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3 unusual facts about Catherine Cranston


Catherine Cranston

In 1904 she commissioned him to carry out the redecoration and design of new furniture for the mansion of Hous'hill in Nitshill which was home to herself and her husband John Cochrane.

The tea rooms are now owned by the Glasgow bakery HR Bradfords, who also own the UK intellectual property for the Miss Cranston name and who supply the cakes and confectionery to their tea rooms.

The menu card designed by Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh shows the name for the tearooms, The White Cockade, but makes no visual connection with this reference to Jacobitism.



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