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Rare Japanese Whisky, a 1960 Karuizawa, Heading to Auction by Sotheby’s

A uniquely rare bottle of Karuizawa 1960 Cask #5627, known as “The Prototype,” will lead Sotheby’s Whisky &…
#EuropeSays #Japan #JP #FredMinnick #Japanese #Japanesewhisky #karuizawa #Karuizawa1960Cask#5627 #Nightcapseries #OsamiUchibori #sotheby's #TheFredMinnickShow #ThePrototype #vodkasucks #Whiskey #Whisky #Whisky&Whiskeyauction
https://www.europesays.com/japan/89093/

RE: https://mstdn.science/@ChemicalEyeGuy/117237757914709889

Love this!

Best buy up what you can though, @ChemicalEyeGuy and friends, I understand Donnie banned Canadian whisky and a bunch of other products today.

#ElbowsUu #Canada #TrumpTradeWar #TrumpTariffs #Trump #Whisky

FotoVorschlag: 'Objekte die mit "W" beginnen oder so aussehen ...'

Whiskey

Ein Kornwhiskey, von der Desert Diamond Distillery, in Kingman, Arizona

#FotoVorschlag #Whiskey #Whisky #Kingman #Arizona #Travel

#Video. Wild fish are at their limits. Can Scottish whisky waste save them?

This #Scottish startup saves wild fish by replacing them with #Omega-3 #algae fed on #whisky #waste

Are #farmed fish a sustainable choice? Many still depend on wild-caught fish for feed – algae grown on Scottish whisky industry waste could change that.

https://www.euronews.com/video/2026/08/03/this-scottish-startup-saves-wild-fish-by-replacing-them-with-omega-3-algae-fed-on-whisky-w

#Scotland #FarmedFish #fishing #salmon #FishFarm

Whisky renaît de ses cendres et prend en charge le Game Porting Toolkit 4 http://dlvr.it/TVKN6s #Whisky #JeuxVideo

Islay beyond the whisky: distilleries anchor the economy but farms, breweries and chocolatiers are thriving too

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/sep/02/scotland-islay-whisky-food-and-drink-holiday-hebrides

#travel #scotland #whisky

Whisky galore – and now plenty more besides: exploring the Scottish island of Islay
By Ailsa Sheldon

Distilleries are the backbone of Islay’s economy and tourist trade. Thanks to their success, other businesses – from breweries and farms to restaurants and chocolatiers – are now thriving and adding to the island’s appeal

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/sep/02/scotland-islay-whisky-food-and-drink-holiday-hebrides

#Scotlandholidays #UnitedKingdomholidays #Whisky #Travel #Food #Europeholidays #TheGuardian #AilsaSheldon

In Scozia lo buttavano. Un italiano bendato lo rese un mito.

👉 Storia completa qui https://wp.me/pey833-am2

#whisky #anni80 #pubblicità #glengrant #scotchwhisky #carosello

Superb Korean BBQ in Williamsburg https://www.diningandcooking.com/restaurants/16929/ #Food&Drink #KoreanBarbecue #KoreanRestaurant #KoreanRestaurants #newyorkcity #premium #whisky

Every time you crack open one of these beauties, you start to think 🤔 so which one is the best one in the series? Which do I need to restock?

Well they are all tasty AF but right now my money is on the 2018 😆

@kererubrewing "Night Spirit Imperial Stout has been aged more than 10 months in #whisky casks that held very special NZ single malt whisky for more than 20 years."

#stouturday #CraftBeer #BarrelAged

Aus gegebenem Anlaß muß ich noch einmal darauf hinweisen, was die beste Art ist, Whisk(e)y zu trinken (sorry youtube):

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tegvnZXj8mQ

#whisky #whiskey #howtolivelife

Canadian #whisky made in Canadian barrels
https://nationalpost.com/feature/unlikely-secret-to-crafting-authentic-canadian-whisky/wcm/a11053b4-88c0-4ad6-98fd-6b0a03a8f913

#NationalPost

@bytebro

"Wiser's" is correct. It's now owned by a French company, though most would still call it a Canadian product, and is made in Canada.

