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Old Photograph Glenkinchie Scotland
Old photograph of children and cottages in Glenkinchie village near Pencaitland in East Lothian about 15 miles South East of Edinburgh, Scotland. The whisky distillery here was founded in the 1830s by the brothers John and George Rate, was rebuilt in 1890 then again between the two World Wars. The name Kinchie is a corruption of De Quincy, the original owners of the land. Its origins date back to around 1825 when it was founded by brothers John and George Rate, While there are no direct records it seems likely that Glenkinchie is the Milton Distillery previous recorded in the area. The brothers probably renamed it in about 1837. In 1853, the Rate Brothers were bankrupted and the site converted to a sawmill.
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