The Making of Tormore – Neil Gunn
Neil Gunn was a novelist. His life’s work was fiction but he was an understandable, coherent individual, reserved yet sociable,
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Neil Gunn was a novelist. His life’s work was fiction but he was an understandable, coherent individual, reserved yet sociable,
Read More“Some five years ago I received a letter from the late Lord Bracken (whom I had then not met)
Read MoreI want to use this post to double underline how singular the Tormore building is and how it would not have
Read MoreThe Tormore Connection Lewis Rosenstiel was an unpredictable boss. He was the only authority in his company but his decisions
Read MoreThe man who built Tormore was Lewis Rosenstiel, head of Schenley Industries, one of the biggest liquor companies in the
Read MoreOn the 20th July 1957, in Bedford, Harold Macmillan made a speech about rising prosperity and for the first time
Read MoreI thought I had closed my book on Deanston but what do you know – research is never finished as
Read MoreYou start with an interest in whisky but before you know it you are looking at cotton and the rise
Read MoreOutside the Talisker distillery there is a hut that sells good coffee and tray bakes. This morning, having driven up
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