Kirkcudbright Creamery

As long ago as December 1919, a meeting was convened in Gatehouse for the purpose of considering the question whether a co-operative creamery should be erected so that the farmers in general might reap the full benefits of their labour and do without the middleman. The meeting in December 1919 was well attended, and the matter was enthusiastically taken up.

In the early 1920s Sir Charles Hope-Dunbar gave them the site, extending to 2½ acres, at a most reasonable rate, and they now saw the result of the committee's labours. The work on the creamery was started in February 1921 following plans started in 1919. the Chairman of the Stewartry Dairy Association Ltd. said at the opening ceremony in October 1921 that it might be of interest to to know that the creamery alone had cost up to date £9,600. It was a lot of money, but at the same time they hoped that within a year or two it would be money more than well spent. They had a membership of 120, with, they hoped, one or two more to come. Within a month or two piggeries would be erected. Pigs would not only be a valuable by-product, so to speak, but would provide a means of getting rid of whey.
(The creamery was then opened by Lady Hope-Dunbar who made a short speech, as did several other dignities.)

It was closed 2 years ago with the loss of 121 local jobs. (It was the Town's biggest employer.) Councillors have gone against officer advice and approved plans to build 36 houses on the site of a former creamery in southern Scotland.

Social landlord DGHP wants to construct the properties on the old Milklink factory land in Kirkcudbright.

It shut down two years ago and the local community council wanted the area to be kept for industrial use. However, planning councillors have given the green light for the project to proceed on the site.

It had been thought that as this piece of land had long been established as the town's only real prospect for business, it should be kept for commercial redevelopment.

A sad sight to see the demolition (see my blipfolio for more)