The White horse Inn, in Essex is raided for dolls.
 

Don’t tell anyone but I’ve got several pairs of white pillow cases

Yes bound to happen

Could upset some


"golliwog dolls (black minstrel dolls)"

I remember they were still a thing at my School, obviously the 00's/early 10's were a different time just to explain to any younger members why people bringing this stuff to School weren't getting their heads kicked in/or expelled.

I haven't heard about them in years though.:laugh:

Yes if you have a doll
it is best to hide it.



Sign Of the Times.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...Cart_cover.png

A USA book way back in 1901.


Also

[In February 2009, in an off-air conversation
at the BBC, Carol Thatcher,
the daughter of former
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher,
referred to the black French tennis player
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, who was competing in
the Australian Open, as looking like a golliwog]


We have not seen her again on Media,


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golliwog

Had they called the POlice themselves to say they had been burgled zero cops would have turned up.

YOu know the drill here - the senior police officer could not give a toss about golliwogs but they did fear a media backlash due to racial hysteria and social media that would land the blame with them

i'm pretty sure there was the very same story about this pub or similar a few years ago

Yes there was, the dolls were investigated by the local.council but the owners were allowed to display them because they wernt breaking the law. Not sure why its suddenly seen to be breaking the law now.:shrug:

Nice pub as it happens, been in their loads.

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/04...0873628441.jpg
[Benice Ryley, 61, was quizzed by six officers
after police received an anonymous complaint
about the golliwog display
at The White Hart Inn in Grays, Essex]

[I WON'T get rid of my golliwogs: Pub owners vow
to put dolls back behind the bar after they
were seized by cops - despite complaints
over five years from customers branding
the 'racist' decorations a hate crime
Benice Ryley, 61, and her husband Chris, 65,
had five officers enter their pub]

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/04...0873580790.jpg


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...e-display.html

Random little quaint seaside towns are sometimes a bit "frozen in time", one I went to fairly recently in the West Country had loads for sale :laugh:

Yes,
appears to be some stock of them banned dolls.

The Britannia Coconut Dancers performed at the weekend in East Lancashire

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.u...ds-article-962
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/04...0969191546.jpg
https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.u...perform-bacup/

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