Kennethmont, Ardmore Distillery, Interior View showing stillhouse
SC 570432
Description Kennethmont, Ardmore Distillery, Interior View showing stillhouse
Date 1/4/1980
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 570432
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 stillhouse as rebuilt in 1974, with its eight very large coal-fired stills. Note the drive to the rummager in the wash still in the foreground. Inside the still copper chains were dragged round the still bottom to prevent overheating. 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 H80/37/8
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