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Winston Churchill

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Scotch Missed, The Lost Distillerires of Scotland, Brian Townsend,2000

Scotch Missed, The Lost Distillerires of Scotland, Brian Townsend,2000

The North

Ben Wyvis (aka Ferintosh), Dingwall (1879-1926)

Gerston, Halkirk, Caithness (1796-1882)

Gerston II (aka Ben Morven), Halkirk (1886-1911)

Glen Albyn, Inverness (1844-1986)

Glen Mhor, Inverness (1892-1986)

Glenskiach, Evanton, Easter Ross (1896-1926)

Man O'Hoy, (aka Stromness), Orkney (1817-1928)

Millburn, (aka Inverness) (1807-1988)

Old Clynish / Brora, Brora, Sutherland (1819-1983)

Pollo, Delny, Easter Ross (1817-1903)

Fife

Auchtermuchty, (aka Stratheden) (1829-1926)

Auchtertool, near kirkcaldy (1845-1927)

Drumcaldie, Windygates (1896-1903)

Grange, Burntisland (1795-1925)

Scotch Missed
The Lost Distilleries of Scotland
3rd revised and updated edition
by Brian Townsend



Brian Townsend details the remnants and ruins of almost every Victorian working distillery in Scotland. In this new edition he has fully updated the most recent closures and has sourced over 35 new archive photographs of many of Scotland's lost distilleries. The distilleries featured vary from the remnants of once great industrial concerns such as Saucel Distillery in Paisley to a mere tumble of bricks and mortar lying in a remote location like Glen Tarras at Langholm. Over the length and breadth of Scotland, its greatest export has left its mark and this book is a tribute not only to those who struggled against great odds and were finally beaten, but also to those who survived and have prospered. Townsend's detailed research brings to life a large portion of Scottish industrial heritage which would otherwise have been ignored and he has enlivened this with interviews of the last people to work those long gone stills. He has also tracked down the whisky which in some cases still exists and the book is fully illustrated with records past and present of this remarkable trade.

Brian Townsend is a native of Brechin and was educated in Britain and Switzerland. He is a journalist and author of The Lost Distilleries of Ireland.