Archaeology Notes

Event ID 707308

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS77NE 55 centred 77580 78880

For (associated) Bankier Quay (on Forth and Clyde Canal, at NS 7784 7877), see NS77NE 108.

(Location cited as NS 778 789). Bankier Distillery, founded 1828 by Daniel Macfarlane. A complex of buildings of various dates, dominated by two pyramidal-roofed kilns, serving a two-storey range of malting floors. This distillery was served by a horse tramway to a wharf on the the Forth and Clyde Canal, which still survives.

J R Hume 1976.