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The Making of Tormore – Neil Gunn and the SNP

Posted on November 7, 2019November 14, 2019 by David

The Origins of the SNP The history of political parties with all their conflicts, splits, ideological  positions, and power plays,

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The Making of Tormore – Neil Gunn

Posted on September 12, 2019 by David

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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The Making of Tormore – Finding a Site

Posted on June 25, 2019June 25, 2019 by David

  “Some five years ago I received a letter from the late Lord Bracken (whom I had then not met)

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The Making of Tormore – Why Richardson? Why Bracken?

Posted on May 12, 2019May 16, 2019 by David

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

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The Making of Tormore – Brendan Bracken

Posted on April 25, 2019May 8, 2019 by David

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

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The Making of Tormore – Lewis Rosenstiel

Posted on March 21, 2019March 24, 2019 by David

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

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The Making of Tormore – Introduction

Posted on March 20, 2019May 8, 2019 by David

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

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Deanston Linked With Loch Lomond

Posted on October 9, 2018May 8, 2019 by David

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

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Arkwright and Deanston

Posted on September 26, 2018September 27, 2018 by David

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

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Deanston

Posted on July 31, 2018 by David

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

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