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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Workers plan to stop sugar supply!
That was the newspaper headline exactly 30 years ago today. The refinery workers vote to picket key distribution points was taken on Day 47 of the 90 Day Redundancy Notice Period.(D47 of 90 DRNP.) Just to reinforce this new chronology, the newspaper headline was on D48 of 90 DRNP
Posted by Ron Noon in on Friday, March 11th 2011
February 2011 is the 10th annniversary of Marie Brenner’s IN THE KINGDOM OF BIG SUGAR.
When Tate & Lyle announced in July 2001 that it was selling off its Domino Sugar refinery operations in Brooklyn New York to an investment group dominated by a Cuban family with extensive cane growing interests in Florida, it hardly registered as a news story outside of the extraordinary world of sugar. Nine years later on July 1st 2010 the announcement from company headquarters, Sugar Quay in London, was that the former Sugar Giant had sold its European sugar operations to American Sugar Refining Inc. Who are the main interests behind ASR? Does that have anything to do with the Fanjuls?
Posted by Ron Noon in Beyond The Lane on Monday, February 28th 2011
Another Kayll Road Public Library Blog
There was a good deal of material which I did not manage to upload yesterday because of “problems” outlined in the main text. That included the Hansard account of the Parliamentary debate, but now that I’m sitting in a warm Public Library in Sunderland opposite Sunderland General Hospital and around the corner from my mother in law’s house where we are staying for the weekend, I can upload and blog for as long as Gail allows me.
Posted by Ron Noon in On The Lane on Friday, February 18th 2011
“Save Our Sugar” and Hillside Secondary School
Here’s a great new video for our website, as fresh and vital now as it was when filmed during the specialist Sugar Week held at Hillside School back in September 2009…
Posted by Warren in Sucrose blogs from Hillside High School on Thursday, February 17th 2011
The debate in the House of Commons over the closure of Love Lane 30 years ago TONIGHT
In the last blog we found out that the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher did not do delegations, especially those from the Congress of Merseyside. What were the responses back home in Liverpool to such a snub? What would be the social and economic costs of eliminating a prominent Liverpool landmark?
Posted by Ron Noon in On The Lane on Thursday, February 17th 2011