Love Lane Lives
The history of sugar in Liverpool and the effects of the closure of the Tate & Lyle sugar refinery, Love Lane
The Girls & Boys from the Whitestuff
"The remarkable thing about this project was not just sugar, an extraordinary but much taken for granted commodity but the extraordinary lives of ordinary refinery workers... This project has lots of historical curiosity value but it has wider ramifications for ongoing debates on the politics of food and globalization. It's also a vital record of the people who struggled against a major multinational to protect not just their own livelihoods but a whole community."
Ron Noon
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My Dad gerry hughes worked at Tates for over 30 yrs and was a shop steward. For most of my teenage years he was fighting the closure and I remember him going to Brussels. My uncle Jack Barrow also worked there. I remember the great time we had a kids going to the panto at the empire, my dad ending up as the wellfare officer and organising day trips and how he lost his job at the closure. Mostly though I rememeber the irony when he got sa job as clerk of works for the company who demolished it on his 60th Birthday. His mates were Tommy Brown and Gerry Townley. Dad sadly passed away in 2001 with Asbestosis and Lung cancer,caused by working in the boiler house of Tates. I was unable to see the film as it wouldnt upload so if anyone could point me in the direction to get to see it I would be grateful.