Bellfield Distillery Co
Kirkintilloch
1895 The buildings of the disused Bellfield Chemical Works, on the banks of the Forth and Clyde Canal, were adapted as a whisky distillery by Oakley Keith Wauchope and his brother-in-law James Samuel McCall, trading as the Bellfield Distillery Company.[1]
1897 Wauchope retired from the business in December.[2]
1898 The Bellfield Distillery Company Limited was incorporated, with capital of £20,000, to acquire property at Bellfield, Kirkintilloch, and the business, property and effects of the Bellfield Distillery Company.[3]
1900 The company went into voluntary liquidation in December.[4] To some extent the business was the victim of bad timing, as the crash of the Leith firm of Pattisons Limited brought an end to the late Victorian whisky boom.
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Kirkintilloch Herald 21 August 1895
- ↑ https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/10944/page/1241
- ↑ Glasgow Herald 21 May 1898
- ↑ https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/11258/page/1319
- National Records of Scotland BT2/3873
- Brian Townsend "Scotch Missed: The Original Guide to the Lost Distilleries of Scotland" (Fourth Edition 2015)