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.
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Beards Mill and the Mender's Shop (Leonard Stanley) by Stephen Mills
The 'Menders' House is one of the few surviving industrial buildings on the Beards Mill site. It is likely to have been where small manufacturing imperfections in cloth were repaired. In the 1990s the building was converted into residential use.
The Mender's Shop at Beard's Mill from the south in September 1995