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Scale model of mill room.
SC 738396
Description Scale model of mill room.
Date 1984
Catalogue Number SC 738396
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of A 33428
Scope and Content Model of mill room, Glenkinchie Distillery, Pencaitland, East Lothian Glenkinchie Distillery was established in 1837 by brothers John and George Rate, who went bankrupt in 1853 leading to the closure of the site and its reuse as a cowshed. In 1880 the Glen Kinchie Distillery Company rebuilt the premises, and production began once more. The floor maltings were last used in 1968, and now house a museum of malting. The distillery continues to produce whisky for Haig's blends. This shows a highly detailed 1:6 scale model of a mill room. It is part of a model distillery exhibited at the Empire Exhibition of 1924-5 in London. The cut-away wall shows the malt bins (top), screen and weighing machine (centre) and the mill which grinds the malt to 'grist' (bottom). Many distilleries, including Glenkinchie, grew up around farms with their ready supply of barley to be malted for use in whisky production and subsequent waste products for cattle feed. In the 1940s and 1950s Glenkinchie's distillery manager continued this tradition using the spent grain to feed his herd of prize-winning Aberdeen Angus cattle. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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