social media show the signs of the famous street, immortalised by The Beatles, sprayed over with paint. The word Penny has been blanked out from the signs – which are known to be a hit with music fans and tourists.
Graffiti with the word 'racist' has also been sprayed on a wall behind one of the signs, while the words 'Penny was a slave trader' have been sprayed near another of the road signs.
The graffiti comes after suggestions were made on social media that the street was named after a prominent slave ship owner named James Penny.
However, as our sister paper the Liverpool Echo reports, this is widely disputed, with local politicians and historians saying there is no evidence this is where the street name derives from.
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