Tate and Lyle

[John Arton]

A number of members sailed on the sugar boats bringing raw sugar to the Tate and Lyle factory in Vic docks to be processed there in to granulated sugar, sugar cubes and even golden syrup.
I was surprised to see that Tate and Lyle no longer produce any sugar based products at their London factory, it is now just a research facility where they work on alternative sweetener products, mostly plant based. The actual sugar products have been moved off to Tate and Lyle (sugars) a totally separate outfit.
Tate and Lyle can trace their origins back to Liverpool.
Rgds
J.A.

[vic mcclymont]

Lyle side of the business can trace its history back to Greenock.
Lyle wanted to build a new refinery on the vacant ground at the Eastern end of the James Watt Dock, council said no. Lyle gave them the two fingured salute. 1921 the merger took and Tate Lyle formed.
Vic

[Red Lead Ted]

John, I can remember Tate and Lyle here in Liverpool very well brought Demerara back from the West Indies many times a smell that will never leave you, It wasn't only Tate and Lyle who employed 1000s on Merseyside they had spin of companies, Pendleton's Toffee comes to mind straight away, They also had an ice cream company they kept afloat name eludes me, Of course it was more a part of your everyday diet back in the day with Diabetes running riot in this country not so today. Great memories you stirred up for me with this post Regards Terry.

[Dennis McGuckin]

I remember once working by. I was on a bus that stopped outside Tate and Lyle.I was still a bit on the shy side.A bunch of girl workers*got on the bus.They made me so embarrassed that I got off the bus long before my stop.

[vic mcclymont]

Well Dennis, you were lucky that you were just embarrassed.
Many stories circulated in Greenock about the treatment given to young apprentices who had the misfortune to encounter them in their place of work.
Vic

[Tony Taylor]

Well Dennis, you were lucky that you were just embarrassed.
Many stories circulated in Greenock about the treatment given to young apprentices who had the misfortune to encounter them in their place of work.
Vic

same same Haggies rope works at Willington (Wallsend), only, you wouldn't have made it off the bus ha ha.

[happy daze john in oz]

I think this post was only put on to sweeten some of the members.

But the rope works not far from Sunderland, an education in how the female can describe some aspects of sexual behavior you could ever imagine.

Poor Den, such an inocent child having to put up with that, and n ow being chased by Cougars.
Must be something in the way he looks maybe!!!!

[Doc Vernon]

Lyle,s Golden Syrup the only one to eat, i have always loved it.

Look at this old Tin for sale Wow! should have kept all mine .
But still eat it these days always available at the Super Market!
Cheers

Vintage 1930's 2lb Lyle's Golden Syrup Tin Really | Etsy

[Ken Trehearne]

Strange how company names and products bring back childhood memories. T & L paper bags of sugar had printed on "Untouched by human hands". As kids we questioned whose hands really had touched the contents. Never did find out.
Ken T
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[j.sabourn]

The one I remember Ken was the 1d. Oxo cube it was always 1d. As long as I can remember. Until..!!!!!§§??? Decimalisation when 240 pence to the pound was suddenly 100 . Then wham the old oxo cube was suddenly 2.5p. Who says there was no huge fiddles on the change over ?
However re. Tate and Lisles when they are mentioned I always tend to think of Lisles as think , and I maybe wrong, it was them who took over the Baron Line ? If not Baron Line was some other well known tramp company.
As regards untouched by human hands if you got through your childhood with no skin complaints then you were lucky. Cheers JS