Scapa Distillery
Whisky distillers, Kirkwall, Orkney
1885 The distillery was established by Macfarlane and Townsend.
1898 The New Convalmore-Glenlivet and Scapa Distilleries Limited was incorporated to take over two distilleries at Banff and in Orkney, but the company appears to have been struck off a year later.
1903 Slater's Directory shows J.T. Townsend and Company as operators of the distillery.
1919 The Scapa Distillery Limited was incorporated, as a private company with share capital of £20,000, to acquire the business.[1]
1934 The company went into voluntary liquidation.
1936 Bloch Brothers, later Bloch Bros (Distillers) Limited, of Glasgow, bought the distillery for an undisclosed sum. There had been no whisky produced since 1931, but the Blochs planned to resume production almost immediately.[2]
1954 Canadian drinks giant Hiram Walker acquired the distillery when it took over Bloch Bros.
1987 Beginning with the purchase of Hiram Walker by Allied Lyons (later Allied Domecq), the Scapa distillery passed eventually into the hands of Pernod Ricard (in 2005).
1993 The distillery was mothballed, but brought back into production in 1998 through an agreement between Allied Distillers and Highland Distillers, who owned the nearby Highland Park Distillery, to operate Scapa for them.[3]
See Also
Sources of Information
- The Saturday Review 4 June 1898
- Edinburgh Gazette 14 July 1899
- Slater's Royal National Commercial Directory of Scotland 1903
- Edinburgh Gazette March 9 1934
- National Records of Scotland BT2/3889
- National Records of Scotland BT2/10735
- https://scotchwhisky.com/whiskypedia/1889/scapa/
- Alfred Barnard "The Whisky Distilleries of the United Kingdom" (1887)