Croan & Sons

Kipper factory beside Newhaven Fishmarket and Harbour

The Kipper Factory

Edinburgh at Work - Croan & Son, kipper factory, Newhaven

©  Copyright: Peter Stubbs                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Photograph taken June 20, 1991

 

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Croan's Kippers

History

Crabbies Green Ginger wine was made at Great Junction Street, Leith for many decades until the brewery (part of the United Distillers Group) closed around the 1990s.

I believe that the old brewery has now been converted to housing. The bottling plant beside it has been demolished.

1992

When I visited Crabbies Green Ginger in 1992, I saw the raisins in the large tank.  I was told that there was 'treading of raisins' by workers wearing Wellington boots on a Tuesday morning.  I thought that would make a good photo, so I took a Tuesday morning holiday and went back to Crabbies with my camera.

When I arrived, I was told: "Yes on Tuesday mornings, but only a couple of times a year."  I never saw the 'treading of the raisins' because production of Crabbies Green Ginger wine ended soon after my 1992 visit to the company.

 

Croan & Sons  -  kippers

Edinburgh at Work

   

 

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