They make a number of different types, from Canadian rye whisky to a 100% corn one, Tennessee style. I'm afraid I can't recommend one, as I haven't been a whisky drinker for, oh about four decades, when an incident in my youth turned me off the stuff 🌈 🥱

😉

#whisky #CanadianWhisky #RyeWhisky

A wee treat tonight.

Ardnamurchan Tokaji finish, NC, NCF, 52%, distilled in 2018 and bottled in 2026.

So much orchard fruit on the nose: bright green apple and pear, with hints of tropical banana and floral notes. Silky and rounded on the tongue, with stone fruit, sweet spice, a touch of saltiness and gentle oakiness. Lingering honey and peach, with a slightly peppery finish.

#whisky #scotland #ardnamurchan #singlemalt

Statt 42 Euro künftig unter 30 Euro: Die #DresdnerWhiskyManufaktur senkt ihre Preise radikal und eröffnet einen Verkaufsraum neben #PfundsMolkerei. #Dresden #DresdenNews #Neustadt #BautznerStraße #Whisky #Preissenkung #SingleMalt #GlenAllachie #DresdnerKaffeeundKakaoRösterei https://www.diesachsen.de/dresden-news/dresdner-whisky-manufaktur-eroeffnet-in-der-neustadt-und-senkt-die-preise-3171155?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=publizer&utm_content=textlink

@sumisu I’m up for consuming some #whisky, or possibly an #OldFashioned.

Rauchig-torfig kann ja in #Whisky lecker sein, in Atemluft aus 220 km Entfernung vermutlich eher nicht.

#Waldbrände #Klimakrise

https://www.rnz.de/region/metropolregion-mannheim_artikel,-Rhein-Neckar-Brandgeruch-aus-der-Eifel-erreicht-die-Region-_arid,2405245.html

I have an #alcohol problem. I was gifted a lovely set of tiny whiskies from long gone destilleres years ago, and I've just realized that almost all had their membrane thingy dry out. The metal twist-off caps were now unbroken but loose, and the alcohol had evaporated. This wasn't visible, since the bottles were colored black. I was left with smokey bath water. The angels clearly got their share.

#whisky

Air mo dhòigh glan 's gun d'fhuair mi an cothrom seo fheuchainn an-de aig a' Whisky Fringe.

Taigh-staile Caledonian Dhùn Èideann, nach maireann, 1964. Abair dramag!

Over the moon to have tried this rare Caledonian 1964 grain whisky from Edinburgh's closed Haymarket distillery. Lovely!

#Whisky #WhiskyFringe #Edinburgh #Gaelic #Gàidhlig #Scotland #urban #MastoDaoine

Il y a 20 ans : Floyd Landis présente une nouvelle explication à son contrôle positif https://www.cyclisme-dopage.com/actualite/2006-08-09-nouvelobs.htm #cyclisme #dopage #FloydLandis #TDF2006 #Testostérone #whisky #cortisone

Enjoying two fingers of Belvenie Doublewood in #Glasgow

#Whiskey
#Whisky

Der Feddie Single Malt Whisky entsteht
auf der norwegischen Insel Fedje. Vier Jahre reift er in 200-Liter-First-Fill-Bourbon- und 250-Liter-First-Fill-Oloroso-Sherryfässern. Kein Kältefiltrat,
keine Farbstoffe – nur Bio-Gerstenmalz, Wasser, Hefe, hochwertige Fässer und Zeit.

Das Ergebnis: Eine klare Balance aus süssen Fruchtnoten, leichter Würze und einem langen, wohltuenden Abgang. Die maritime Luft und das raue Inselklima geben ihm seine erfrischende Komplexität.

#whisky #fedje #norwegen

What do WhistlePig Whiskey, Glenmorangie, and Ardbeg have in common?

Let me tell you.

