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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The Old Dock House at Sharpness and its Occupants by Hugh Conway-Jones
This was the Harbour Master House and was built substantially as it stands today in 1853. Unoccupied since the late 1980s it was restored by the Severn Area Rescue Association in 1996 for use as their Sharpness base.
The Old Dock House in 1996 following restoration