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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 Boys and Girls from the Whitestuff travel to Keele University

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.

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Posted by Ron Noon in Beyond The Lane on Thursday, March 12th 2009

Another Eulogy to John Maclean

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.

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Posted by Ron Noon in On The Lane on Saturday, March 07th 2009

How Henry Tate really started ON THE LANE

Henry Tate was a successful grocer by the middle of the nineteenth century but by its end he was Britain’s Rockefeller and much of that was due to his time ON THE LANE. What follows below is only a brief couple of quotations but it firms up our categories of ON THE LANE and BEYOND THE LANE

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Posted by Ron Noon in On The Lane on Wednesday, March 04th 2009

The Local/Global dimensions to sugar blogs

This project was inspired ON THE LANE but like the granulated crystals produced in Henry Tate’s mother refinery, stretches way BEYOND THE LANE! The history of LOVE LANE and the wider world of sugar were inextricably linked but we’ve decided that a better “division of labour” in terms of how the “blogs” are produced would be to separate out ON and BEYOND THE LANE stories.

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Posted by Ron Noon in Beyond The Lane on Tuesday, March 03rd 2009

Brave, sage,  John Maclean has passed away. Rest in Peace

I have just heard the sad news that one of my two main sugar mentors, John Maclean died yesterday surrounded by his close family. He was a wonderful man, former City and County Councillor as well as the SCRIBE who penned so many letters and essays about the struggle to keep Love Lane refinery open. He will not be forgotten and his role in the film and in inspiring this project ensures that his legacy will live on.

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John Maclean is at the far right of the photograph and his friend Albert E Sloane on the far left.

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Posted by Ron Noon in on Friday, February 20th 2009

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