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But together they built one of the world's great business fortunes.

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SOLDIERS CARVED A HILLSIDE

-Now There's Another 'War'

ING

By J. W. TAYLOR

J'

George III's

Wilishire's

Bratton horse,

Koldiers, bored with about which the ston

has arisen, came

waiting for the Napoleonic prosperity invasion that never happened formi.

bolier down to

1 rather mutilated

In early day it had a

to Britain, carved a hugo moon 011 Its tais, suggesting model of their king on religious symbolism, but in horseback on the hillside in

1770 they had it recut and sight of Weymouth and 175-feer,

from 100 feet, to altering its shape from added another to Britain's tort-horse to the "blood kind" collection of White Horses, and eliminating the moon During the late war they symbol. Legend connects the

Bratton Horse were all turfed over for victory of Ethandune-Edding

with "Alfred's security reasons.

ton, three miles away-but Much concerning this hillside experts reckon that it was cut nriistry

has happened since in the early Iron Agertatz LONG FORGOTTEN

these soldiers livened up tho country scene, and now there

hectic fight with

save

Wiltshire not long ago found

powers-that-be

the It had a long-forgotten while White Horses of England which horse. Mr. Anthony Hurd, M.P., dot this hillsides up and down took over a farm near Marl- the land. It has already ad borough. A ploughman operating

vanced as

Minister's

for as the Prime on some hitherto untouched

desks,

land unearthed the consequen!

120 foot upon the

presentation of the figure of a white horse.

"Thero latest petition. This opposes White Horses in the north

are no very ancient plans to build a cement works

England.

ucar

of

Tho Hambleton

tho Bratton Horso Westbury, Wiltshire. The pro- Horse above Thirsk, in York- tagonists

are hopeful, for it shire, is an eighteenth century was only last year that they effort requiring frequent lime- caused the BBC to drop the washing to keep its colour. Iden of erecting a television And even in the south, the

Lylo sentor sent his boy to of Alfred the Great, but prob. cut about 1780"

sing

relay station near the White majority of the figures now in Horse in Uffington, Herkshire. existence are lea than two

Here is the

the

old, Onc centuries

striking White

atory Horses-some of them example is the 150 foot Cher-

them said to commemorate

hill White Horse, which was, victories work in a lawyer's office.

on the slopes But he soon tred of that. The ably dating to the days before of the hill known ar Oldbury. lad went back to his father and the Romans came, others fairly Calne, Wiltshire--on the orders Castle between Avebury and recent, all objects of consider of Dr Christopher Alop, learned how to make barrels.

able local patriotism and other Calne. It is visible on a clear The father had dabbled from hillside figures of Britain.: time to time in shipowning, and SHINING WHITE

day for 25 miles, this encouraged young Abram There are 15 white horses in riding figures. An exception is Fow of tho horses have to engage, in a few small ship-Wiltshire alone and ping transactions" on his own several other counties mostly George III carved on a hillside more in the equestrian figure of King account.

tho south of England in sight of Weymouth, in 1800 where you only need to strip by soldiers who Another patent came Henry siderable business in which the hillside.

Gradually he built up a con- tho Jurf off the chalk of the with walting

were bored. Tate's way in 1876. That was import or sugar from the West white figures

to produce

there for the the "Langen", process for mak- Indies ligured prominently,

shining Napoleonie invasion that never visible ing cubes.

miles away. Countryfolk usual- It superseded the

many came, old sugar loaves and abolished

y assure the visitor

Warwickshire has no chalks, Six yours alter Henry Tate were cut to celebrate victories red, the colour

that they sugar cutting in grocers' shops had gone into

to. Its one horse, at Tyscoe, sugar and in the home.

refining of Alfred the Grent

of the under- Abram Lyle took a similar step. Danes more

than 1.000 years by trees, it is

over the tying rock. Now nearly obscured Soon "Tate's cubes" swept the He bought a partnership in the ago. Some are definitely much memorate the death of "King, country. Before long a new Globe Sugar Refining Company. younger than that, but others are maker" Earl For modern refining was then refinery had to be opened on

of Warwick, at' That small business did not pretty certainly, much

older. barely in its infancy. It was the Themes at Silvertown

the Battle of Barnet, 1471. Uffington's satisfy him. He decided that if feet long, was long reputed in not a complete monopoly of the

white horse still the custom to

These horces, however, have bucket of bullock's

meet the demand. pour

he was to make a success he Berkshire blood into the molten raw sugar.

must be nearer a big market,

Alfred's victory at Ashdown in on the Dunstable Downs adver

commemorate chalk hills. A very modern one 071. But this most The blood

unusual so closely in collected the impurities In

coagulated and the public mind that it is sugar into a scum which could tha often assumed that the first be skimmed of. Mr Tate and the first Mr Lyle were business nera,⚫

N

the short list for early nationalisation is the great sugar re- fining business whose foun- dations were laid by Mr Tato and Mr Lyle.

The sale every working day of 2 million packets of sugar bearing the words Tate and Lyle has linked their names

part

But actually, though they were born within a year of each other and worked within easy visiting range, there is no record that they ever mét. .

not

Certainly they wore friends. Commercially, they were rivals and keen ones,

too.

Little can these competi- tors have imagined that the day would

come when

When he was 13, Henry Tate was apprenticed to a grocer. As he cut up and weighed out the rather crude sugar of those days he probably turned over in his mind means of improving it

As a groser's boy Henry Tale was diligent and energetic. By the time he was 20 he was able to open his own grocery bus- ness.

record faYN

A contemporary that be displayed "the dogged, upright determination that dis- tinguishes Lancashire men."

Recipe For Success:

TWENTY years of hard work TW

a

to

Sugar cubes began to make the name of Tate famous the world over,

Sir Henry Taje.