As you may be aware, LVMH is the parent company of both Glenmorangie and Ardbeg. Back in 2020, LVMH also acquired a minority stake in WhistlePig. The two release from 'The Vault' I now possess are a result of that.

The two releases are:

The Boss Hog III - Bonfide
The Independent
Straight Rye Whiskey Aged 20 Years
Finished In Highland Single Malt Casks
52.7% ABV

The Boss Hog III - Bonfide
The Independent
Straight Rye Whiskey Aged 19 Years
Finished In Islay Single Malt Casks
53.2% ABV

No prizes for guessing the Highland and Islay casks.

I photographed them along with my bottle of the original Boss Hog III - The Independent. Mine was barrel 11, 14 years old, 60.1% ABV.

Basically they took some remaining spirit from The Independent bottling run and re-casked it for some extra aging. I have seen nothing about these releases out there to date.

I've been a fan of Whistlepig since Dave Pickerell brought the first releases to Julio's Liquors many moons ago. The original 10, the 111, Boss Hog I, etc. I still have those, and nearly everything Whistlepig has released to date. I'm a long time fan.

I say that because now I have to tell you that Whistlepig has botched this experience to the point of it being laughable.

My LVMH rep reached out to me about these releases in early November 2025 as they are limited, direct-sale bottles. I thought about it and decided to pull the trigger in December. Whistlepig finally confirmed the order January 15th, and said delivery could take up to 16 weeks.

Guys, I can get whiskey shipped from anywhere in the world faster than that. You're in VT, I'm in MA, give me the option and I'll drive up to get it.

But, fine, I'll wait.

OK, May rolls around with no word, so I ask my rep about them. He was as surprised as I was that I had not received them. He looks into it, and the order is still processing. Very strange.

He went back and forth with them and they were apologetic. May 28th I received a shipment from Whistlepig - a bottle of the 15 year Estate Oak and two Simon Pearce glasses to apologize for the delay.

Very nice, and I appreciate it, but I'd really just like the two bottles.

My rep had to keep chasing, and by mid-June he had to go all the way up to the Chief Marketing Officer to push things forward.

June 22nd the Highland finish arrived. Islay still a ghost.

July 31st the Islay Cask arrived.

Huzzah!

But it doesn't end there. The cases have a slot inside the cover for a Certificate of Authenticity. My Glenmorangie finish has one, but the Ardbeg finish is missing its certificate. My rep is chasing that down.

There is another issue. These are not inexpensive bottles, and the way they were packed left a lot to be desired. The outer shipping box was sized such that the cases had to be on their side when the outer box was upright. Anyone who ships whisky regularly knows you want the bottles to be upright as much as possible.

The Glenmorangie bottle wasn't too worse for the wear, but the Ardbeg bottle seems to have had a rougher trip. When I opened the case the bottle was askew, sitting diagonally, stopper down. The brace that holds the neck on the bottle had been wrenched free from it's position by whatever impact moved the bottle. Fortunately it doesn't appear to have leaked and I was able to push things back into position.

Whistlepig, I like your products, but if you're going to try to get into the luxury market like this you're going to need to improve the process. As a 'concierge' sale product, the experience has left a lot to be desired. My LVMH rep has been stellar throughout the whole thing, but there should have been no need to chase things for eight months, and counting for that certificate.

I'd love to see you succeed, so take this as constructive criticism, please.

I normally don't mention the cost of things, but apparently there are still bottles of these available if you really want one, and hopefully your experience will be smoother than mine.

The Glenmorangie finish was US$3,750 and the Ardbeg finish was US$3,500. They're direct sale so you might need contact with an LVMH rep.

I will be trying these soon, alongside the original.

#Whiskey #Whisky #Whistlepig #Glenmorangie #Ardbeg

Eat your veggies, maybe? >>

This Scottish startup saves wild fish by replacing them with Omega-3 #algae fed on #whisky waste | Euronews

https://www.euronews.com/2026/08/03/this-scottish-startup-saves-wild-fish-by-replacing-them-with-omega-3-algae-fed-on-whisky-w

Uamh an Uisge, Eilean Mhuile.

