Loads of Tate & Lyle pics here: http://inacityliving.piczo.com/?g=43514575&cr=7
Local kids would swim in the canal nearby, a part called the 'Scaldies' which was warmed by the by products pumped out by Tates.
The Bridge pub on Chisenhale st bridge was known locally as the fly house as workers who drank in there were covered in sugar, thus attracting flies.
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Generations of families worked in there. The site is now part of the Eldonian Village housing co-operation which kept a lot of families from the nearby tenements living in the same community.
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