View from E showing E front of bakery with stable on right, Otago Street, Glasgow

Description View from E showing E front of bakery with stable on right, Otago Street, Glasgow

Date 9/2/1969

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 698925

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Weston Building Co (Hubbard's Bakery), Nos 65-73 Otago Street, Glasgow This bakery was built in 1905-6 for Walter Hubbard Ltd to make bakery products for their chain of retail shops. It was designed by Andrew Balfour, architect and built on a sloping site between Otago Street and the river Kelvin, with a nicely-detailed frontage to the street. This shows the rear of the bakery, facing the river, a relatively late example of the use of red and white brick in an industrial building. The front building, which incorporated the firm's head office, was faced with red terra-cotta brick with sandstone dressings. Hubbards were described in 1924 as bakers, rusk manufacturers, confectioners, and purveyors, specialising particularly in rusks and wedding cakes. At 508-10 Great Western Road is an Art Deco building built in 1929 for Hubbards as a baker's shop and restaurant, now a public house. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/69/9/33

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/698925

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