Welcome to the Gloucestershire Society for Industrial Archaeology (GSIA) website. The Society was formed in 1964 to study and record the history and physical remains of Gloucestershire industries.
Details of our activities, together with copies of our Journal articles and various pages relating to the County’s industrial past may be seen by following the relevant links in the sidebar and drop-down menus above.
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Gloucester Folk Museum and the Mechanisation of the Pin Industry by Nigel Cox
The buildings now occupied by the Gloucester Folk Museum are one of the City’s oldest surviving and most important industrial sites and were, from 1743 to 1853, the pin manufactory of Cowcher, Kirby, Beard and Tovey. The firm were early experimenters in the 1820s in the use of automatic pin making machinery. Find out more.....
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