Cooperage Workers At Ainslie Baillie & Co Distillery 1922
1922
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John Jack Burgess (standing, far right).
John Jack (Jock) Burgess lived in Manderston Street and worked as a cooper at Ainslie Baillie & Co in Leith for a while before moving to the Stenhouse area where he worked at the North British Distillery Co in Slateford.
During World War One Jock served in the Royal Navy, travelling to South America and the Fauklands.
[see also 0547-002 and 0547-003]
Donor number: 0547-001
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