View from NW showing main entrances on WNW front (Wesleyan Street front)

Description View from NW showing main entrances on WNW front (Wesleyan Street front)

Date 14/7/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 733537

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Victoria Bread & Biscuit Works, No 30 Wesleyan Street, Glasgow This large bakery was established in 1880 by John MacFarlane & Sons, bakers, and later rebuilt and extended on several occasions, notably in 1886 and 1895. By 1901 the firm had become MacFarlane, Lang & Co, noted for their biscuits. Biscuit baking was moved to a bakery at Tollcross in the 1920s. This shows part of the Wesleyan Street frontage of the works from the north west. The arched cart entries are in a building constructed in 1886 to designs by McKissack and Rowan, architects. They were designed for deliveries of materials to the works, and of bread to retailers. After the biscuit factory was moved to Tollcross the residual bakery business in Wesleyan Street seems to have been reconstructed as the Milanda Bread Co Ltd, bread and cake manufacturers. The Wesleyan Street bakery closed in 1974 and was immediately demolished. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/30/11

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