Love Lane Lives
The history of sugar in Liverpool and the effects of the closure of the Tate & Lyle sugar refinery, Love Lane
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Dull faced manuscripts on Sugar Refining
Tate & Lyle has now sold it’s European sugar refining business to American Refining Company Inc, owned by Flo. Sun Inc based in Florida and owned by Cuban Americans Alfie and Pepi Fanjul! Perhaps any dull faced manuscripts on sugar refining and the “process” can be sent over to the Fanjuls West Palm Beach headquarters?
(If you have n’t heard anything about the Fanjuls before, have a look at the first blog I wrote on Friday November 28th 2008. It was titled “Sugar Film making: Cease and Desist”.)
I can not resist the temptation to show again that brilliant cartoon from THE GUARDIAN and Kipper!
Posted by Ron Noon in on Wednesday, July 07th 2010
Tate & Lyle, one time Imperial Sugar Giant sings “Bye, Bye Sugar, Bye Bye”!
In a Corporate profile of April 1989 Tate & Lyle was described as “the world’s largest sugar company” and listed as “the 15th largest foreign investor in the United States”. Today we woke up to the announcement that a sugar free era dawns for Tates. I wonder what John Maclean would have made of it? There he is below on the left sat next to his great pal Albert E Sloane.
Posted by Ron Noon in Beyond The Lane on Thursday, July 01st 2010
Today 22nd of April 2010 is the 29th anniversary of the Closure of Henry Tate’s mother plant
On April 22nd 1981 the mother plant in Henry Tate’s sugar dynasty, Liverpool Love Lane closed down. (The ariel photograph above was taken in 1958)
Posted by Ron Noon in on Thursday, April 22nd 2010
Mr Cube went down to Georgia
I’ve been in Athens, Georgia USA talking about the downsized Mr Cube and could hardly resist the urge to say a little bit more about how the (so called) “socialist hydra” he helped defeat in 1949/1950, is nothing to compare with BIG SUGAR in America today.
Posted by Ron Noon in Beyond The Lane on Sunday, March 28th 2010
2010, Bloggers Block, Keele WAGs and THE real PRICE OF SUGAR!
The blogger has been unblocked and so here we go again for 2010.
Below is a picture of the cane fields and the remarkable champion of the poor and dispossessed, Father Christopher Hartley.
Posted by Ron Noon in Sugar and Globalisation on Thursday, February 04th 2010