General view of distillery from South. Digital image of C 54148 CN.

Description General view of distillery from South. Digital image of C 54148 CN.

Date 1995

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number SC 738588

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of C 54148 CN

Scope and Content Glenkinchie Distillery, Pencaitland, East Lothian, from south 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 the main distillery buildings, constructed from red brick, and the tall banded black and red brick boiler house chimney. The distillery is sited in the glen of the Kinchie (a tributary of the River Tyne), in lands once owned by the de Quincey family. Many distilleries, including Glenkinchie, grew up around farms with their ready supply of barley 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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