Kennethmont, Ardmore Distillery, Interior View showing steam engine
SC 570422
Description Kennethmont, Ardmore Distillery, Interior View showing steam engine
Date 1/4/1980
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 570422
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Ardmore Distillery, Kennethmont, Aberdeenshire (Aberdeenshire council area) This distillery was founded in 1898-9 by William Teacher and Son, blenders, Glasgow, who extended it from two to four stills in 1955, and to eight in 1974. Teachers became part of Allied Brewers in 1976, and Ardmore now belongs to Allied Distillers. This view shows the steam engine which drove the distillery machinery in 1898-9, preserved in working order, and in situ. The drive to the machinery appears to have been from the rim of the flywheel on the left. Ardmore had one of the two largest coal-fired stillhouses in Scotland in 1980, the other being at Glenfiddich, where the stills were much smaller. The distillery was built at the end of the 1890s whisky boom, and was rail-served. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H80/37/1
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