Blair & Martin became the successors to James Blair & Co. in 1798 and operated a brewery in Tobago Street, described by Barnard as "an ancient brewery celebrated for its ale, and the fine quality of its brew has been chanted in many a song".
Location: Greenock
Active: 1798 - 1824
Status: Dissolved
The Tobago Street Brewery was located at the junction of Tobago Street and Innerkip Street and was converted into a distillery in 1824.
What then became known as the Greenock Distillery remained in operation until 1915, and the site is now occupied by a post-Second World War housing development.
Books
Barnard, A. (1887) The whisky distilleries of the United Kingdom. London: Harper's Weekly Magazine.
Townsend, B. (2000) Scotch missed: Scotland's lost distilleries. Glasgow: Neil Wilson Publishing.
