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Hillside Distillery, Maltings

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Interior view from NE of hot malt bins, situated at top level of E end of Steep Room (above Drum Room)
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Exterior general view from NNE of maltings, showing brick-built block of five kilns (left), and silos (far left), with the Drum House (right), which contains 24 steeps and 24 drums
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Exterior view from NW along N side of Drum House of maltings
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Exterior view from N of rail dispatch silo/hopper and siding, sitated to SW of maltings
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Distant general view of maltings buildings from SE
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Exterior view of maltings buildings from W
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View from East at lower level down centre of Drum Room, Hillside Distillery, between the two rows of 12 rim-gear-driven maltings drums, also showing Crofts (Engineers) of Bradford gear boxes.  The Drums were made by Robert Boby Ltd of Bury St Edmonds (a Vickers Ltd company).
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Drum Room:  general interior view E down centre of Drum Room, showing conical bases of 24 steeps above, and 24 rotating maltings drums (with rim gears) below.  Also visible at this level are electrical control panels on either side
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Kilns:  detail of supplementary peat-burning firebox of Kiln No.2
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Exterior view from W along S side of Drum House of maltings
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Detailed exterior view of base of new Bioplant (opened in 1995), situated at W side of maltings
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Exterior view from S of SW end of maltings silo block, adjacent to main maltings buildings
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Drum Room:  interior view from E down S side of Drum Room, showing electrical control panels (left), conical bases of steeps (above), and rotating drums below
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Kilns:  view from W looking into Kiln No.4, showing its wire-mesh floor in tilted position, allowing dried malt to fall into conveyors below
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Exterior general view of N side of maltings from N
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Exterior general view from NNE of maltings, showing brick-built block of five kilns (left), and silos (far left), with the Drum House (right), which contains 24 steeps and 24 drums
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Drum Room:  interior general view from ESE of odd-numbered rotating maltings drums
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Drum Room:  general interior view from ESE of odd-numbered rotating maltings drums
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Drum Room:  view from E along gantry at middle level of S side of Drum Room
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Kilns:  view from N at level beneath kiln floors, showing access doors to Kilns 2 and 3 (left), and the base of the malt bins (right).  The kilns are fired by oil burners directly, but two have a steam-heated indirect heat facility
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Console Room:  view from SE of main control panel, with barley lorry outside (backround) waiting to unload.  The Console Room is situated at the ground floor level of the adjacent Silo Block (to the SW), and the control panel was manufactured by 'Electric Construction'
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Kilns:  detail of Hamworthy (of Poole, Dorset) oil burner heating Kiln No.2 (which burns heavy fuel oil)
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General exterior view from SW of maltings' rail siding and dispatch silo/hopper, with maltings in background
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Drum Room:  view from E at lower level down centre of Drum Room between the two rows of 12 rim-gear-driven maltings drums, also showing Crofts (Engineers) of Bradford gear boxes.  The Drums were made by Robert Boby Ltd of Bury St Edmonds (a Vickers Ltd company)
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