Glenside Distillery
Malt whisky distillers, Campbeltown
1830 The distillery was built and by 1837 was trading as David Anderson and Company. The firm changed its name to Glenside Distillery Company and this remained constant while there were frequent changes in the partners behind it. The involvement of the Orr family meant that, for a while, the proprietors were also running the Jura distillery under the firm of J. K. and D. Orr, as well as a commission agency in Glasgow for the sale of whisky, as John K. and Daniel Orr.
1886 Alfred Barnard visited the distillery, at which time production was 70,000 gallons per annum.
1905 'THE GLENSIDE DISTILLERY COMPANY, Campbeltown, of which the Trustees of the deceased John Kerr Orr and James Mitchell Orr were the sole Partners, was DISSOLVED....Robert Louis Orr, as sole surviving Trustee of the said deceased John Kerr Orr, having acquired right to the whole asset of the Company...'[1]
1908 The business was incorporated as The Glenside Distillery Company Limited.
1926 The distillery was one of the many that closed in the town at this time.
1930 The company went into voluntary liquidation.
1933 A new company of the same name was incorporated by the whisky blenders Charles Hepburn and Joseph D. Ross of Hepburn and Ross. It is not clear whether this had anything to do with any proposed revival of the distillery.
See Also
Sources of Information
- National Records of Scotland BT2/6953
- National Records of Scotland BT2/17511
- Pigot and Co.'s National Commercial Directory of the whole of Scotland and of The Isle of Man 1837
- Edinburgh Gazette 19 January 1849, 12 April 1867, 12 March 1872, 16 June 1905, 5 December 1930
- The Scotsman 18 February 1870, 14 October 1933
- Alfred Barnard "The Whisky Distilleries of the United Kingdom" (1887)
- Brian Townsend "Scotch Missed: The Original Guide to the Lost Distilleries of Scotland" (Fourth Edition 2015)
- David Stirk, The Distilleries of Campbeltown: The Rise and Fall of the Whisky Capital of the World (2019)