Little is known about this operation. It is referred to in the titles registered with the Register of Sasines relating to the tenement block at 3 Bridgehaugh. Within the burdens relating to 3 Bridgehaugh there is a servitude right of access reserved by the vendor for a 10′-0″ wide roadway along the SW and NW of the tenement building to give access to their “Confectionery Works”.
Considering that the Confectionery works appears to have been situated between the tenement building at number three Bridgehaugh and the Woollen Mill, that burden would have been to ensure there was a continued access to the rear of their building.
In the 1905 Valuation Roll a Workshop at Old Bridge Stirling is listed. It is owned by Archibald Forrest and the representatives of the late William Forrest, Cabinet-makers, Stirling and tenanted by Kennedy & Co. (Stirling), Ltd., Confectioners.
In the 1903 Street Directory there is listed at Bridgehaugh a John Baker – Confectioner.
The Confectionery Works had in a previous life been a Cabinet Makers owned by the Ex Provost of Stirling (1897-1900) – Archibald Forrest. It had taken on this new persona as a Confectionery some time before 1903.
In 1911, however there was a major fire in the building which destroyed it entirely. The transcription of the Stirling Observer and the Stirling Journal Reports on the catastrophe can be read here.
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