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
Beat the Beet, Keep the Cane
Re-published here is the draft of an essay that was published in ETHICAL CONSUMER magazine Issue 116, March/April 2009. I chose the title because that’s the mantra that the girls and boys from the whitestuff sang out loud in their vainglorious efforts to keep LOVE LANE open.
Posted by Ron Noon in Beyond The Lane on Friday, June 26th 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
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.
Posted by Ron Noon in Beyond The Lane on Thursday, March 12th 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.
Posted by Ron Noon in Beyond The Lane on Tuesday, March 03rd 2009