The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #78748 Message #1422082
Posted By: Cats
27-Feb-05 - 02:36 AM
Thread Name: Padstow Darkie Days
Subject: RE: Padstow Darkie Days
Milk Monitor - One of the merrymakers has told me, no it's not me, that Channel 4 TV had a news crew there filming as they had been given a tip off that there was going to be a huge news story. Had there been then I'm sure that they would have run the story. The style of make up and words to songs which may have been deemed offensive were changed quite a few years ago because the people of Padstow didn't want to cause offence to anyone. Ziggy, the West Indian postman who lived in Padstow, used to go out with them and he saw nothing to cause offence. After the complaints by Bernie Grant the enquiry that ensued also found it not to be racist. The press are having a field day perpetuating the myth of how it used to be.