The Sugar Girls - new book about Tate & Lyle's female workers in Silvertown

[Stan Dyson]

Yes Serena, I well recall the barbers shop in North Woolwich Road, it was right next door to Ted Mannings fish shop.  I always had my hair cut there throughout the 1950's.  It was run by Charlie Allen and Jack Monroe and it was the only barbers that services the eleven roads in our West Silvertown Hamlet.

[hadders42]

Hi Stan speaking of the barbers shop i used to get my hair cut at Archies along the Albert road,he had only the old hand clippers one style short back and sides and some times they used to pull your hair!He had a collection of mugs in the shop in glass cases hundreds he had they would be worth a fortune now i guess. I used to go to Kays also over S Woolwich near the Granada italian barbers electric clippers too (i had plenty of hair then)Any idea Stan what the barbers was in Pier road N Woolwich?and also there was one in Wyatts yard and the barbers daughter used to cut hair too their names are eluding me at the moment
                                    J hadders42

[serena7]

Hello Stan Jack Munro was my uncle , my Mothers brother. One time my G/Mother my Mother 2 sisters and one son lived above that shop in one room.  As G/Dad died when my Mother was 2years old and my G/Mother to cope  but Jack the eldest took them in and cared for them.

[MBrennan]

I finished it last night and have really enjoyed it. I like the update at the end. Good to see that some of them have remained friends  

Regarding the extra photos in e-Books, there wasn't a single photo in the Kindle version which was quite disappointing. I expected them to be at the end. Maybe there is a normal e-Book version with photos? - unless it is because I have a basic £89 Kindle 

I am still baffled at a few of the reviews from people that seem to think it is a novel   - one woman said she was confused by the 1940s parts and thought they must be flashbacks  

[Duncan_Barrett]

That's strange - I think there should be photos in the main ebook as well as the individual ones.  I'll ask the publishers.  They are all on our website as well though - www.thesugargirls.com.

Best wishes,
Duncan

[MBrennan]

Thanks Duncan 

[ed styles]

Serena  Stan,
                   Just a a little gem from the time I had my Haircut at this Barbers ,was working at the top end of K.G.V.dock during the early 60's and needed a long overdue trim on my Beatle cut, so popped into the Barbers mentioned, fell asleep in the Chair only to be woken when he nicked my ear lobe with the razor.don't remember how much blood I lost ,but I went in with a white shirt and finished with adark pink one, the Barber ,( perhaps with years of practice ) reached for the Rizla's slapped one on and assured me I'd be alright.

 All the best ed

[Will.B]

Just been looking at the photo's of sugar girls in the Newham Recorder and saw one of my cousin ,suprise suprise.(She was not one of those in the book)
Also on page 8 there is a lovely poem called "A Testament to My Family" by Marie Hindmarsh (Nee Crabb).Worth a read.

[Duncan_Barrett]

A while back, someone here was asking about a Sugar Girls audiobook.  Well, it seems that there is one - but so far it is download only, not on CD. 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Sugar-Girls-Happiness-Unabridged/dp/B007PS6W84/ref=dp_olp_1

I'm not sure, but perhaps once you've downloaded it you can burn it onto a CD and listen to it that way?  Otherwise, I guess you need an iPod or something similar to listen to it. 

Best wishes,
Duncan

[Duncan_Barrett]

We had a great time with sugar girls Gladys and Eva at the Mayor's Newham Show last weekend - and they even got to meet the mayor himself! 

We've written a blog post about the event here - including a video clip of Gladys and Eva reminiscing about life at the factory:

http://www.thesugargirls.com/the-sugar-girls-at-the-mayors-newham-show/

Best wishes,
Duncan

[MickG]

There is quite a good write-up on the book "The Sugar Girls" in todays online edition of the Daily Mail with lots of photographs

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2185641/Bittersweet-life-Sugar-Girls--pictures-How-book-Tate--Lyles-East-End-factory-prompted-workers-dig-albums.html

[jplant1]

A rare chance to see into the lifestyle of the Lyles


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2193157/Heath-Hall-Super-mansion-built-Tate--Lyle-sugar-magnate-goes-sale-staggering-100m.html

[MBrennan]

No doubt it will be bought by Arab royalty  

There was another similar house in the area that is just a pile of rubble now that belonged to Lord Leverholme; the founder of Lever Brothers.  Amazing what wealth sugar & soap could bring to a few people  

http://tinyurl.com/cctkmxa

[MBrennan]

This has to be a rip-off of The Sugar Girls. Even the way it has been split into separate stories! -
  http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Sweethearts-Yorkshire-Rowntrees-ebook/dp/B00AQLL12Y/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1360805241&sr=1-2