A look at Drybrough's brewery in Duddingston, the only remaining Victorian brewery in an area that was once a mecca for the production of Scottish ale. The brewery was closed in 1987, and since then a number of small businesses have moved into various parts of the site, the whole industrial complex now under threat of being turned into housing.
Duddingston's not a big place, but it once had seven breweries. Can we really afford to sit back and watch yet another part of Scotland's industrial heritage be effectively lost? Will the brewing of beer at Duddingston become a mere memory in the annals of time?
A lot of Scotland's tourism is based on whisky, and there are any number of visitor attractions that look at the whisky industry. Yet I cannot think of one major tourist attraction in Scotland that looks at the history and heritage of Scotland's brewing industry. Scottish beers were once shipped all over the world; it is an industry that once employed tens of thousands of men, and which today is a mere shadow of its former self.
I would like to see the industrial complex and buildings that once formed a part of Drybrough's Victorian brewery retained in their entirety with a view to transforming the site into a major tourist attraction that looks at Scotland's beer brewing industry. Drybrough's old brewery is now the only one left at Duddingston. Scotland doesn't have to lose yet another bit of its industrial past.
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