Larach poite-duibhe ann an uamh mara.

The 'whisky cave' on the coastline in Mull.

#Whisky #WhiskyWednesday #UisgeBeatha #Gaelic #Gàidhlig #Scotland #Scotch #archaeology #MastoDaoine #IsleOfMull #Argyll #photography

@photography

I picked these up recently directly from Wild Turkey. A couple of Bruce's Picks ryes.

#Whisky #Whiskey #Rye #WildTurkey

100 years ago today: #onThisDay #history #newYorkTimes #whisky #arsenic #mercury #quinine #diptheriaAntitoxin

I suppose with this administration's constant #grifting and skimming and product placement, it was inevitable we would get actual product endorsements.

Jack Daniels has now released the special collectible "Whiskey" Pete Hegseth edition of its famous bourbon. Get one while they last!

#JackDaniels #PeteHegseth #PeteKegbreath #Hegseth #Kegbreath #collectible #hydration #bottle #whiskey #whisky #bourbon #USPol #advertising #endorsement #alcohol #Tennessee #Lynchburg #booze

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So ca. 1995 hatte ich eine Schwäche für #whisky und aus dieser Zeit sind mir ein paar Reste geblieben, die jede Übersiedlung mitgemacht haben und seither in jeder Wohnung Platz verstellen.

Aber ich denk mir halt, dass ich irgendwann eine der Flaschen aufmachen werde und mich fühlen werde wie damals. #Nostalgie

Heute habe ich es getan und ich muss sagen: ich mag schon den Geruch von Whisky nicht.

Fühlt sich so #erwachsen werden an?

Educating Children, Bakers and Tourists: the thread about Castlehill Public School

Preamble. The schools of the “School Board” era of public education (1872-1918) have for some reason a particular fascination for me, one which is more profound where they are either no longer in use as schools or have disappeared entirely. This thread began as a couple of lines for my own notes about each of the “Lost Board Schools of Edinburgh” but rapidly snowballed into an intention to cover each, in alphabetical order, on its own and in rather more detail, but not so much that they can’t be posted quite frequently.

The third chapter of our series looking at the “Lost Board Schools of Edinburgh” investigates the life and times of Castlehill School. This occupied the site of the Gordon House, the 17th century residence of George Gordon, 1st Duke of Gordon who was Captain and Constable of Edinburgh Castle and is remembered for surrendering that fortification all too readily to the Protestant Lords during the Glorious Revolution of 1689. His property came later into the possession of the Bairds of Saughtonhall who gave their name to Blair’s Close that forms the western boundary of the school plot.

The school was designed by Robert Wilson, architect to the Edinburgh School Board, and was a radical departure in style from its rather austere Collegiate Gothic contemporaries by the adoption of Scots Baronial Revival; complete with turrets, crowstepped gables and mock battlements. This was seen as more befitting of its prominent location at the head of the Old Town. Another change was the use of red Cornockle sandstone from Lochmaben in Dumfriesshire to add a visual contrast with the more usual yellowy-grey from the local Hailes Quarry.

A third change from its predecessors was the extension from two to three storeys; an attic level, lit by rooflights, providing rooms for teaching specialist subjects such as needlework and drawing. This was done to make the best use of a cramped site which amounted to just quarter of an acre; half that of the contemporary Milton House School in the Canongate and even less than the notoriously cramped Bristo Public School. (The only other three storey board school before this was West Fountainbridge, which had a similarly small plot)

Internally, three original mantlepieces from the Gordon mansion were incorporated into staff rooms as was an old entrance door. To the rear (south), the site dropped steeply away down the slope of the Old Town’s Crag and Tail topography. An additional level was therefore required, originally this was an open colonnade, providing a covered extension to the playgrounds, but later it was enclosed to provide additional teaching areas. A tall retaining wall faced onto Johnston Terrace at the rear, with entrance staircases (separate for boys and girls) up to the playgrounds and a three storey Janitor’s house bridged the two levels.

