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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Harriett: Last of the Kennet Barges by Stuart Bryan & Judith Hague
Harriett was built in 1898 in the hamlet of Honey Street, on the Kennett and Avon Canal between Devizes and Pewsey, She spent much of her working life with Fred Ashmead & Sons of Bristol Docks before being deposited at Purton in the 1950s.
Harriett in the Purton barge graveyard on 24th May 1992