Lochruan Distillery
Malt whisky distillers, Prince's Street, Campbeltown
1835 Established by Robert Johnston and Charles Rowatt Johnston, trading as Johnstons and Co.
1867 The distillery was acquired and rebuilt by John and William McKersie and thereafter the business traded as the Lochruan Distillery Co. The McKersies were also the proprietors of another Campbeltown distillery, Albyn, which traded as William McKersie and Co.
1886 On his visit to the town, Alfred Barnard recorded production as being 85,000 gallons per annum.
1919 The business was purchased by W. P. Lowrie and Co, which had served as agents for the business. In 1925 Lowries was itself acquired by the Distillers Co during further rationalisation of the industry. The distillery closed in that year.
See Also
Sources of Information
- Pigot and Co.'s National Commercial Directory of the whole of Scotland and of The Isle of Man 1837
- Alfred Barnard "The Whisky Distilleries of the United Kingdom" (1887)
- The Scotsman 19 May 1920
- 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)