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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Hillside Secondary School, Bootle takes on the White Stuff in Specialist Science week!
Hillside Specialist Science and Languages School, has just registered outstanding GCSE results with 91% of pupils achieving 5 or more A to C grades and next week I am delighted to announce that it will dedicate its annual specialist week (21st to the 25th September) to SUGAR!
Posted by Ron Noon in on Monday, September 14th 2009
SUGAR and GLOBALISATION
This is the beginning of a new category of blogs to supplement ON THE LANE and BEYOND THE LANE. Globalisation is the buzzword of our era and has come from nowhere to be everywhere. That is the story of sugar too!
Posted by Ron Noon in Sugar and Globalisation on Sunday, September 13th 2009
The AMTRAK view of Mr Cube on the eve of his 60th birthday party
I’ll be on a train to Salt Lake City to watch Everton play the MLS All Stars when Mr Cube reaches 60 so here are a few more thoughts on the significance of tomorrow’s anniversary.
Posted by Ron Noon in Beyond The Lane on Monday, July 27th 2009
The Litigious consequences of Mr Cube
After flagging up Mr Cube’s imminent 60th birthday party, I thought that this detailed essay which appeared in the North West Labour History Journal in 2006 would emphasise how “History’s most famous sugar lump” proved a very adept friend of the Conservatives and their supporters in Fleet Street. It is also a telling reminder of how, to quote our Foreign Secretary’s father Ralph Milliband, “neither in resources nor…in energy and determination” was this radical post war Labour Government “a match for business interests and their PR experts”.
Posted by Ron Noon in on Tuesday, July 21st 2009
Mr Cube: July 28th 1949 to ?
Below the signature on Albert’s letter from John Walker announcing the junking of the biennial Christmas parties in 1999 was an impertinent cartoon figure called Mr Cube, and it was this animated sugar lump that tubo charged my sugar project and made it a campaigning one! He was an iconic symbol of Tate & Lyle’s amazingly successful anti-nationalisation campaign in 1949/1950 and until he was “retired” by their HRM people appeared regularly on the nation’s breakfast tables. His first outing was in the Evening Standard on July 28th 1949 and next Tuesday July 28th 2009 there are clearly some sugar lump stories and bitter sweet lessons to be learned.
Posted by Ron Noon in on Tuesday, July 21st 2009