Old Photograph J & G Stewart Scotch Whisky Merchants Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of J & G Stewart Scotch Whisky Merchants in Edinburgh, Scotland. Situated between Nelson's Parkside printing works and Holyrood Park was the distillery belonging to J & G Stewart, one of whose products was the famous Cream of the Barley whisky. The company also had premises in West Nicolson Street, in the building known as Peartree House, formerly West Nicolson House, in which the poet Thomas Blacklock had entertained both Robert Burns and Dr Samuel Johnson during the late eighteenth century. Part of the building is now called The Blind Poet in his honour. During the nineteenth century, this building had been used by Thomas Usher, Distiller and brother of the famous brewers mentioned above, who left £100,000 in his will to build the Usher Hall in Lothian Road.



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