Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 564561
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
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Talisker Distillery, Charles Doig, 1890; virtually all reconstructed following an extensive fire in 1961 Historic distillery founded by the MacAskill Brothers in 1833 . Although the long ranges are the result of much rebuilding, the complex includes an early 20th century pier, with railway track and workers' houses.
[Carbost was cleared of its inhabitants to make way for Talisker Distillery which, by c.1900, was producing 40,000 gallons of spirit a year. Now part of United Distillers (Guiness PLC), its maltings closed in 1970.
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
