List of Contents and Download Links
An Index to Newsletters 1-14 (1964-1970) and Annual Journals (1971-1999) is available: Click here
A List of Contents (and links) for the GSIA Annual Journals from 1971 to the present time is available: Click here
Each Newsletter can be downloaded as a PDF file
Use the ‘Find’ facility on your browser to quickly search for a particular word.
(Hint: The ‘Find’ facility is often invoked by pressing the Control and F keys simultaneously.)
Newsletter No. 1 May 1964 Top Download PDF (0.4MB)
Editorial 2
Local Research 3
A ‘Nuisance’ at Stroud, 1850, by I. Gray c 4-5
Brimscombe Boat-Weighing Machine, by R. D. Abbott 5-6
Gloucestershire Technical Information Service 6-7
Book Reviews 7-8
Society Visit to Stanley & Ebley Mills, near Stroud 9-11
Future Activities of the Society 12
Newsletter No. 2 August 1964 Top Download PDF (0.6 MB)
Editorial 1-2
Gloucestershire’s Railway Architecture 2
Stroud Valleys Improvement Scheme 2
Visit to South Wraxall & Bradford-on-Avon 3-4
Department of Technology, Bristol City Museum 4
Notes for the Visit to the Thames & Severn Canal – Saturday, September 5th 1964, by H. W. Household 5-9
Field Work Report 10
Lectures 10-11
Perils of Field Work 11
Society visit to the Forest of Dean 12
Scheduled Industrial Monuments 13
Extracts from Encyclopaedia Britannica 1796 14
Visit to Monmouthshire, 9th May 1964 15
A Steam-Engine at Cromhall, by I. Gray 16-17
Book Reviews 17-20
Newsletter No. 3 November 1964 Top Download PDF (1.3 MB)
Editorial 1
Milestones of the Stroud District, by C. Cox 2-5
Visit to the Stroudwater & Thames & Severn Canals 6-7
Correspondence 8
Membership 8
National Survey of Industrial Monuments 9
Industrial Archaeology Conference at Cardiff 10-12
Book Reviews 13
Industrial Archaeology in Bristol 13
Bristol ‘6 Miles’ 15
Gun’s Mill, by W. Marsh 15-17
The Lincolnshire Local History Society 18
Fieldwork 18
Council for British Archaeology Report Cards 19-20
Visit to Fairfield Engineering Co. Ltd.’s Works at Chepstow & Lydney Docks 20
Report on the Entrances to the Sapperton Canal Tunnel, by C Bishop, 21-25
1964 Christmas Cards 25
Chance Finds at the Chine, by E. Reinhold 26-27
Lectures in Stroud 27-30
National Trust 30
The Development of Lightpill Mills, Stroud, by R. L. Rose 31-36
Newsletter No. 4 March 1965 Top Download PDF (0.6 MB)
Editorial 1-2
Turnpike Houses Round Stroud, by C. Cox 3-9
Society Excursion to Chepstow, Lydney 9-11
Dross Building Blocks 12
Notes on the Capper Pass Family 13
Museums with IA Content 14-15
Spring Lecture Programme 16
Field Work 16-17
Summer Excursions 18
Bibliography of Industrial Archaeology 19
Book Reviews 20-21
Last Shipment of Forest Coal 21-22
Canals (school project) 22-24
The Woollen Industry of Stroud (school project) 24-25
Membership List 26-28
Newsletter No. 5 July 1965 Top Download PDF (1.3 MB)
Editorial 2-3
Society Excursion to Newnham-on-Severn, by W. Marsh 3-5
The Nettlebridge Valley, by G. S. Annis 6-8
City of Gloucester Museums 8
Stroud Valleys Improvement Scheme, by N. R. Collins 9-11
The New Passage Hotel, Pilning, by W. Marsh 12-13
Council for British Archaeology Report No. 14, by G. N. Crawford 14
Industrial History Competition 15
Archaeological Excavation at Haind Park Wood, by R. D. Abbott 16
The Nailsworth Kettle, by W. Marsh 17-18
Meetings of your Committee 18
Field Work, by L. F. J. Walrond and J. M. Strange 19-20
Coalbrookdale – An Extract from ‘The Severn Valley’ 21-22
Book Reviews 23-24
The Stone Industry of the South Cotswolds, by L. F. J. Walrond 27-28
Two Day Excursion to South Wales 28-29
Bristol College of Science & Technology – A Classification of Industrial Monuments in the Bristol Region 29-30
Some Aspects of Industrial Archaeology – Part 2 31-32
An Early Gloucestershire Railway, by D. E. Bick 32-36
Lectures in Stroud 36-37
Gloucestershire Technical Information Service (Books Added) 38
Index to Newsletters 1-4 39-41
Newsletter No. 6 November 1965 Top Download PDF (1.3 MB)
Editorial 1-3
The Kennet & Avon Canal (Excursion) 2-4
Excursion to Owlpen Manor, Uley 4-5
Stroud Lectures -Autumnl965 6 and 19
Milestones, by D. Cross 8-9
Industrial Archaeology in the Bristol Region: Bulletin No. 3 9-11
Correspondence 12
Book Review 13
Industrial Architects of the 19th Century 14-15
