Barclay's (Martin's) Bank Doors Linked to Slavery?

[PhilipG]

Ref: Slavery links. Someone (I think on a recent Herbert Tyson Smith tour of the city centre) mentioned that a frieze on the South portico of the St. Georges Hall was removed during the restoration and not replaced due to its slavery implications. Does anyone know if this is right? It wasn't by Tyson Smith but just mentioned in passing. We were looking at HTS bronze cenotaph sculptures at the time.

That is the reason why it hasn't been replaced, but it was taken down in 1950 because it became unsafe.
Political Correctness seems to me to be an excuse not to bother going to the expense of putting it back.