"Main Maltings, Showing a Row of Workmen's Cottages."

Maker
Unknown
Production date
Circa 1888
 Description
View from the south-west of the four-storey maltings with boiler house and chimney of James Aitken's Linlithgow maltings. Close by are single-storey and two-storey houses. In the distance is a railway signal and the spire of St Ninian's-Craigmailen Church, Linlithgow.
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Maker
Production date
Circa 1888
Subject person
Subject place
Maltings/Linlithgow/West Lothian
Subject notes
The Linlithgow maltings, which belonged to Aitken's Brewery, Falkirk, were built in 1875 on the site of the Mains Distillery. The buildings had a frontage of 58 metres. The top storey contained a barley loft. In the roof was a water tank supplied from a well in the meadow 200 metres deep. Converted into housing in 1980s.

The cottages were built by Aitkens for the maltmen and their families. The malt was conveyed to Falkirk by rail (the railway line is the Edinburgh-Glasgow mainline).

ROM A 21.05.
Accession number
P15084

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I was born in 1938 and, as a child, my family lived at “the Mains”. There were nine cottages, all of which were single storey, and it is incorrect to refer to part of them as being two storey houses. The upper level of the two storey buildings formed three single storey cottages facing north. The lower part of the two storey buildings (facing south) were offices and storage areas, including a basement, and these were used in connection with the operation of the Mains Maltings. During WW2 the basement was used as an air raid shelter for the families who lived in the cottages.

- Anne Mahoney (m/s King) posted 7 months ago.

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