Lightly Peated

The Making of Tormore – Why Richardson? Why Bracken?

I want to use this post to double underline how singular the Tormore building is and how it would not have

The Tormore Connection Lewis Rosenstiel was an unpredictable boss. He was the only authority in his company but his decisions

The man who built Tormore was Lewis Rosenstiel, head of Schenley Industries, one of the biggest liquor companies in the

On the 20th July 1957, in Bedford, Harold Macmillan made a speech about rising prosperity and for the first time

I thought I had closed my book on Deanston but what do you know – research is never finished as

You start with an interest in whisky but before you know it you are looking at cotton and the rise

I never promised that this blog would be in any way current. Never promised to keep my finger on

Outside the Talisker distillery there is a hut that sells good coffee and tray bakes. This morning, having driven up

One of the great post-war writers on architecture and the built environment was Ian Nairn. He was passionate, idiosyncratic,

I haven’t been to the Isle of Wight for very many years and maybe it has changed so it