Monument to war hero linked to slave trade to stay put in Carmarthen after public vote Robert Harries & Ian Lewis
A controversial monument in Carmarthen erected in honour of a British officer killed at the battle of Waterloo with links to the slave trade will not be removed or renamed, it has been decided. Picton Monument has stood in Picton Terrace in Carmarthen since 1888. However, a campaign was launched earlier this year to have the monument removed less than a day after a statue of slave trader Edward Colston was pulled down and thrown into the harbour by protesters in Bristol.