UK Sucrologists Club

Over the last few days nearly 200 packets have been added to the SUGARCAT databse. Most of these are scans of lump wrappers from Pam Miller’s collection.  This is in addition to more than 100  lump wrappers added in November.  See the “Added” page for a list of the batches of additions and links to show each.

When lump wrappers have been added the Tate and Lyle numbers list has also been updated.  The master version of this list is compiled by Pam Miller but it is hoped that the online list is consistent with it.  There 1,501 numbers which are known and 1,262 of these can be seen on the database. We do not know the wrappers for 1,077 other numbers though some of these must be wrappers on the database but with no number printed on them. In total there are 2,005 Tate and Lyle lump wrappers on the database. 

Twenty packets submitted by Mike Henley from a donated collection

The 2018 UKSC Exchange meeting will be held on Saturday 6th October 2018 at Gorse Hill Baptise Church Swindon.

Further details can be found here.

The brochure is avaiable to download.

Bookings can be made online here.

I have finished adding to the website a large numbe of Tate and Lyle wrappers. These came from the collection of the late Joan Pick and were scanned by Don Collishaw.

In total there were 835 wrappers more than doubling the the number of wrappers on the SUGARCAT database.  There are now over 12,000 packets on the database.

A large number of these wrappers have reference numbers on and were listed as “missing” on the online version of Pam Millers list of T&L design numbers. The list has been updated such that there are now more known than missing, although I will need to check the online list against Pam’s  verions once she had finsihed upating it.

To access the database and wrappers list you need to be a member.

David Phillips

Another batch of 126 lump wrappers have been added to the SUGARCAT database. This is in addition to an earlier batch of 27 wrappers.

All have been scanned and sent by Don Collishaw from the collection of the late Joan Pick.  many of them have been previously listed as “missing” on the Tate & Lyle numbers list maintained by Pam Miller and will be included in the forthcoming newsletter, or the subsequent one. The online list has also been updated.

See the added page for a link to these two batches.

There are a lot more wrapper scans sent by Don that are still to be processed and added.

A further 61 packets have been added to the SUGARCAT database. There were from collections donated to UKSC and were submitted by Pam Miller.

See list of packets added.

There are now 11,097 packets on the database.

A new “added” page has been added to the SUGARCAT database part of the website.

This is intended to show recent batches of packets added to the database as a list. Although it has been possible to select packets by the time they were added this was in certain date ranges. This could be inconvenient for me when adding packets on consecutive days and wanting to check them.

I have therefore changed the code a bit to allow searching on the packet date added field.  By entering, for example, 10/02/2018 in the text field on the SUGARCAT page it is now possible to show all packets added on that date.  Similarly entering 02/2018 will show all packets added in February.

The added page simply makes use of this to list the batched and provide a link that will show the  packets for that particular date.

David Phillips

Some packets submitted by Dave Mansley have been added to the SUGARCAT database. There are a few from an old Sugarthon Christmas set and several old (non Tate and Lyle) wrappers.

I still have just over 200 more packets from Dave and quite a few from Pam MIller that are waiting to be processed and added.

See these packets on the database.

List of packets added by date.