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
1919 The Scapa Distillery Limited was incorporated to acquire the business
1934 The company went into voluntary liquidation
1936 Bloch Bros, later Bloch Bros (Distillers) Limited, of Glasgow acquired the distillery and resumed production
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).
See Also
Sources of Information
- The Saturday Review 4 June 1898
- Edinburgh Gazette 14 July 1899
- 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)