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Love Lane Lives - the boys & girls from the whitestuff

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The history of sugar in Liverpool and the effects of the closure of the Tate & Lyle sugar refinery, Love Lane

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How Henry Tate really started ON THE LANE

Written by Ron Noon at 18:16 on Wednesday, March 04th 2009

“You have a new man with new equipment who, working according to modern ideas, kept himself to the front, feared no competition, faced the competition of Europe and was better for it, was not deflated and is now one of the greatest refiners.”

“Few people, even in England would immediately make the link between the Tates of Tate & Lyle…and the famous Tate Gallery on the banks of the Thames, which houses works of a number of British artists. And yet these two institutions were founded by the same man, Henry Tate, who started out as a grocer from Liverpool…Henry Tate was to achieve the feat of making a fortune in a field where competition was fierce…and providing the British nation with a symbol making him the equivalent of a Rockefeller…No small achievement for an erstwhile grocer, son of a Unitarian Clergyman.”

Phillipe Chalmin The Sugar Giant.
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The best example of ON THE LANE is not the “eulogies” above to Henry Tate but the recent comments I’ve just read by Roy Traynor and Mike Greenall. Roy was a process apprentice in 1979 and so started only two years before closure. I remember Albert E Sloane saying that he was really worried about what would happen to the young apprentices “if” the plant was closed.

Roy said that watching our film brought back great memories and mentioned fellow apprentices, John Pedleton, Glen Kearns, Lol Wainright, Paul Smith and Bob? He says that Gerry Townsend was the training manager but Mike asks whether it was Gerry TOWNLEY.