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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Giants and the leaving of Liverpool
Everyone familiar with Love Lane Lives know that on April 22nd 1981 the Sugar Giant made on Merseyside by former Chorley grocer, Henry Tate, closed down Liverpool Love Lane. The leaving and grieving of Liverpool belied the romantically named refinery but who could have imagined that exactly 31 years to the day, tens of thousands of visitors to our city would lament the departure of a little girl Giant, who over this past weekend has romantically reconnected to a port viewed as “the hub of creativity, with passionate friendly people, and rich in maritime heritage and beautiful architecture”?
Posted by Ron Noon in on Sunday, April 22nd 2012
East End London Sugar Girls and North End Liverpool Sugar Girls!
As an intrepid sugar buster I’m off down to London today to attend an event at the Bishopsgate Institute in association with the Raphael Samuel History Centre, that is focused around the imminent launch of an exciting book about the Sugar Girls of the East end of London. East End London Sugar Girls may soon be as big as CALL THE MIDWIFE! What about Liverpool’s own North End Sugar Girls?
Posted by Ron Noon in on Monday, March 19th 2012
Barny Murray and friends in the New Holt pub just before Christmas 2011
I was with Barny, Joey Mcgovern, Mike Boyle, Big “Tone” and the inimitable Albert E Sloane for a boys from the whitestuff get together and I took some smashing photographs of that night. He and Bobby Austin, the best sugar boiler in the business, will be sorely missed.
From Left to Right, Mike, Joey, Barny, Big Tone, Albert
Posted by Ron Noon in on Saturday, January 07th 2012
A toast of love and respect to our absent friends Bobby Austin and Barny Murray
On Tuesday night after travelling back from the North East in appalling driving conditions I discovered that two wonderful guys had passed away. Bobby Austin and Barny Murray will be buried on Wednesday and Thursday of next week and I want to try to write up my thoughts and memories of these two lovely guys.
Posted by Ron Noon in on Friday, January 06th 2012
Bitter Sweet Memories: “MEMORY IS LIFE!”
It is nearly seven months since my last blog! What has happened to my sugar memory during this sabatical period? Anyway I’ve now returned to the lonely life of the blogger to continue with my achingly addictive fix on inspirational stories about the boys and girls from the whitestuff. This comeback blog includes some references to our American cousins in the former Domino Sugar Refinery in Brooklyn.
Posted by Ron Noon in on Monday, November 21st 2011