Glenfarclas Distillery View from WSW showing part of NW front of NE warehouse block

Description Glenfarclas Distillery View from WSW showing part of NW front of NE warehouse block

Date 28/3/1980

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

Catalogue Number SC 570228

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Glenfarclas Distillery, Ballindalloch, Banffshire This distillery was founded in 1836 by a farmer, Robert Hay. It was eventually acquired by the Grant family, who formed a limited company with Pattison Elder and Co in 1895, which rebuilt it. Pattisons collapsed in 1898, and the Grants again took over. This view shows part of the traditional warehouses, probably part of the 1895-6 rebuilding, with a row of hogheads waiting to be loaded into the lorry on the left. Note the rails provided for rolling the casks, a common feature of traditional distilleries In this type of warehouse three or four tiers of casks were stored, with wooden planks separating the tiers. This 'dunnage' system was in 1980 being supplanted by racked warehouses with casks stored ten or more high, with mechanical access. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H80/21/10

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