Old Photograph Whisky Distillery Tobermory Isle Of Mull Scotland

Old photograph of the Whisky Distillery at Tobermory, Isle of Mull, Scotland. The distillery was founded as Ledaig distillery in 1798 by John Sinclair, ten years after the founding of Tobermory by the British Fisheries Society. Sinclair had originally arrived in the village as a merchant dealing with soda ash from burning the locally available kelp. In April 1797, he applied for 57 acres to the south of the harbor in order to build houses and a distillery. The current buildings were constructed and were licensed in 1823. It was acquired by John Hopkins & Company in 1890, and by Distillers Company in 1916 before closing in 1930 following a drop in the demand for whisky due to ten years of prohibition in the United States. In 1972 it was reopened under the name of Ledaig Distillery Tobermory Ltd. In May 1975, production had to stop for a month as storage space for the whisky had run out. It closed again until 1989, and in 1991 it was purchased by Burn Stewart Distillers. Burn Stewart Distillers were bought out by Trinidad–based CL Financial in 2002, including the distillery at Tobermory and Deanston. It remains the only whisky distillery on the Isle of Mull, in the main village of Tobermory at the northern tip of the island.



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