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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Leonard Stanley Tannery, A Preliminary Report by Stephen Mills
In 1991 the tannery was one of only a handful of its type that had survived in anything like its original form. A record was made of the buildings and machinery before the site was cleared later that year for housing to be built. Find out more.....
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