View from W showing SW front of nos 118 - 108

Description View from W showing SW front of nos 118 - 108

Date 10/11/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 771102

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Crabbie's Green Ginger Factory, Nos 100-24 Great Junction Street, Edinburgh This shows the eastern end of the Great Junction Street frontage of the complex, from the south-west. This three-storeyed range dates from the mid-19th century, and was probably part of the whisky distillery. This was the section of the complex used latterly for Green Ginger manufacture. 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 H35/70/65/20

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/771102

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap