Ian Prowse is one of my third year students who happens to be an excellent lead singer/songwriter with the band Amsterdam and you can find his best song on THE PROJECT section of our website. (Go back to HOME PAGE and hit THE PROJECT then scroll down to bottom of page.) I asked him to describe this composition so that I could tell the delegates at the Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA) conference in Chicago on May 28th 2009 that THE TRAIN has arrived at “the City of Big Shoulders” too.
Posted by Ron Noon in Beyond The Lane on Thursday, May 28th 2009
Some of you will have viewed the interview with Bobby on our “What is sugar” section, but what makes this guy so special needs a broader brush and “contextualising” at the very least. Like Albert and John and the other boys and girls from the whitestuff he’s another “extraordinary ordinary person” that this site exists to celebrate.
Posted by Ron Noon in On The Lane on Thursday, May 14th 2009
I’ve just typed out a lovely poem from Joe, one of the “boys” who was on the B or Barmy shift. See what you think and Joe is the one next to Albert with a pint of “sugar in solution”!
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Posted by Ron Noon in On The Lane on Friday, March 27th 2009
Ron Noon has been invited to give a talk on Love Lane Lives to the World Affairs Group at Keele University tonight at 7.30pm.
Posted by Ron Noon in Beyond The Lane on Thursday, March 12th 2009
Brave, sage John Maclean has passed away but the funeral service at Springwood Crematorium, Allerton, was a life affirming and celebratory gathering of family and friends that THE SCRIBE would have been proud of.
Posted by Ron Noon in On The Lane on Saturday, March 07th 2009