Still House: view from SSE at lower level of fireboxes beneath Spirit Still No.2, with doors open, showing coal fire. Digital image of C 62019 CN.

Description Still House: view from SSE at lower level of fireboxes beneath Spirit Still No.2, with doors open, showing coal fire. Digital image of C 62019 CN.

Date 1994

Catalogue Number SC 738440

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of C 62019 CN

Scope and Content View of firebox below spirit still No 2 from south-south-east, Glendronach Distillery, Aberdeenshire Glendronach Distillery was founded in 1826 by a consortium called the Glendronach Distillery Company. After a serious fire in 1837 the site was restored by Mr Walter Scott who had learned the trade at Teanininch Distillery. Glendronach was bought by Captain Charles Grant in 1920, sold to William Teachers & Sons in 1960, was mothballed in 1996 and re-opened c.2002. This shows a firebox on the floor below the spirit stills with its door open. The metal hopper below the doors is used to dispose of ash from the fires, which are automatically fed with coal by a 'Riley' stoking machine. The firebox is set below an arch of pale bricks with rounded corners. Glendronach retains its traditional floor maltings where barley is germinated; a pagoda-headed malt-kiln, where the malt is dried; wooden washbacks; and coal-fired stills. It also features a colony of rooks (known as a 'clamour'), which are traditionally said to bring good luck to a distillery. This belief goes back to the days of illicit distilling, when the alarm call of the birds would warn of the approach of the exciseman. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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