I was amused to find, quite accidentally, that there were four bakeries in Kingston in the 19th century, for various periods, which were named as coloured houses - the Red, Green, Blue and White House Bakeries. I have found out something about each and quite a lot about one - I hope this may prove interesting!
Red House Bakery
The Red House Bakery - Fisher's Bakery - is notorious as the business on Harbour Street where the fire of 1862 originated.
Jamaica Forty Years Ago:
A Retrospect by Rev. W. Griffith. At that time Harbour Street was by no means the street it was to-day. There was one institution that was popularly known throughout the city as the Red House Bakery, situated in Harbour Street, opposite to where Messrs. Emanuel Lyons and Son's store is now. It was there where one of the fires originated. Daily Gleaner, February 17, 1899 |
The Illustrated London News, May 10, 1862
THE report of a great fire at Kingston, Jamaica, is confirmed. The Guardian gives the following details of the conflagration which in few hours laid a large portion of the business part of Kingston in ashes:— |
White House Bakery
Blue House Bakery
1891 KINGSTON BUSINESS DIRECTORY
Blue House Bakery, 28, Church St, S. Morais, Proprietor. |