Islay, Port Ellen Distillery General View
SC 572967
Description Islay, Port Ellen Distillery General View
Date 1980
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 572967
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Port Ellen Distillery, Port Ellen, Islay, Argyll (Argyll and Bute council area) This Islay Malt whisky distillery was founded in 1825 by AK Mackay and Co. It had a complex history of ownership, and was eventually acquired in 1927 by subsidiaries of The Distillers' Co Ltd, who closed it in 1929. It was revived in 1966-67. This view shows the distillery from the south, with the main productive buildings to the left, in front of the pagoda roofs of the former malt kilns. In the right background is the large drum maltings built in 1973 to supply the Islay distilleries. When the distillery was revived the number of stills was increased from two to four. The maltings closed when the new drum maltings opened, and the distillery in 1983, but the warehouses, which had been kept in use from 1929, are still used. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H80/88/2
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