The school opened on Monday December 3rd 1888. Although there was no formal ceremony to mark the occasion, over 800 pupils were marched out of their old schools (those inherited by the School Board at Brown Square, Borthwick and Old Assembly Close and Victoria Terrace) up the hill to their new home. A formal opening would take place exactly 5 months later on May 3rd 1889.

Interestingly, the legend carved prominently into both the front and read façades reads “CASTLE HILL SCHOOL”, even though it was nearly always officially referred to as one word, just Castlehill, a change that was also reflected in the Ordnance Survey maps around the time.

From the beginning the school was also used for evening education. But – maintaining the theme of being different – at Castlehill this was not for adults. Instead it catered only for children under 14, pupils given special dispensation by the School Board to attend evening school on account of them needing to work during the school day to help support their families. In 1898 there were 212 boys and girls so registered. In 1890, the school’s first headmaster, John Davidson, resigned on account of poor health. In May 1898 headmaster William C. S. Hunter died and was replaced by James C. Anderson of Leith Walk School. His salary of £340 being equivalent to around £38,400 in 2025 and his “reign” was formally inaugurated with a presentation by Colin G. Macrae, chairman of the School Board, and concert at the school on Wednesday 1st June that year.

The school and its pupils suffered as a result of the harsh social conditions in Edinburgh’s Old Town in the late 19th and early 20th century. Headmaster Anderson was one of a number of his peers in the district who in spoke publicly in 1904 on “how drunkenness [of parents] affects the children“. 150 of his pupils were on the “food roll” due to the inability of their parents to feed then, with a further 30 receiving relief from the district fund. This was almost a quarter of the school and other children of leaving age (14) were being taught with 7 year-olds on account of how much schooling they had missed. Anderson put this down to drunkenness which he said was getting worse, as was thriftlessness. In 1908, under the terms of the Education (Scotland) Act of that year, the School Board instituted a meal scheme for necessitous children, each receiving a bowl of soup and bread during their school day. This was a great success and was expanded in 1911 by converting West Fountainbridge School into a dedicated central cooking centre. One hundred children from Castlehill were among the first recipients to benefit, but as their school lacked a dining hall they went to the Independent Labour Party Hall on Melbourne Place to eat. The tickets for these dinners issued daily at school to encourage children deserving of the meals to actually attend their lessons. They could also be purchased for 6d a week; with a little bit of liberal rounding they became known as “penny dinners“.

Feeding was not the only effort made to improve the lot of the children of Castlehill. In 1908 permission was gained by the School Board to adopt a piece of ground on Johnston Terrace next to the Church of Scotland Normal School (a teacher training college) for use as a playground, that at the school being completely insufficient in size and aspect. In 1909, under the auspices of Patrick Geddes’ Edinburgh Social Union, a patch of wasteland on Johnston Terrace was converted by pupils at the school into a model demonstration garden of their very own. Geddes established numerous such gardens, believing them as living classrooms for teaching both biology and self-improvement. Vegetable plots 150 feet long and 7 feet wide grew potatoes, peas, beans, cauliflowers, cabbages, turnips, leeks, onions, carrots, lettuces and other salad vegetables which were used in cookery classes in the school. This space was used for teaching natural history lessons and the principles of crop rotation. It also allowed the school to apply for a valuable additional grant for teaching gardening from the Education Department.

The next year, 1910, headmaster H. F. Sim brought the first case of its kind in Edinburgh to the City Police Court under the Children Act 1908, when two shopkeepers were charged with and pleaded guilty to selling “smoking mixture” to to children under the age of 16. Sim had caught boys in the school trying to smoke a pipe filled with the ersatz tobacco and confiscated from them their paper bag marked “The Boys’ Smoking Mixture and Pipe: price One Halfpenny“. On questioning, he had found from them where they had acquired it and reported the matter to the city’s Medical Officer of Health. The magistrate admonished the defendants and said “a warning should be given to tobacconists that the sale of such a mixture was an illegal practice, and that in other cases of the kind the offenders would certainly be punished.“

