View from S showing SW front of nos 100 - 124

Description View from S showing SW front of nos 100 - 124

Date 10/11/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 771099

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Crabbie's Green Ginger Factory, Nos 100-24 Great Junction Street, Edinburgh This shows the Great Junction Street frontage of the complex, from the south-east. The three-storeyed range appears to be of mid-19th-century date, and the five-storeyed block late 19th century. The offices are of the 1950s or 1960s. The complex extended through to Yardheads. Crabbie's Green Ginger was a ginger wine made by fermenting imported raisins, then flavouring the fermented liquor with ginger and other spices. It continued to be made here until the early 1990s. The buildings seen here have since been converted to other uses. This complex seems to have had its origin in the Yardheads whisky distillery, founded in 1825, which lasted until 1884, latterly under the ownership of Bernard & Co. It then passed into the hands of John Crabbie & Co, who used it for whisky blending, and for the making of Crabbie's Green Ginger. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/65/16

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