Visible to motorists passing over the Kingston Bridge for decades, the iconic tower of Bilslands' Bakery is sorely missed from the city skyline.
For decades, it was the Glasgow landmark familiar to thousands of commuters on their way to work every morning, but today the iconic Bilslands' Bakery tower is sadly no more.
By the end of the 19th century, Bilslands' was employing 200 people and baking around a quarter of a million loaves of bread every week. Workers' conditions were unusually fair for the time, with the number of hours capped at 40 hours per week and the added bonus of free bread for their families. Sign up to our Glasgow Live nostalgia newsletters for more local history and heritage content straight to your inbox
The bakery business continued to go from strength to strength under Steven Bilsland, who would go on to run a number of other successful firms in the city. Of course, Bilslands' Bakery was the biggest and most well-known of his ventures, and for the next 50 years it remained a major employer in the Anderston area.
In a post on the Lost Glasgow Facebook group, dozens reminisced about Bilslands' Bakery. Many recalled family members being employed there, while others remembered attending the annual works' Christmas parties at the Hydepark Street site. Patrice Leonard recalled how fortuitous it was that her dad worked at Bilslands' during the bread strikes of the 1970s. She said: "There wasn't any [bread] to be bought anywhere but dad managed to keep us going on bread and cakes - I've never had so many friends!"
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