Liverpool History Society talk on Tate & Lyle Refinery workers, Sunday 22nd February

Ron Noon has been invited by the Liverpool History Society to give a talk this Sunday entitled “Love Lane Lives: A public history of Tate & Lyle’s Liverpool Refinery Workers, 1872-1981.”  It starts as 2pm and will be held in the Grace Room on the 1st Floor of the Cornerstone Building, Hope at Everton, Liverpool Hope University, Shaw St. For those of you who know that part of Liverpool it is the old SFX parish opposite the old Collegiate School. Everyone is welcome. http:www.liverpoolhistorysociety.org.uk/Talks.html

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

Lets make 2009 a great year for the website and Love Lane lives

A belated Happy and Healthy New Year to everyone. This first blog of 2009 is mainly about the comments I have had so far on the site and also the invitation for more people to write in and keep the lane LIVE.

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Posted by Ron Noon in on Thursday, January 29th 2009

Ron Noon radio interview -  Love Lane Lives on City Talk

Ron was interviewed on Saturday 20th December 2008 by Margi Clarke on Liverpool’s City Talk station.

Click here to hear the segment in which Ron talks about the Love Lane Lives project and his involvement in promoting the history of Tate & Lyle.

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Posted by Warren in News on Friday, January 02nd 2009

Patrick Branigan

We lost Pat (Paddy) Branigan in August of 2008 and the star man (once a wonderful footballer with the Crystal Club) is sadly missed by his lovely family and and by all of   our sugar gang who meet up every month in the PUNCH & JUDY by Lime Street Station. Our love and memories of this wonderful “sweetfighter” live on as does his great contribution to the film.

That’s Pat in between Ron on the left and Tony on the right.

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Posted by Ron Noon in On The Lane on Wednesday, December 31st 2008

Liverpool, the Bajan sugar Revolution and the era of the Sugar Standard

Sugar and Slaves transformed Liverpool from a sleepy insignificant fishing village, eclipsed by Chester for over four hundred years but the real “revolution” took place in Barbados! How many people know that and how many would use the word “revolutionary” to describe such a simple taken for granted everyday commodity?

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Posted by Ron Noon in Beyond The Lane on Monday, December 29th 2008