In October 1912, to remedy a lack of accommodation in the school, the adjacent ancient tenement known as Cannonball House – the last block of old Castlehill – being acquired by the Board for £1,925. It had recently been bought by the Cockburn Association with a view to preservation and the Board spent £3,500 thoroughly renovating and converting into additional teaching spaces. Its four principal classrooms could accommodate 180 children and there were special rooms for practical subjects such as cookery. In the basement were “spray baths“; showers for the children, most of whom lacked even basic domestic sanitation in their homes. The building was substantially altered, with one wing and the old Blair’s Close removed to improve ventilation and daylight. A number of original 17th century features were uncovered during restoration and were retained and installed in the fabric in new locations, making the end result something of a chimaera. The east gable is the biggest give-away way that not all is what it seems with this apparently old tenement; look for the tall classroom windows and the Edinburgh School Board emblem high up on the pediment.

In WW1 the school was requisitioned by to act as a depot and billeting for soldiers of the 5th Royal Scots based out of Edinburgh Castle. The Church of Scotland Young Men’s Guild was given the use of a room the following year to run a canteen and recreation room for them, with a gramophone, games, books, newspapers and writing materials. A teacher at the school, James Bathgate, was injured on war service in July 1915 when serving as a private with the College Company, 4th Royal Scots, in France. In April 1917, Headmaster Sim lost his son, Charles Henry Stuart, who died in hospital having been fatally injured serving with the Royal Field Artillery.

After the war, in April 1922, Headmistress Miss C. E. Anderson retired and was presented with a gold wristlet watch from the parents and her colleagues and a diamond brooch from the pupils. She had been teaching the children of the area since the school opened – a record period of 41 years!

In 1936 a new technological front in teaching was opened up at Castlehill when a room was specifically converted for the use of the Edinburgh branch of the newly instituted Scottish Educational Film Association for the production of educational films. It had been recognised that technology had a part to play in education – in 1931 a group from Canonmills School had been given a trial lesson on the theme of sound recording and reproduction at their local cinema – but further progress was wanting on account of a lack of suitable films for the classroom. The Education Committee thus resolved to make them for themselves: as well as providing the studio for the Association, they also covered the (then) substantial overhead of film costs and in return had a controlling say in the content of films. The first production was a four-part geography film entitled “The Port of London“. The Association would remain at Castlehill until 1957, when they moved to Boswell’s Court.

On the morning of September 1st 1939, children showed to schools all over the city with their coat, a bag or case and a cardboard label – they were being evacuated. Some 200 gathered at Castlehill before heading to Waverley station and destinations unknown. The school remained open for those children that stayed behind and there were still 273 on the roll in September 1940. The logbook records the peculiarities of an education during wartime; there were separate air raid shelters for infants, girls and boys; all children had to carry their gas masks with them; there were weekly gas mask drills and weekly marching drills to and from the shelters.

Additional wartime uses were found for the partially vacant school. A central depot for clothing for evacuees was established in October 1939; donations were received and sorted before being distributed to those in need who had been evacuated and found themselves wanting during their “enforced holiday to the country“. This was organised by Miss Cairns, Superintendent of Domestic Subjects for the Corporation, and she had 50 sewing mistresses from across the city under her direction. The supply of children’s coats proved insufficient and so these “clever-fingered” women picked apart the excess of larger items, cut them down to the required sizes and put them back together again. They were joined by women of the Edinburgh Personal Service League who performed a similar operation for men’s clothing, to be sent via the Red Cross to injured servicemen and prisoners of war. Wartime cookery classes were run in the school by the Corporation’s night school teachers. These were aimed at women to try and instruct them in how to eke out their rations, substitute various items that were off ration to recreate old favourites and how to do so more healthily and with less waste of fuel. Mrs Gray of the Women’s Voluntary Service (WVS) established a group of like-minded women to make soft toys and dolls and clothing for babies and toddlers who were being cared for in public nurseries, their mothers being on war work. Most of these things were no longer being manufactured during wartime. Such was the success of this endeavour that it later relocated to a dedicated workshop at Bristo School as the Nursery Equipment Centre.

