STEEPED in history, the oldest pub in the Royal Burgh of Linlithgow has quenched the thirst of countless customers who have been regaled with the touching story of how a dog’s loyalty inspired its name.
While for those locals born within the sound of the bells ringing from St Michael’s Church, there is deep pride in being known as “Black Bitches”.
But now the pub chain that owns the historic town’s Black Bitch Tavern has revealed controversial plans to erase centuries of heritage, after deciding the traditional name has racist and offensive connotations.
The move to change the name of the 17th-century pub to the Black Hound Tavern has sparked outrage among locals, who regard being known as a “black bitch” as the ultimate honour.
It has led to demands for the Greene King pub chain to rethink its decision, and a warning that locals will simply ignore the move and continue to call the pub by its historic name.
The town’s black bitch reference relates to a centuries-old story about a prisoner whose black greyhound remained loyal to him while he served his punishment, tied to a tree on an island in Linlithgow Loch.
The black bitch became a symbol of loyalty and faithfulness. An image of the greyhound tied to an oak tree features on the town’s coat of arms, and a sculpture of a black greyhound was recently unveiled in its High Street.
Regardless, the Suffolk-based pub chain – which prides itself on its 200 years heritage – has insisted that modern sensitivities and the way language has evolved mean that despite the name is no longer appropriate.
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This world is crazy. A female dog is a bitch.
I am black. I think it’s horrible that females are called the “B” word. I never heard My dad use that term towards women.
Nowadays, everybody calls each other that name. If I saw the restaurant without knowing the story, and doubt there are any black females in that town, It still wouldn’t offend me. I would go inside and have a drink.
The name had a double meaning from the beginning. One to hide and one to front.
Imagine this place not burning in Chicago or Atlanta ?
Getting stuck with a name one dislikes is a Bitch…..
woke-walkers are sleepwalkers.
thinking they are free,
on the contrary.
Have you ever been arrested for not complying ?
That is the entry fee.
“the traditional name has racist and offensive connotations.”
Oh yes!
Especially when weaponized by the divide-and-rule culture destroyers.
Divisive BS the pub sign (below) clearly has a picture of a black dog on it presumably a bitch hence the name. Useful woke idiots are wittingly or unwittingly furthering a program of applied cultural marxism intended to destroy our nations character and history replacing it with politically correct bile pathetic business “leaders” go along with this. Given the securitisation & debt problems Greene King have you would think they have better things to do.
https://i2-prod.edinburghlive.co.uk/incoming/article22337402.ece/ALTERNATES/s810/0_The-black-bitchjpeg.jpg
AdeUK2, But you kept and protected a Monarch family, that consistently predated on the Black race, …and enabled the black robes, to do what they do also.
very nasty stuff, do you deny it ?
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