Peterhead, Glenugie Distillery View from NE showing weighbridge and NNW front of associated building with building on W side of courtyard in background

Description Peterhead, Glenugie Distillery View from NE showing weighbridge and NNW front of associated building with building on W side of courtyard in background

Date 1/4/1980

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

Catalogue Number SC 570352

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Glenugie Distillery, Peterhead, Aberdeenshire (Aberdeenshire council area) This distillery was established by Donald, McLeod and Co, It passed through many hands, and was a brewery for a time. It was rebuilt in the 1870s, and eventually became part of Long John Distillers Ltd, taken over in 1975 by Whitbreads and closed in 1983. This view shows the weighbridge in the distillery courtyard, with its external steelyard, an unusual feature. This device was used to weigh full and empty vehicles to control what came into and what went out of the distillery. Glenugie was a very small and old-fashioned distillery, and succumbed to the downturn in the industry in the early 1980s when many smaller distilleries were closed. It has since been demolished. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H80/35/7

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/570352

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