View from SSW showing SSW front (Forbes Street front)
SC 733539
Description View from SSW showing SSW front (Forbes Street front)
Date 14/7/1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 733539
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 the frontage of the works to Forbes Street. The large block on the left was designed by J M Monro and built in 1895 to replace earlier, smaller buildings. The top floor of this building was damaged by fire in 1969 and rebuilt in the form seen here. This building was probably built for biscuit baking. 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 H35/70/30/13
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