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Love Lane Lives - the boys & girls from the whitestuff

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 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”.
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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.

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Posted by Ron Noon in on Tuesday, July 21st 2009

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.

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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.
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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.

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Posted by Ron Noon in Beyond The Lane on Friday, June 26th 2009

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