by administrator | Jan 22, 2011 | Miscellaneous
19. MR MASON TIDE SURVEYOR AND BOATMEN ON THE KINGS BOAT FURTHER LETTERS RELATING TO. Kings Boat at Kincardine Destroyed No 98. 23 May 1801 Honourable Sirs, We beg leave to transmit your Honors the enclosed letter this Day...
by Kennetpans Trust | Jan 20, 2011 | Stills
SHALLOW STILL c1786 This still was the distillers answer to dealing with the 1786 Amended Wash 1786 Amended Wash Act which taxed on the expected output of a still being discharged at a rate of once a day. The Steins experimented with several new designs of stills but...
by Kennetpans Trust | Jan 20, 2011 | Rabbie Burns
1759 – 1796 Burns life was intertwined with whisky, going from being one of Kilbagie’s best customers to the other extreme of becoming an excise man. Burns poem ‘The Jolly Beggars’ (1785) mentions “that dear Kilbagie” and vividly depicts the revelries of the...
by administrator | Jan 20, 2011 | Miscellaneous
Another amusing article we discovered about the River Forth was a report from the Kirk Session meeting on 3rd Jabuary 1694. It stated that two church elders came across a group of 40 – 50 people poaching on the river. If this was not bad enough in itself, they...
