Love Lane Lives
The history of sugar in Liverpool and the effects of the closure of the Tate & Lyle sugar refinery, Love Lane
A Happy and Healthy Christmas to everyone, from the Boys and Girls from Love Lane Lives.
Written by Ron Noon at 23:00 on Thursday, December 24th 2009
I popped around to see Albert E Sloane earlier on today but he was n’t in. Either that or the bell is not working. Maybe I ought to have phoned him in advance, but I know I’ll see him early in the New Year and I still felt good as I put his Christmas card through the letter box and slipped back to my car. This man means so much to me and not just as one of my most important sugar mentors. He is that and more but at this time of the year I’m sure Albert is not reflecting on his younger University friend and his own “sweet fightin’ youth” but on the absent friends that sadly are no longer around. This site is called LOVE LANE LIVES to ensure that at least we can keep their memories and their spirit as resonant as the festivities that we will be engaged in on the morrow!
Tommy Owens died earlier on this year and that’s Tommy stuck in the middle between Patrick “Paddy” Brannigan and Albert. He’s so much missed by his family and by the Punch and Judy gang that he organised and kept together for so many years. “If” it had not been for Tommy this site would not have been possible.