Efore the century was out

and frugal living-a recive for success which is now poli- to satisfy a long-felt ambition. tically unpopular-enabled him

He set up as a sugar refiner in the ruling political party Liverpool, under the name

0 smali way at

East-street, the parson's son had built up would describe their life Henry Tate and Company,

of the biggest sugar refining busi-

news in Europe.. private monopoly which The arst 10 years were Labour intends to transfer struggle. But things to public ownership.”

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began to look up when he took four of h's sons into partnership.

裁 In the process he had made a great deal of money. But, as a commentator said at the time, "the world remembers with teful hearts the v he has

Father and sons decided they

made of his great wealth." would improve on the crude methods of their rivals by put- Thousands of pounds went to ting up the most efficient re- Liverpool University, to the ex-

02-

So he sold his interest Glebe ond, with his sons, bullt

in

town.

I

to

375

said to com-

creature with its bird's head, ises the Whipsnade - 2,00.

erasts. Whitelent Cross, In, the

Cubes And Syrup at Britain. Archaeologists have that at Wain Kill, Bledlow, is

Then

Jurce refinery in West Silver- body In one wavy line and Buckinghamshire has two great

His legs

disjointed sirenits, Chilterns, is believed to be the appears to date from times

w werk of mediaeval monks, and even before the Romans arrived

*** attributed to the Saxons. observed Its resemblance to

OLD FIGURES figures in gold coins which had wan at $vertown that been in circulation in the coun-

there are two

very Abram Lyle started to oust try long before 55 B.C., These old

gigantic

buman figures. old-fashioned treacle with his coins were imitations

that of the Some consider

the 180 Golden Syrup,

stater coined by Philip of foot high Cerne Giant at Cerne Macedon, father of Alexander Abbas, Dorsetshire, represents H's trade-mark of bees the Great,

reat. The stater, with is the Saxon god Heil. swarming round a Bon, adorned representation of

Others horse-drawn onl with the text from Judges. XIV. charlot, wos-imilated-in-pre-brandishes and say that it is a to the 120 foot club he "Out of the strong came forth Roman Gaul, and by the time Roman Hercules, whilst others sweetness"—was to become as ancient Britons were world famous as the cubes which the

copying are

ving are surer that it is a fertility Gaulish imitations, the god dating back to much more Henry Tafe was making near picture had become unrecogni- primitive Umes.

able ひば a horse and charlot, The other famous human

by.

It is probably true to day that but very much like a dragon, figure is the Long Man but for their specialities Henry on

or the White Horse Tale and Abram Lybe would lon have been forgotten today.

of

removal of the

n

of

:

Wilmington, on a Sussex down

slope Lo steep that he The

be, standing up. abnears, to turf covering of theht when seen from certain there was little or no profit to ment

Foreign dumping meant that Horse and 1ts "cosmetic treat angles. It is. 235. feet high, with

a with

liquid chalk outstretched.

hands "holding be made from ordinary granu-spray annoyed! those local starts as tall as the effigy Insed sugar. Tate was saved by sucklers for custom who wanted self. There are many

theories... the old traditional White Horse

concerning its origin. The more. cleaned, forming Д great generally accepted one it that The businesses they created occasion for rustle merry-mak- it is probably of ancient British.

origin or a. Druidic deity...

his cubes, Lyle by his syrup.

were of almost equal value. Ing.

an in 1921 the firms agreed to amalgamate the merger was put through on a 50-50 basis.

Not Submitting

ness

combined bus!- valuca its assets

IL

WHAT is beyond dispute tihery that ingenuity could di tension of hospitals, to the bull- that sugar refining vise. While it was being built ding of free Ibraries. was the very reverse of a there came a turning-point in He was monopoly in 1819 when the Henry Tale's carcer,

But Henry Tale's most offered a

TODAY the which patent Rev. William Tate,

held during monument is none of a par prom'se of revolutionising the these, nor even

£24 million. his refineries, more than son in Chorley, Lancs, was art of sugar refining.

but the National Gallery of supplico more than 60 percent presented with 11 200.

British Art, in London, known of Britain's sugar. Henry.

Tate knew that nearly every univerrally ns. the Tato-Gallery. other refiner in the country had

Each working minute it turns turned down the patent.

It was bu'lt on a former pri- out fqur tons, and last year its Ho The country was dotted

knew, too, that if he bought it son site at Millbank, and to it cales reached a record £78,800,- with small, family-run re-most of the machinery already Tale transferred his collection 000. fineries having an output of ordered for

of British pictures. refinery

The first Mr Tate and the first Tho cost was £100,000–“a Mr Lyle, both proud, Indepen thank-offering." he said, "for a dent types, would have approved prosperous business career of of the dozen or so of their descendants who are sull in the bust:9 "and control about' '30

A

One or two melted 15 tons week, and were regarded us the last word in big bust ness.

the new

G0 years."

a fow tone a week. In Lon- would have to be scrapped. don alone there were 80 of

The risk was great. He took them.

It. The palent was bought.

That decision, perhaps more than any other single action The kallery was upened in percent of its capital

1897-

Next year Queen Vic- was to ensure that Henry Tatu torla made Henry Tate a bare that if Tate's cubes become State For one, and all have decided would become a millionaire and

nel

·He died in 1901. his descendants after him,

The fans and fortune which cubes they will walk out, Henry Tate mado from sugar, in In the words of their spokes- Victoria's spacious days were man, Lord "Lyle, they will not matched by the achievement of "submit incekly to nationalida Abram tyle, cooper's son, who was bom in Greenock in 1820.

The now process was, a win- The largest refinery for which nor It produced sugar which young Henry was to be respon was justly described as "an alble-in Liverpool-now pro- rivalled for purity and bril ducer 13,000 tons a week. lianey."

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