Casks Collection

Glenlivet Scotch Whisky distillery 1890
Six thousand barrels of whisky in a bonded warehouse on the ground floor, Edinburgh, Scotland, proprietors Andrew Usher and Co. 1890

Cider maker, Somerset, England
A cider maker wearing a trilby hat and an apron, leans on an old wooden wagon and drinks a pint of cider among the casks and barrels in the outbuilding of a cider works in Somerset

Some shorages and how they are dealt with 1918
Shortage of skins and hides in Scotland, using trousers for their bagpipes. Shortage of iron hoops for wine casks. Please note

Wine bottles and casks, D Oliveiras Lda, Madeira, Portugal
A display of wine bottles and casks at the firm of D Oliveiras Lda in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal

The Cooperage
This etching shows a cooperage, the premises of a man, seen in the shadows, who specialises in the manufacture of wooden casks, barrels, buckets and other similar containers. Date: circa 1918

Advert, Brown & Co, Glasgow, Scotland
Advert for Brown & Co, Iron Packaging, Cisterns, Casks, Pails etc, Wigton Street, Glasgow, Scotland. 1905

Vaults under London docks 1870
Under the London Docks covering eighteen acres, were the finest vaults in the world, vast catacombs of the precious vintages garnered from every famous vineyard in the globe

Lowering casks into cellar 1900
Lowering casks into publicans cellar in London. Date: 1900

Crosfields soap works, Warrington 1886
Various scenes in order of the interior and exterior of Joseph Crosfield & Sons, Soap Works at Bank Quarry, Warrington, Cheshire. Date: 1886

Pouring cider in cider barn at Dunkertons cider, England
A man pours cider from a barrel into an earthenware jug in the cider barn at Dunkertons Cider, Herefordshire, England Date: 1988

Railway station at San Juan, Argentina, South America
Railway station at San Juan, western Argentina, South America, a wine-producing region, hence the barrels. Date: circa 1906

Wine vaults, Italian Swiss winery, Asti, California, USA
Oak vats in the wine vaults, Italian Swiss colony winery, Asti, Sonoma County, California, USA. Date: circa 1950

People at the Italian Swiss winery, Asti, California, USA
People on a guided tour of the Italian Swiss colony winery, Asti, Sonoma County, California, USA, looking at huge Redwood storage tanks in the million gallon wine cellar. Date: circa 1950

Solano Winery Inc, Cordelia, Solano County, California, USA, showing the salesroom entrance and white oak casks built in 1853. Date: circa 1937

Plantain Walk - Bookkeeper - Watchman and Hut - man with casks of water / greattoe in stirrup. Date between 1808 and 1816

Guinness Brewery, Dublin - Scald Bank
Unloading empty casks at the Guinness Brewery, Dublin - Scald Bank. Date: 1920

Horse Sledge on Ice
A horse pulls a sledge laden with casks along the ice

Publican Repents, 1864
The landlord of the Grapes tavern empties casks and smashes bottles in the cellar, in order to repent the evils of his intemperate profession

Roman Boats
Roman river boats used to carry casks, doubtless of wine

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