Kilbeggan Museum open day (10/9/2011) - Baby Daisy 2 vacuum cleaner label (c.1907)
The Baby Daisy 2 was a hand-operated mechanical vacuum cleaner made in Britain from 1904. It has a reciprocating bellows hand-operated by a long handle to create a vacuum and suck up dust, quite a revolutionary piece of household equipment in its day. It was a lumbering apparatus that took two persons to operate it, one to work the bellows and the other to do the cleaning using an assortment of nozzles. Both persons would have had to take turns as operating the bellows must have been very tiring!
John Locke’s distillery at Kilbeggan in County Westmeath is a working industrial heritage museum set up and run by local volunteers of the Kilbeggan Preservation and Development Association Ltd since 1982. In 1987 the site was bought by Cooley’s Distillery and in 2010 also secured the lease for the visitor’s centre there. To celebrate their one-millionth visitor, Locke’s Distillery Museum held a free open-day on 10th September 2011 which was well attended and a great success. Incidentally, the one-millionth visitor came from Germany.
Locke’s Distillery produces pure Pot Still Irish whiskey as well as having some 40,000 sq. ft. of storage space at Kilbeggan, also used for the storage and maturation of whiskey produced by Cooleys. Kilbeggan is also unique in having a 180 year old licensed pot still with a capacity to produce 25,000 cases a year of pot-still whiskey, most of it going to export. Since 2010 Kilbeggan distillery has also introduced its own full milling, mashing, fermentation and distillation processes carried out using more traditional methods.
education.gtj.org.uk/en/blowup1/14193 & www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/results.asp?image=10182730&am... (Photographs of a 1907 Baby Daisy vacuum cleaner).
www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/design-evolution... (Brief article on the history of vacuum cleaning and cleaners).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilbeggan_Distillery (A history of Kilbeggan distillery - founded 1757, owned by Matthias McManus from 1798, by John Locke from 1843 and closed 1957).
www.classicwhiskey.com/distilleries/lockes.htm (Locke’s Distillery museum - since its closure in 1957, the buildings and machinery there gradually fell into a state of disrepair as well as being plundered for scrap metal. In 1982 a restoration project began and has since then has been ongoing. Fortunately, most of the distillery equipment and machinery survived and if not for the restoration project, it would all certainly have been lost by now.)
www.advertiser.ie/mullingar/article/43620 (Mullingar Advertiser newspaper article - one millionth visitor to Locke’s Distillery Museum celebrations).
Kilbeggan Museum open day (10/9/2011) - Baby Daisy 2 vacuum cleaner label (c.1907)
The Baby Daisy 2 was a hand-operated mechanical vacuum cleaner made in Britain from 1904. It has a reciprocating bellows hand-operated by a long handle to create a vacuum and suck up dust, quite a revolutionary piece of household equipment in its day. It was a lumbering apparatus that took two persons to operate it, one to work the bellows and the other to do the cleaning using an assortment of nozzles. Both persons would have had to take turns as operating the bellows must have been very tiring!
John Locke’s distillery at Kilbeggan in County Westmeath is a working industrial heritage museum set up and run by local volunteers of the Kilbeggan Preservation and Development Association Ltd since 1982. In 1987 the site was bought by Cooley’s Distillery and in 2010 also secured the lease for the visitor’s centre there. To celebrate their one-millionth visitor, Locke’s Distillery Museum held a free open-day on 10th September 2011 which was well attended and a great success. Incidentally, the one-millionth visitor came from Germany.
Locke’s Distillery produces pure Pot Still Irish whiskey as well as having some 40,000 sq. ft. of storage space at Kilbeggan, also used for the storage and maturation of whiskey produced by Cooleys. Kilbeggan is also unique in having a 180 year old licensed pot still with a capacity to produce 25,000 cases a year of pot-still whiskey, most of it going to export. Since 2010 Kilbeggan distillery has also introduced its own full milling, mashing, fermentation and distillation processes carried out using more traditional methods.
education.gtj.org.uk/en/blowup1/14193 & www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/results.asp?image=10182730&am... (Photographs of a 1907 Baby Daisy vacuum cleaner).
www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/design-evolution... (Brief article on the history of vacuum cleaning and cleaners).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilbeggan_Distillery (A history of Kilbeggan distillery - founded 1757, owned by Matthias McManus from 1798, by John Locke from 1843 and closed 1957).
www.classicwhiskey.com/distilleries/lockes.htm (Locke’s Distillery museum - since its closure in 1957, the buildings and machinery there gradually fell into a state of disrepair as well as being plundered for scrap metal. In 1982 a restoration project began and has since then has been ongoing. Fortunately, most of the distillery equipment and machinery survived and if not for the restoration project, it would all certainly have been lost by now.)
www.advertiser.ie/mullingar/article/43620 (Mullingar Advertiser newspaper article - one millionth visitor to Locke’s Distillery Museum celebrations).