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Archiseek article on the building.

OSI Map showing "Biscuit factory".

But the bigger mystery of how they ever got the figs into the Fig Rolls is solved here...

Freeman's Journal of May 26 1883 reported a fire at Messrs Jacob's Biscuit Factory in Peter Street. The damage done was enormous", but could have been worse but for the actions of the night watchman, Patrick Mooney, and the Fire Brigade under the command of Captain Boyle and Lieutenant Boyle.

There's a ground floor floorplan of the factory available and I think I can make out a "cutter room" towards the centre. (However, the floorplans date from 1956, so I presume there may have been a few changes made.)

Wikipedia has a very similar photo in Westminster Abbey dated "c. 1875 - c. 1885". There's no label on the sword and shield ...
Spot the Differences!

The Stone of Scone has had more than its share of ups and downs - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_of_Scone
"Since March 2024, it has been on permanent public display in Perth"

Flickr is sometimes amazing! Via Leonard Bentley who says the Magic Lantern slide is late 1880s -

We had its Irish equivalent, an Lia Fáil, here before, also by Mason below.

I see the Scottish rock is also called An Lia Fàil in Scots Gaelic!

beachcomber australia Because that comment came from you, for one milli-zillisecond I thought, what's it doing in Western Australia?! :D

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Ha ha! I am moithered that the Stone of Scone doesn't rhyme !

Bizarre story ... ... In Watty Cox’s Irish magazine for February 1816 there was a vivid account of the punishment of a woman at Geneva Barracks in 1798. Mrs O’Neill travelled from Co Antrim to see her son who was imprisoned at the barracks. By bribing sentries she was permitted an interview but as soon as mother and son saluted each other, she was ordered into the presence of Colonel Scott and his wife. The couple subjected her to a rigorous examination and then handed her over to highlanders for a “blanketing”. Blanketing was a common punishment where the soldiers would grab a blanket, strip the victim naked and hoist them in the air repeatedly. Mrs O’Neill suffered this indignity for more than 20 minutes. She implored soldiers to leave some clothes on but when Colonel Scott saw this departure from custom his wife encouraged him to cut off her clothes with his sword. Locals saw her naked body repeatedly rising and falling above the walls of the barracks. Afterwards the woman was taken to Passage East where she died the next day. The fate of her son was not recorded. ... From - woollydays.wordpress.com/2016/06/27/the-story-of-new-gene...

beachcomber australia In the extreme!

Geneva Barracks at wikipedia. The barracks gradually fell into disuse in the years following the end of the Napoleonic Wars and were finally closed in 1824.

Marked as In Ruins on the 1830s OSI 6".

Google maps aerial view.