day is Brunel’s birthday. He could have a whole museum all to himself with Bristol achievements alone.

I remember when the SS Great Britain came home to the original dry dock in which she was built in Bristol in July 1970. Crowds lined Hotwells to cheer. A lot of work has taken place since then to restore her. It is the SS Great Britain people come to see.