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21st April 1963
Towser, the legendary Mouser of Glenturret distillery is born.
The well-known TV personality, friend of royalty and terror of the mouse world, patrolled the distillery for nearly 24 years, controlling its rodent problem with 28,899 kills in her career. 🐾🥃
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21st April 1934
The distillery of James E. Pepper, Lexington Kentucky, is burnt to the ground. One life was lost and the damage though to be around four million dollars.
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20th April 1888
"There was shipped from Raproaig Distillery (Laphroaig I'm sure) 96 casks of whisky. The heaviest shipment ever made in one day from this distillery."
From the Campbeltown Courier.
Image: Bessie Williamson,owner of Laphroaig assesses the spirit safe in 1965.
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19th April 1984
96 year old Bob Ogilvie visits Glen Grant distillery, where he first started work at the turn of the century, to enjoy a dram of their 1951 vintage with warehousman Dennis Innes.
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are reported as the biggest scandal seen by the City for half a century.
It is a well documented topic, I recommend the Peter Pugh book (pictured) if you want to learn more!
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18th April 1986
Guinness takes control of D.C.L. with an unconditional £2.6bn offer; after a long battle with The Argyll Group.
In the aftermath, the Guinness Chief Executive does jail time for fraud, and the dodgy dealings carried out to complete the deal

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17th April 1893
From the Campbeltown Courier
Ardlussa Distillery.
CONTRACTORS are Wanted for the Joiner and Roofing of a New Warehouse which is going to be built at this distillery. The Contractors can see the Plans at the Distillery Office.
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16th April 2003
Edrington Group sells Glengoyne distillery and its Lang brands to Ian McLeod and Co. The price is not revealed but is understood to be around £8 million. This follows the previous week's sale of Bunnahabhain to Burn Stewart distillers.
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15th April 1939
Pulteney Distillery is advertised for sale in The Scotsman.
By this point it had been closed for 9 years and would not reopen (thanks to the second small disagreement) until 1951; being bought by local solicitor Robert Cummings
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Advert for Dewars Scotch Whisky, 1898. From original material preserved in Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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A fabulous looking bridge and some fantastic advice! I'm going to try and do a bit of exploring this year of some old distillery sites to see if I can get some updated images of my own.

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14th April 1913
John Robertson is fined 30 shillings for being found in the cask yard of Bo'ness distillery with intent to steal whisky by tilting returned casks & draining the dregs yesterday.
Messrs Calder 'were much annoyed by these Sunday visitors'.
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13th April 2000
Dewar's World of Whisky officially opens at Aberfeldy.
Image: Actor Michael Mackenzie in the guise of Tommy Dewar, on hand to give a ghostly tour of the new experience.
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the site is also just a stones throw from Strathclyde distillery.
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Image ©HES John R Hume 1967

Included are 2302 gallons of plain spirit, as well mash tuns, wash backs, stills, worms and receivers.
The site operated from 1844 until 1849. It was located on the banks of the Clyde, on the site of the UCBS bakery in this image over St Andrews Suspension Bridge,

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13th April 1849
The whole effects belonging to Mr John Watt Hedderwick, Maltster & Distiller at Woodfoot Distillery, Govan Street Glasgow are advertised for sale at auction in the Glasgow Gazette, in virtue of a warrant for arrears of duties.

Image: Looking south onto Stockwell St, 1914 ©Riverside Museum
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13th April 1927
Stockwell Street in Glasgow was the scene of a 'Bacchanalian orgy' caused by three casks of whisky being knocked off a lorry after crashing into a tramcar. Mugs, flasks and hats were used to scoop and soak up the liquor from the street.

'So brilliant were the flames that not only the western side of the city, but also every crag and peak of the castle was bathed in its lurid light'.
The distillery was closed permanently in 1988.
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the mill itself, mash house and granary were all destroyed. Six of the eight wash backs perished, but the stills and still house (pictured) survived. Estimated costs of the damage are £30,000.

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12th April 1856
The brand new Caledonian Distillery, of Messrs. Menzies, Bernard & Craig near Haymarket station is considerably damaged by fire.
The site was due to start distillation in the coming week, but due to the overheating of a shaft in the mill,

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11th April 1930
Tommy Dewar of John Dewar & Sons Ltd, dies age 66.
He was also the longest staying guest of the Savoy Hotel, London.
Here he is on a camel in 1899, on tour promoting Dewar's whisky. 🐫🥃
'Keep advertising and advertising will keep you'.
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Raising a glass to Mr. Stewart Hunter Laing ❤️🥃

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10th April 1874
The Elgin Courant reports that the 'old buildings of Linkwood distillery are being pulled down to be replaced by new' more extensive buildings'.
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Image: The Dallas Dhu distillery team in 1899, with Groucho Marx sat on that cask?
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9th April 1939
The stillhouse at Dallas Dhu is completely burnt out by fire just 3 years after reopening.
It'll be another 8 years before it starts production again, mainly due to the advent of the second small disagreement of 1939-1945.

He's sketched two random blokes in the courtroom hasn't he ? 🤣

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8th April 1901
Messrs Robert and Walter Pattison, Managing Directors of Pattisons Limited; the Leith whisky distillers who insolvency the year before last attracted a great deal of attention, were arrested today. Later released on bail at £1500 each.
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Mashman Mr Jim Lawson hard at work, and Distillery Manager Mr Robert Arthur enjoying a dram.
© The Scotsman Publications Ltd (SCRAN)
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