Rothes, Glen Grant Distillery, Interior View showing new stillhouse

Description Rothes, Glen Grant Distillery, Interior View showing new stillhouse

Date 27/3/1980

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 570187

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Glen Grant Distillery, Rothes, Morayshire This distillery was founded in 1840 by John and James Grant, from Aberlour Distillery. It remained independent until 1953 when it amalgamated with the Glenlivet distillery, and is now part of the Seagram empire, which was for sale at the end of 2000. This view shows the interior of the new stillhouse. This contains two sets of four stills which are replicas of the four original stills in the old stillhouse, though heated by gas instead of coal. The four stills to the left constitute one set. The old coal-fired stillhouse was demolished in the 1980s. This was one of the last coal-fired sets of stills in Scotland, and the last to have waterwheel-driven rummagers in the wash stills, to prevent the build-up of deposits on the still bottoms. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H80/20/13

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