View from WNW showing kiln vents of Ravenscraig Maltings

Description View from WNW showing kiln vents of Ravenscraig Maltings

Date 23/6/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 733297

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Ravenscraig Maltings (East Bridge Maltings), The Path, Kirkcaldy, Fife These maltings belonging in 1970 to Robert Hutchison and Co Ltd, may have had their origin in the maltings of East Bridge whisky distillery, founded in 1795 by Robert Speirs. It operated until 1848, and was then converted into a flour mill. It seems likely that the distillery maltings became the nucleus of these ones. This shows the kilns of the two main ranges of maltings from the west. These were probably built in the 1870s or 80s, apart from the roofs of the left-hand pair of kilns, probably early 20th century. To the right of the right-hand kiln roofs are the roofs of the elevators taking green malt to the kilns to be dried. The maltings in this view are floor maltings, and were disused in 1970, superseded by the less labour-intensive drum malting process. These buildings have, apart from the grain silos, been demolished. The conical roofed kilns were without parallel in Scotland. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/23/35

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