A SUGAR expert is to retire after calling time on a “sweet” 39-year career as a city historian.
Based at Liverpool John Moores University’s history department, local historian Ron Noon, 62, is best known for his extensive work on the closure of Vauxhall’s Tate and Lyle Love Lane sugar refinery, in 1981.
His passion for Liverpool’s “sweet” history resulted in a film being made on Love Lane, giving a voice and continued history to those workers who were made redundant from the factory.
Confirming his retirement, the devout Evertonian and father-of-four said getting the film made was his “finest achievement”.
“It has achieved precisely what the name was intended to do, ie, ensure that by filming and recording the lives of these extraordinary ordinary lives, those lives would live on.”
