To be fair, the ship is still SS Great Britain.
However, the brown signs will now read Bristol Dockyards .
The reasons - it's been decided more people will be interested in the tales of ordinary people who travelled on her, than the ship's genius designer Isambard Kingdon Brunel & the ship herself, the first iron-hulled to cross the Atlantic and the first propellor driven to cross the Atlantic.
Also - you couldn't make it up - visitors may be under a misapprehension that SS Great Britain stands for "Slave Ship" Great Britain. Considering that neither Brunel nor his ships had any connection with the slave trade, why not just spell out "Steam Ship Great Britain" on the signs? Many people do want to see this iconic ship, which has been a major Bristol landmark for 50 years, & to be honest the surrounding docks aren't a patch on Gloucester.
Aren't they taking things too far?
Where did you want to move to when you were growing up?
Reducing contact because my heart just isn't in it.
