Bakery Building - remodelled in 1934.
The remodelled façade of the bakery at 157 Auburn Road is Streamlined Moderne in
character, with parallel horizontal line motifs, simple window openings and a
stepped parapet. Ornamentation is concentrated on the upper part of the
building, with a cornice and a pair of panels above the windows on the right
side of the façade decorated with wheat sheaf bas-reliefs.he interwar remodelling was designed and carried out by prominent
lbourne
builders the Swanson Brothers, The new premises featured
three drawplate ovens, which replaced the old wood-fired ones and allowed for
large scale production by semi-skilled or unskilled workers. The main bakery
building off Auburn Road continued to be entered via the loading bay.
At its height in the 1930s,
the bakery
employed 36 workers, including 11 bakers, 20 carters, a dough maker and a
stableman. It drew flour from seven mills in Victoria and
Queensland and consumed twenty tonnes of flour a week. Balloch & Sons were
still advertising for bread carters in 1949.
The
bakery supplied bread for Sustenance during the 1930s and held a number of
government contracts thereafter
