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Glenrothes - Buckets, Boots, Pots & Pans

On the 15th May 1922 200,000 gallons of maturing whisky went up in smoke. The No.1 cask warehouse was destroyed by fire and as each cask exploded the whisky poured into the Burn of Rothes, which runs through the village.

A hearsay story recalls how the villagers, armed with all sorts of receptacles, scooped up the whisky from the river for consumption later and, in some instances, there on the spot. An old angler retold a wonderful story of how the trout that evening were easily reeled in being docile from the Glenrothes 'spirit'.