No whisky in the jar

What do you do when you are hanging around waiting for a flight time?

Many years ago, moving into a new house, we discovered that a previous occupant had abandoned this under the stairs so we adopted it. For many years I smoked a pipe. I know! Even more disgusting was my habit of knocking out the pipe, so that the dottles fell into the jar that stood by the fireplace. I have no idea how much is in there - but now I have the garden hose and am trying to clean it out, since it is quite a nice piece of decoration.

Archibald Campbell specialised in brewing porter in the Cowgate in Edinburgh from 1710. In 1837, the firm was recorded as "Purveyors of Ales to His Majesty the King" (William IV), and held Royal Warrants from each of his successors until 1963. Louis Pasteur visited the brewery in 1871. Archibald Campbell, Hope & King Ltd was registered as a limited company in November 1896, to amalgamate the businesses of Archibald Campbell & Co and the Glasgow wine and spirit merchants and whisky blenders, Hope & King. The English brewer's Whitbread & Co took a stake in the company in 1965, and acquired it two years later. When it closed in 1970, its tied houses were sold to Drybrough's and Ushers.

This then would have held whisky from the Glasgow business.