Glasgow, McNeil Street, UCBS Bakery View from S showing SSW front and part of SE front
SC 513965
Description Glasgow, McNeil Street, UCBS Bakery View from S showing SSW front and part of SE front
Date 1977
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 513965
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content United Cooperative Baking Society's bakery, McNeil, Adelphi, Moffat and Ballater streets, Glasgow This very large bakery was built in stages between 1886 and 1916, in a vaguely Flemish style, mostly in polychrome brick, for the United Cooperative Bakery Society, which supplied bread and other bakery products to retail Cooperative societies. This view shows the Ballater Street frontage of the building. The elaborate architectural treatment was intended to show that the Cooperative movement had aspirations at least as high as those of private enterprise. The architects were Bruce and Hay. This building was demolished in 1977. It was the largest of Glasgow's mechanised bakeries, but the marked decline of retail co-operation in the post-war period made it unprofitable. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H77/66/9
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