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
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
Welcome to Chicago and a song by the lead singer of AMSTERDAM
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
VIVA BOBBY AUSTIN
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
Sweet Memories by a Punch and Judy poet
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”!
Posted by Ron Noon in On The Lane on Friday, March 27th 2009