Woodstock

About this audio guide

This guide to Woodstock in Cape Town traces the old Victorian biscuit factory on Albert Road back to 1914, when Scottish-born baker John Pyott built it after already running a business in Port Elizabeth. You'll hear how the smell of baking drifted over the working port suburb for three decades, and what emptied the ovens in 1946 when new machinery made the plant obsolete. It follows the building through decades of neglect, pigeons nesting where flour sacks once stood.