Scapa Distillery
Distillery (Period Unassigned), Water Wheel(S) (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Scapa Distillery
Classification Distillery (Period Unassigned), Water Wheel(S) (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 2349
Site Number HY40NW 10
NGR HY 4343 0888
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/2349
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Kirkwall And St Ola
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY40NW 10 434 088
Scapa Distillery. Some single-storey rubble-built warehouses of 1885, the rest late 20th century.
J Gifford 1992.
HY40NW 10 434 088
The waterwheels at Scapa Distillery were recorded in 1981. The smaller water wheel which drove the 'rummager wheel' which cleans the dome of the still measures 1.84m in overall diameter, has 6 arms and 18 buckets. The water supply for this came from the boiler condenser. The larger waterwheel (HY 4341 0884) drove the line shaft and worked until the 1960s and is 1.31m in width and 3.66m in overall diameter with 6 arms and 30 galvanised sheet metal buckets.
No further information.
Visited by Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey (GJD), 21 May 1981.
NMRS MS/500/18/2
Moss and Hume (1981) note that Scapa Distillery was originally opened in 1885 and changed hands several times. It was rebuilt in 1959 (when acquired by Hiram Walker (Scotland) Ltd.) and had two stills on the date of visit (the distillery was still in operation in 1980). Scapa's light malt was produced by Hiram Walker for their blends aimed primarily at the American market.
M S Moss and J R Hume 1981
