FURIOUS shoppers have hit out at an interior design shop after it displayed "racist" golliwog doll key rings

An outraged customer posted a picture of the £5 key rings on interior design shop Delux's Facebook page, saying they looked like the offensive characters.

A shopper posted this picture to Facebook after being disgusted at seeing the keyrings on sale Credit: SWNS:South West News Service

Credit: Facebook

Credit: Facebook

Credit: Facebook

Other shoppers then posted their disgust that the dolls, which feature oversized red lips and large eyes, had been put up for sale.

Following a torrent of complaints the key rings have since been taken off the Bristol shop's shelves.

Since the 1980s golliwog dolls have been seen as an offensive caricature towards people of African descent, with several countries including Germany banning them.

The picture of the key rings was posted to Facebook by Lorraine Bennerman.

She wrote: "Selling golliwogs in this day and age?! Vile and racist I'm disgusted."

Other customers soon began to leave their own messages shaming the shop.

Naomi Smyth said: "Unbelievable that someone thought it was OK to sell key rings featuring racist caricatures. Haven't you ever seen the streets of Bristol?

"This is a multicultural place, treat all its people with respect and don't make them look at this outdated trash."

Lisa Travers added: "Golliwog type toys? Seriously! Are you a front for the BNP? Disgusting. Absolutely shameful. Remove them."

Interior design shop Delux, in Bristol, has been inundated with comments to its Facebook page since the picture was posted Credit: SWNS:South West News Service

And Carol O'Connell said: "It's a travesty that this shop sells golliwog products.

"These things are a racist emblem that represent a time in history when it was acceptable and encouraged to mock people of African descent and propagate negative ideas about their worth and status in the world.

"As such golliwog imagery has no place in our multicultural and diverse modern society.

"Shame on this place for ignoring the facts of racism in our history."

However, not all customers were critical about the items.

Billie Farey said: "I have a mixed race son and it isn't racist its heritage and me and my mum have stuff that represents the Golliwog era so what it's cute and it's what way you wanna interpret it!"

Sun Online has made attempts to contact Delux.

In August a Post Office pulled golliwog dolls off its shelves after being slammed by angry customers, while in October a cop faced the sack after he called a black person a "golliwog".