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 5, ground floor, distilling columns
Larry Turner, ca 1986 DHD
Building 5, 2nd floor, distilling columns
Larry Turner, ca 1986 DHD
Building 5, 2nd floor, beer column & control panel
Larry Turner, ca 1986 DHD
Building 5, 2nd floor, control panel
Larry Turner, ca 1986 DHD
Building 5, 2nd floor, behind control panel
Larry Turner, ca 1986 DHD
Building 5, 3rd floor
Larry Turner, ca 1986 DHD
Building 5, 4th floor, distilling columns & grain hopper
Larry Turner, ca 1986 DHD
Building 5, 5th floor, hot water tank
Larry Turner, ca 1986 DHD
Building 6, fermenting cellar, tanks & tank bases
Larry Turner, ca 1986 DHD
Building 6, fermenting cellar, tanks above catwalk
Larry Turner, ca 1986 DHD
Building 6, fermenting cellar, tanks below catwalk
Larry Turner, ca 1986 DHD
Building 8, Maintenance
Larry Turner, ca 1986 DHD
Building 8, Maintenance with small molasses tank
Larry Turner, ca 1986 DHD
Building 8, Maintenance
Larry Turner, ca 1986 DHD
Building 9, Molasses tank
Larry Turner, ca 1988 DHD
Building 9, Molasses tank
Larry Turner, ca 1986 DHD
Building 9, Molasses tank
Larry Turner, ca 1986 DHD
Building 9, Molasses scale tank
Larry Turner, ca 1986 DHD
