The Bakery at Auburn Rd South
The former bakery manufactory at
present-day 157 Auburn Road, East Hawthorn is historically significant as the Balloch and Sons Bakery
operated on this site from 1894 to 1967. It was the leading baker in Hawthorn, delivering
bread door to door throughout the Eastern suburbs and Malvern, and responsible for distributing Sustenance during the
Great Depression. The expansion of the bread factory in the interwar period was part of the development of a local manufacturing
capacity in the early twentieth century.
The address of the site was 121 Auburn Road South
and was known as "Balloch's Midlothian Bakery" (By the 1920s, street numbering had
changed, when the address became the current 157 Auburn Road. The "South" tag had been abandoned).
Construction
Initially, the bakery consisted of two shops. In 1894, a new bakery building was constructed, of
two levels, incorporating the shops and sited on the corner of Russell's Lane (later known as Russell's Place). The
facility included a "Coach House", and a "Horse Yard", Access was via a Loading Bay from Auburn Rd,.
