Bottling Hall: bottling in progress

Description Bottling Hall: bottling in progress

Date 27/2/1996

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number C 64633 CN

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 742487

Scope and Content Workers sealing bottles in the bottling hall, Springbank Distillery, Glebe Street, Campbeltown, Argyll & Bute Springbank Distillery was legally established in 1828 by the Mitchell family, whose descendants still own it. Illicit distilling may have been carried out on the same site for many years previous to this. Springbank closed in 1926 due to a slump in the whisky trade, but re-opened in 1935. Springbank cut its own peat until recently, malts its own barley, distils and matures whisky and even bottles it on site. This shows two distillery workers fitting gold plastic seals around the necks of filled bottles of whisky. The seal is heated to fit it closely onto the neck of the bottle providing a tamper-proof cover over the cork. Hand finishing and bottling on site is unusual in modern distilleries, with most bottling being completed by commercial bottling plants elsewhere. Springbank has a permanent workforce of 24 people, many more than are needed to run more computerised distilleries. The staff are required to work in different areas of the site as required, changing from malting to distilling duties when necessary. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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