Photographer Larry Turner was hired by Hiram Walker – Gooderham & Worts in the 1980s to document the G&W distillery site in Toronto. Here is a selection from his extremely rare colour interiors and his black and white exteriors. The interiors are grouped by building. Larry Turner’s photographs of the Stone Distillery and nearby buildings include some of the only interior images of the distillery when it was still in use. By the mid-1980s, however, some of the functions had been shut down and various spaces emptied of their original equipment. For example, distilling whisky stopped in 1957, which resulted in the mill (Building 3) halting activity and mashing (Building 5) being discontinued. But since rum and industrial alcohol were still being produced, the fermenting cellar remained in use.
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Building 3, Mill (left) & Building 2, Boiler House (centre)
Larry Turner, ca 1988 DHD
Building 2: Boiler House, near east door
Larry Turner, ca 1988 DHD
Building 2: Boiler House, east side
Larry Turner, ca 1986 DHD
Building 2: Boiler House, centre
Larry Turner, ca 1986 DHD
Building 2: Jim White (left) in Boiler House
Larry Turner, ca 1988 DHD
Building 2: Boiler House workers’ mezzanine
Larry Turner, ca 1986 DHD
Building 3: Mill, ground floor
Larry Turner, ca 1986 DHD
Building 3: Mill, ground floor
Larry Turner, ca 1986 DHD
Building 3: Mill, 2nd floor with roller mills
Larry Turner, ca 1986 DHD
Building 3: Mill, 2nd floor
Larry Turner, ca 1986 DHD
Building 3: Mill, 2nd floor with grain chutes & elevator
Larry Turner, ca 1986 DHD
Building 3: Mill, 4th floor hopper & passageway
Larry Turner, ca 1986 DHD
Building 3: Mill, 5th floor attic
Larry Turner, ca 1986 DHD
Building 5 (left) & Building 3 (right) with railway tracks
Larry Turner, ca 1988 DHD
Building 4, Boiler House, ground floor looking east
Larry Turner, ca 1986 DHD
Building 4, Boiler House, ground floor
Larry Turner, ca 1986 DHD
Building 4, Boiler House, ground floor, west side looking up
Larry Turner, ca 1986 DHD
Building 5, former Engine House, looking south
Larry Turner, ca 1986 DHD
Building 5, ground floor, mash cookers
Larry Turner, ca 1986 DHD
