Love Lane Lives
The history of sugar in Liverpool and the effects of the closure of the Tate & Lyle sugar refinery, Love Lane
The Love Lane Lives Weblog
The Trinity Primary School and unfinished sugar business
Leon Seth and I had a wonderful start to 2008 working with two wonderful school teachers from Trinity school Vauxhall and the even more wonderful young boys and girls from the whitestuff in YEAR 5. We go back to the school this morning to get the children’s final views on the project they did last year which will soon be viewable on this website.
Posted by Ron Noon in On The Lane on Thursday, July 09th 2009
Roger McGough was once a boy from the Whitestuff!
I’m always curious when I bump into “big Scouse names” about what makes them tick and whether they are true cultural ambassadors for a city that has a labour history based around the three Ds of Diversity, Dissent and a Democratic spirit of involvement. My chance “sales” meeting with Roger McGough last week was testimony not only to his ample street and cultural credentials but also of his potential as an ALUMNI of LOVE LANE LIVES. You’ll see why when you read on.
Photo credit Norman McBeath
Posted by Ron Noon in On The Lane on Sunday, June 28th 2009
Beat the Beet, Keep the Cane
Re-published here is the draft of an essay that was published in ETHICAL CONSUMER magazine Issue 116, March/April 2009. I chose the title because that’s the mantra that the girls and boys from the whitestuff sang out loud in their vainglorious efforts to keep LOVE LANE open.
Posted by Ron Noon in Beyond The Lane on Friday, June 26th 2009
Mike Greenall’s apprenticeship to sugar.
This is a great commentary I’ve just received from a former “sugar boiler” who started his apprenticeship on the Lane in the year of David Lean’s Dr Zhavago and precisely when the Beatles appeared at the Shea Stadium, the Home of the New York Mets baseball team. I think LFC may have won the cup in that year too!
Posted by Ron Noon in On The Lane on Wednesday, June 10th 2009
Bitter Sweet Pensioner Stories
This is an essay I wrote back in 2004 which was published in the North West Labour History Journal in September 2006. It illustrates just how anachronistic the once all too familiar comment “a crackin’ firm to work for” had become. Liverpool refinery workers had worked in the Lane when the “family spirit” meant something!
Posted by Ron Noon in Beyond The Lane on Wednesday, June 10th 2009