View from SE showing SSW front (Forbes Street front) and part of ESE front (Cubie Street front)

Description View from SE showing SSW front (Forbes Street front) and part of ESE front (Cubie Street front)

Date 14/7/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 733540

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, with part of the Cubie Street frontage on the right The large block on the left was designed by J M Monro and built in 1895 to replace earlier, smaller buildings. The building to its right was built as a stables for horses pulling delivery vans. 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 H35/70/30/14

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/733540

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