Continuing plans for the modernisation of Stobswell will alas see the end of a building responsible for feeding generations of Dundonians with the world-famous Wallace’s Peh.

A demolition tender from Safedem, marked for approval by the city council’s planning committee on Monday night, signals the end of a part of Stobswell’s past in the council’s drive to provide a new future for the area.

A contract worth £178,080 is being recommended for the demolition of the Wallace Land O’ Cakes building at the corner of Dura Street and Eliza Street.

Planning convener Fiona Grant said, “There has been much work to improve Stobswell over the recent past, with the modernisation of the Dura Street car park next to Wallace’s being one of the best examples.

“The Land O’ Cakes building, while representing a link to the area’s past, is now a crumbling and dangerous eyesore that needs to be removed for the future.

“I’m sure this work will be welcomed by the local community who have made a significant contribution in shaping previous projects.”

Wallace Land O’ Cakes was established in Dundee in 1898, and quickly earned a reputation for quality produce.

It became established in Dura Street in 1925 and spent 71 years in Stobswell.

During that time Wallace’s pies, bridies, sausage rolls and various confections became a byword for quality and their customers came from throughout the city and beyond.

Many a Dundee Peh has been sent abroad to a homesick Scot in Canada, New Zealand and other outposts where migrating Dundonians can be found.

The origins of the Dundee Peh are credited by local culinary historians to David Wallace, who set up the Auld Dundee Pie Shop in The Vault.

Wallace Land O’ Cakes began with a shop run in Blackness Road by his brother, James McHardy Wallace, in 1898.

David later moved to a shop in Castle Street, which finally closed in 1977 and James went on to open the now doomed Stobswell premises in Dura Street.

Fortunately the Dundee Peh and the name of Wallace is still up and running in Dundee and the surrounding area.