D.W.D Jones Road Distillery - Fine Art Poster Print
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Faithfully reproduced, digitally remastered, 12″ x 10″ nostalgic fine art poster prints of 19th Century Irish Whiskey, Beer and Tobacco advertising. Designed in Victorian times for display in public houses and grocer shops, these posters were made to inform by advertising, illustrating fabulous artwork whilst promoting their products. This superb collection of high quality reproductions will serve as immensely attractive examples of a now largely forgotten form of art form.
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Jones Road Distillery
Dublin Whiskey Distillery Co. Ltd. (D.W.D) Dublin 1873 – 1945
This was the last wholly new distillery to be built in Dublin. It was established in 1873 on a greenfield site at Clontarf, beside the river Tolka, not far from the historic site where King Brian Boru routed invading Danish marauders in 1014.
Unlike some of its more famous cousins such as the Powers and Jameson Distilleries, this was not a family firm. Instead it was a limited company formed by a consortium of seven businessmen with no prior involvement in distilling. They installed the latest equipment and employed the best professional skills to manage the business. The Dublin Whiskey Distillers Co. Ltd (usually abbreviated to DWD) was registered on 28th January 1873 and the annual output in 1887 was just over half a million proof gallons, most of which was exported to England and its colonies.
Unfortunately this ultra modern distillery never fulfilled its potential. In 1891, less than twenty years after it opened, DWD joined forces with George Roe’s Thomas Street Distillery and William Jameson’s Marrowbone Lane company to form the Dublin Distillers Company Ltd. ( DDC ) Each member of DDC continued to produce Irish pot still whiskey under its own brand name, and was therefore often in direct competition one with the other. Little or no effort was made to dovetail activities. Stocks built up and a rota system had to be employed with two distilleries silent whilst one alone distilled for a season.
World War I, Irish Independence, Civil War and American Prohibition were to deal deadly blows to all three of these distilleries. It is likely that the Jones Road Distillery stopped full time distilling in 1926, however it appears that they may have continued distilling irregularly until 1945, hopeful of a revival in good times returned. However, the company was finally wound up in the late 1940’s.
After its closure, parts of the distillery fell into disrepair but the main complex block was converted around 1980 into the Tivoli Health and Leisure Centre. Bankruptcy forced its closure a year or so later. Obscurity followed until 2003 when the main complex was transformed into upmarket apartments, now known as Distillery Lofts.
Unlike some of its more famous cousins such as the Powers and Jameson Distilleries, this was not a family firm. Instead it was a limited company formed by a consortium of seven businessmen with no prior involvement in distilling. They installed the latest equipment and employed the best professional skills to manage the business. The Dublin Whiskey Distillers Co. Ltd (usually abbreviated to DWD) was registered on 28th January 1873 and the annual output in 1887 was just over half a million proof gallons, most of which was exported to England and its colonies.
Unfortunately this ultra modern distillery never fulfilled its potential. In 1891, less than twenty years after it opened, DWD joined forces with George Roe’s Thomas Street Distillery and William Jameson’s Marrowbone Lane company to form the Dublin Distillers Company Ltd. ( DDC ) Each member of DDC continued to produce Irish pot still whiskey under its own brand name, and was therefore often in direct competition one with the other. Little or no effort was made to dovetail activities. Stocks built up and a rota system had to be employed with two distilleries silent whilst one alone distilled for a season.
World War I, Irish Independence, Civil War and American Prohibition were to deal deadly blows to all three of these distilleries. It is likely that the Jones Road Distillery stopped full time distilling in 1926, however it appears that they may have continued distilling irregularly until 1945, hopeful of a revival in good times returned. However, the company was finally wound up in the late 1940’s.
After its closure, parts of the distillery fell into disrepair but the main complex block was converted around 1980 into the Tivoli Health and Leisure Centre. Bankruptcy forced its closure a year or so later. Obscurity followed until 2003 when the main complex was transformed into upmarket apartments, now known as Distillery Lofts.