Peter Hunt

These images of Mortlach were featured, including Sandy enjoying a drop of I'm guessing wash, or a healthy drop of whisky!
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9th March 1935
Published in The Sphere.
'Whisky: The Golden Goose' by Charles Grave.
He laments the lack of literature available on whisky save for a pamphlet produced in 1924, praises the proposed reduction in duty & debates why English isn't a thing.

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8th March 1824
A petition is presented to the House of Commons by the Scotch distillers to allow them to export 'any part of the spirits they make into England', as they are currently not permitted to do so.
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From Whisky Magazine, November 2005.
Diageo Rare Malts bottlings to cease.
"In future, all premium & rare whiskies will be made available in the annual Special Releases series".
2005: Glen Mhor 28yo 😍
2024: Talisker 8yo in casks that have been polished with stones 🙃
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Image: From The Northern Scot. The Marketing and Management team at Macallan.

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7th March 1980
At a press event at the distillery, Macallan announces a new marketing strategy by appointing Messrs Atkinson, Baldwin & co as sole agents for Macallan in the UK. They plan to claim 10% of the total UK whisky market in the next four years.
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His obituary in the Aberdeen Weekly Journal stated he was 'respected wherever his business took him, his blithe disposition making him a general favourite'.
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6th March 1914
Mr J.A. Johnstone MD of Glenburgie Distillery passes away.
He successfully set up business connections for the distillery in the USA & Canada.

And with Port Dundas, a fire or accident every other week 😂

Just round the corner from Port Dundas, and across the road from an illicit distillation site too!

Fantastically so!

Image is of the adjacent canal basin to this long lost distillery ©John Hulme
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5th March 1820
Advertised for sale in the Glasgow Herald
4,000 gallons of whisky from the recently closed Rock Villa Distillery, as well as barley, malt, yeast & soap (used to knock back over-lively wash?)
The distillery operated from 1814 to 1820.

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5th March 2015
Those wonderful folk at @GlasgowDC filled their first ever cask.
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4th March 1898
The mash tun, wash backs, spirit still and wash still of Millburn distillery are advertised for sale in the Elgin Courant 'owing to the erection of new and enlarged plant' paid for by the Haig family.
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3rd March 1963
William Grant & Sons announces plans to build a new £1.25m distillery in Girvan, Ayrshire, on the site of an old Ordnance facctory.
They plan to employ 200 people at the site & have it built & operational within a year (which they did!)
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2nd March 1990
Invergordon distillery announces the launch of its 10yo Single Grain Highland Whisky. In an attempt to challenge in the market space that Jim Beam and Southern Comfort occupy, they have spent £400,000 on the campaign.
Images: Old Vs New
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1st March 1898
The Distillers', Brewers', and Spirit Merchants' Magazine dismisses rumours of subsidisation from a 'well known and important Leith firm'.

Also included in this issue is a full page advert for Pattisons Whisky. 👀
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28th February 1958
An extensive counterfeit Scotch Whisky operation is uncovered in Columbia.
A factory has been discovered with several thousand counterfeit labels & bottle caps.
The whisky confiscated contains iodine & other noxious compounds!
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26th February 1924
An Advert for Peter Dawson's Scotch Whisky in the Lahore Civil & Military Gazette. It was marketed as "P.B" in its distinctive "Brambled & Dimpled bottle".
It was also famously Peter Dawson Whisky that was lost on the S.S Politician.
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25th February 1937
Mr James Collie(y), Manager of Towiemore distillery for 22 years passes away.
He began his career at his native Glenlivet, before becoming manager of Glenugie for over 13 years. Then moving on to Craigellachie and lastly Towiemore.
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24th February 1944
Mr James R Smith (pictured), manager of Glenrothes Distillery, is appointed as a director of the firm; he has worked there for the past 20 years.
When his late father Mr John Smith retired 15 years ago, he succeeded him as manager
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Image from Aberdeen Press & Journal, remarking on Mr Birnie's participation in a local chess final.
And of course for anything Glen Mhor, follow @glenmhorwhisky !
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23rd February 1946
John Birnie, former Provost of Inverness and 'the oldest distiller in Scotland' passes away at the age of 92.
He was manager of Glen Albyn before constructing Glen Mhor in 1893.

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23rd February 1923
A 1000 gallon vat of wash bursts at DCL's Glasgow premises, flooding three properties nearby. A boys feet were severely scaled and one woman was treated for shock.
Another Port Dundas related mishap!
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And if this isn't the sort of niche #WhiskyHistory nonsense you follow me for then I don't know what you want from me anymore 😂😂

Done a bit of mooching about archives tonight. And I've just found a picture of a Mr Robert Pass in 1984 from The Scots Magazine; with tomatoes that were grown in the greenhouses of The Glen Garioch Distillery, powered by its heat recovery system.

From the Westminster Gazette, 1899.
Not seen this one before.
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22nd February 1922
Pulteney distillery takes delivery of their new Merryweather petrol-worked fire engine.
Possibly similar to this 1932 vehicle from Dunkeld. Image © Shane Casey
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21st February 1895
The roof of a duty-free warehouse at Glen Rothes Distillery has collapsed under the great weight of snow. With all of their other warehouses being full, excise men are on watch at the site 24/7 to guard the currently homeless casks.
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