On Monday the 7th of June 1937 Edinburgh Evening News reported : –
An attempt was made at the weekend to blow the safe and the Premises of Macgregor’s (Should have been McGrouther’s) Bacon Curing Factory at Cornton Rd in Stirling. Entrance was gained to the premises by smashing a window and explosives were applied to the safe. The door was partially forced open but not sufficiently to enable access to be obtained to the interior for unsuccessful efforts had obviously been made to force the door. Stirlingshire Police are investigating the affair.
AND AGAIN!!!
Monday 12th September 1955 the Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette reported: –
Stirling police, using roadblocks, and road patrols are today searching for Raiders who blew a factory safe at Stirling during the night. The safe is at McGrouther’s Bacon Factory. It is not yet known what is missing. The Factory Manager, just back from holiday, told a reporter “One of the four men who lives near the factory grounds heard an explosion in the early hours. He raised another employee who lives nearby, there is no watchman in the factory, and they went to the factory but the birds had flown”. The safe was in a ground floor general office.
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