A series of signs have appeared on Liverpool's streets alerting people to elements of the city's links to the slave trade.
Several homemade signs have appeared around Liverpool, describing links to the trade across the city.
The signs, some of which contain the #Blacklivesmatter hashtag, have been placed at locations including Rodney Street, Blundell Street, Earle Street, Tarleton Street and Exchange Flags, though it's understood many more have been removed from other parts of the city.
One of the signs placed on railings at Exchange Flags says: "Exchange Flags - a place merchants, including slave traders, met to do business" and goes on to include several details of Liverpool's involvement in the slave trade.
The placing of homemade signs follows protests in the UK for Black Lives Matter after the unlawful killing of George Floyd by a police officer in the US.
Following an incident where the Edward Colston Statue in Bristol was thrown into the harbour during a Black Lives Matter protest, there have been calls for other statues and places with links to the slave trade to be removed and renamed or for permanent signs placed explaining their history.
In Liverpool, several signs were daubed with graffiti.
Most notably, road signs on Penny Lane were sprayed over and the word "racist" sprayed on a nearby wall by vandals who targeted the sign believing it had historical links to slave ship owner James Penny.
This claim has since been refuted by Liverpool's International Slavery Museum, saying there was no evidence of any historical link between the naming of Penny Lane and James Penny.
Earlier this year Liverpool City Council unanimously approved a motion to put up plaques around the city that will provide an "honest account" of places linked to slavery - including many of the city's most well-known streets like Parr Street, Seel Street and Bold Street.
Acting on this motion, Mayor Joe Anderson said had been delayed by the outbreak of coronavirus but talks are still ongoing with community representatives and said "debate and discussion" was needed particularly to dispel misinformation regarding the history of places and monuments.