Postwar, a shock announcement in May 1951 broke news that the school was to be closed at the end of that term. It had been built for 800 but as a result of the long term urban depopulation of the city it was down to 293 by this point; there was plenty excess capacity to rehouse them at Milton House, Tollcross and South Bridge schools for the same reason.

A secondary reason behind the closure was that the authorities wanted to establish a Central School Of Bakery and Catering where apprentice workers from the city’s important baking industry (as well as more general cookery and catering) could undertake industry-specific further education. Parents protested the decision but the Corporation was unmoved and voted by 14 to 5 for closure. Its only concession was to promise crossing guards to help children navigate the busy roads that they now needed to transit on their way to their new schools.

The bakery school opened on Monday 19th January 1954, Councillor H. A. Brechin performed the honours and stated “these new premises, together with the modern equipment, give Edinburgh one of the most up-to-date baking and catering schools in the United Kingdom“.

It did not last long however and as a result of changes to further education and the city’s industries, it was closed by 1970. While it once again sought a purpose, during the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh that year it served as a temporary museum of regimental history at Edinburgh Castle. In 1971 the main building was converted to offices for the City Engineer’s department and would later be occupied by the Drainage Department of Lothian Regional Council. Between 1972 and 1974 it was also the home for the Theatre Workshop, an arts and drama centre for children, while it was found permanent premises.

In August 1986, Lothian Region accepted an offer for £250,000 from William Muir distillers who proposed to convert the former school it into a whisky museum and heritage centre. £2 million was spent on this project which opened its doors on 3rd May 1988, the building’s centennial year. It was an instant success and is now into its 5th decade of offering a very different sort of education than that the building’s planners had in mind.

Cannonball House was retained by the Education Department when the main building became the bakery school and was used for community education, passing to Lothian Regional Council on the formation of that organisation. In 1984 a Children’s History Centre was opened and the building was later properly converted by the Region for £200,000 for use as a schools education centre modelled on Patrick Grddes’ ideas; the Castehill Urban Studies Centre. It was the first such centre in Britain and I recall school trips there in the early 1990s, the name of the guide was Mrs Quick – I’m not sure why that name stuck with me, but it did!. Between 1999 until the opening of the new Scottish Parliament at Holyrood in 2004, Cannonball House was used as a schools education centre for the temporary parliament housed in the General Assembly Hall of the Church of Scotland on the Lawnmarket. In 2013, 100 years after it opened as part of the school, it found a new life as a high-end restaurant by the Scottish-Italian Contini family, who themselves had started out in Scotland a century before.

Want to read more about Edinburgh’s Lost Board Schools? The previous chapter was about Canonmills School.

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Calling all whisky enthusiasts in RTP! I've been meaning to do this for a while, but finally set something up.

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Calling all whisky enthusiasts in RTP! I've been meaning to do this for a while, but finally set something up.

I know of Bull City Bourbon Club, but I haven't found a general place for whisky fans to hang out in the Triangle, so I decided to make it!

Join and say hi.

Sláinte 🥃

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Calling all whisky enthusiasts in RTP! I've been meaning to do this for a while, but finally set something up.

I know of Bull City Bourbon Club, but I haven't found a general place for whisky fans to hang out in the Triangle, so I decided to make it!

Join and say hi.

Sláinte 🥃

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#RTP #NCTriangle #whisky

Calling all whisky enthusiasts in RTP! I've been meaning to do this for a while, but finally set something up.

I know of Bull City Bourbon Club, but I haven't found a general place for whisky fans to hang out in the Triangle, so I decided to make it!

Join and say hi.

Sláinte 🥃

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#RTP #NCTriangle #whisky

Calling all whisky enthusiasts in RTP! I've been meaning to do this for a while, but finally set something up.

I know of Bull City Bourbon Club, but I haven't found a general place for whisky fans to hang out in the Triangle, so I decided to make it!

Join and say hi.

Sláinte 🥃

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