Photo scanned from newspaper cutting, original unfortunately not available.

The scene of destruction on Wednesday morning, taken from the warehouse looking into the bakery. In the foreground can be seen fire-blackened tins of coffee, in the background the ruined machines and charred timbers.
Firemen dodged exploding food and coffee tins as they successfully battled to contain a blaze which completely gutted the Newport Street Burnley bakehouse of T. Redman and Co.. Ltd., causing what has been roughly estimated at £25,000 worth of damage to the building, stock and expensive machinery, some of it new, and electric ovens. The fire was discovered by neighbouring residents in Gannow Lane shortly after 9 pm on Tuesday. Prompt action by the brigade coupled with the fact that there was virtually no wind to fan the flames, and a 3 ft thick intervening wall, saved the adjoining main warehouse from destruction. The bakery and wholesale grocery warehouse, headquarters of the firm, supplies goods and confectionery to shops over a wide area of East Lancashire and West Yorkshire. Officials had to make hurried arrangements with other local bakeries to make sure that these shops received at least some supplies on Wednesday and afterwards. No bread is baked on the premises. Mr. Raymond Barraclough, bakery manager, said that the bakery supplied 43 shops and about 25 shops belonging to the firm. A staff of 30 were employed making “morning goods”, confectionery, tea cakes, pies etc. He said that when the bakery staff arrived at the premises at 7 am on Wednesday they were sent home but told to return later to help in clearing up the debris.
The section of the warehouse nearest the bakery was severely damaged and its contents ruined. Stacks of fire-blackened tinned fruit leaned at crazy angles, tins and bottles of coffee, all damaged, littered the floor in heaps and “cakes” of dried fruit damaged by fire and water told their own story of the intense heat generated in the blaze.
“It would be difficult to give an exact figure of the damage”, said Mr. Barraclough. “Expensive preparation machinery, some of it new, and new electric ovens have been destroyed in the bakehouse.”
Mr. Holdsworth, the firm’s shop inspector for the Burnley area, said that a lot of Christmas stock had been destroyed in the fire. “We have another bakery at Leigh and they will help us out”, he said.
Workmen had been employed on the single storey roof of the bakehouse, formerly a weaving shed, with oxy-acetylene equipment working on a new drainage installation. Mr. Thomas Whalley, an etcher, of 86 Gannow lane, went into the backyard of his home at about 9 pm on Tuesday and saw the flames leaping through the bakehouse.
The fire was tackled by two appliances from the Burnley brigade under the personal direction of the Chief Fire Officer, Mr. A.E. Reece. In an official report on the fire it was stated by a brigade official that it could have developed from a spark from the oxy-acetylene equipment being used on Tuesday afternoon. Approximately 50 per cent of the roof on the single storey bakery was severely damaged. Part of the bacon department and 20 per cent of its contents were affected by heat and water along with the equipment and machinery in the bakehouse.

Mr. Reece said, “Firemen were hampered by exploding cans, they went off like bullets. It was like someone shooting at us in the dark and smoke.”
The seat of the fire was apparently in a corner of the section of warehouse housed in the single storey building.