Gloucestershire Community Council – Local History Bulletin No. 11 16-17
B.B.C. Television Series 18-19
Lectures in Sroud Autumn 1968 19
Minutes of First Annual General Meeting 20-23
Valley Facelift 23-24
The Thames & Severn Canal Company Minutes 24-25
Excursion to Coalbrookdale 25-26
Excursion to South Wales 27-23
Industrial History Competition – The Navigation to Stroud 34-49
Kennet & Avon Canal Excursion 49-52
Newsletter No. 7 April 1966 Top Download PDF (1.1 MB)
Editorial 2
The Visual Appeal of Railways, by A. Clifton Taylor 3-4
S.E. Wales Industrial Archaeology Society 5
Correspondence 6
The Later History of the Stroudwater Canal (school project) 6-9
Local History Bulletin, Gloucestershire Community Council No. 12 10
Visits of Royalty to Woodchester, near Stroud 11
The Journal of Industrial Archaeology 12
13 History of Cast Iron Pillar Boxes in Great Britain, by G. N. Crawford 13-18
A List of Books, Papers etc. housed at Stroud Museum for the G.S.I.A. 19
Godsell’s Brewery, Salmon Springs, Stroud 21
Fieldwork 22
Lectures 23-25
Mills of the River Leadon and Tributaries, by G. M. Davies 26-43
Book Reviews 44-47
List of Members 48-53
Newsletter No. 8 August 1966 Top Download PDF (1.3 MB)
Editorial 2
Lecture Programmes 3-5
Visit to the Coombe Hill Canal 6
Some notes on the Turnpike Roads in the Berkeley and Dursley Areas. 1800 to 1830, by R. A. Lewis 7-10
Visit on 17th April 1966 to see Toll Houses, Turnpikes and Milestones in the Stroud District 12-13
Book Reviews 14-16
Chew Valley Industry, by B. Sydenham 17-19
Second South Wales Tour 20-23
Two Tewkesbury Bridges, by H. Wint 23-24
The Industrial History of Dudbridge 25-40rlrose Local History Bullein No. 13 40-41
Trip on Gloucester – Sharpness Canal – Saturday, 11th Jume, 1966 42-44
List of Members 45-47
Newsletter No. 9 January 1967 Top Download PDF (1.2 MB)
Editorial 2
Maps & Plans at the British Waterways Offices, the Docks, Gloucester 3-4
Minutes of Second Annual General Meeting 5-7 & 15
Lecture Programmes 8
Correspondence 10
Book Reviews 11-12
Society Visit to Staffordshire 13-15
Crumlin Branch of the Monmouthshire Canal 16
Glass Manufacture in Gloucester, by G. M. Davies 17-19
A History of the Maps of Gloucestershire, by G. N. Crawford 19-25
Some Notes on the Newent Coalfield, by D. E. Bick 26&29
Plans of Nubis Ash Tollhouse 27-29
Lectures in Stroud – Autumn 1966 30-33
Unveiling of a Plaque at Brimscombe Port 34-35
Summer Excursions 1967 35-37
List of New Members 38-39
Index to Newsletters 5-8 40-43
Newsletter No. 10 August 1967 Top Download PDF (1.2 MB)
Editorial 2
Processes in Hand-Loom Weaving, by I. Gray 3
Resignation of the Secretary 4
Mills of the Severn Vale, by G. M. Davies 5-15
Society Visit to the Leckhampton Hill Inclines 15-18
The Tramroad Inclines of Leckhampton Hill, by D. E. Bick 19-21
Visit to Buckingham & Stoke Bruerne 22-23
Society Visit to Messrs. R.A. Lister’s Centenary Exhibition 23-24
History of Western National Stroud Bus Services, by R. J. Crawley 25-27
Correspondence 28-31
A Hundred Years of Match Making – the Moreland Story 33-34
Visit to St. Marys Mill, Chalford 35-36
Visit of S.E. Wales Industrial Archaeology Society to Stroud 37-38
Visit to the Gloucestershire & Avon Tramroad 39-40
Visit to Stroud Brewery 40-41
River Severn Excursion to Stourport 41-42
Book Review 43-44
Lectures 1967/68 44-45
List of Members 46-??
Newsletter No. 11 February 1968 Top Download PDF (1.1 MB)
Editorial 2
A County Industrial Museum 3-11
Items on Museums 11-14
To Cutting a Screw Thread 15
Gloucestershire Machinery in the 1862 Exhibition 16-17
Woolweights 18 & 20
Book Review 19
Summer Excursions, 1968 20
Further corrections & additions to ‘Gloucestershire Woollen Mills’ (Jennifer Tann) 21-22
Lectures at Stroud Autumn 1967 23-25
Present Condition of the Mills of the Severn Vale, by G. N. Crawford 26-27
The Journal of Industrial Archaeology Volume 4 – Nos 3&4 27-28
Minutes of the Third Annual General Meeting 29-32
Stroud Sixty Years Ago 32-33
Interesting Conversions of Industrial Monuments 33
Correspondence 34
Gazetteer of Industrial Monuments in Gloucestershire 35
Colour Slides 36-38
County Industrial Museum – Progress up to Dec. 1967 39-40
Booklets 41-44
New Members 42-44
Visit to Savory’s Mill Painswick 45
Newsletter No. 12 July 1968 Top Download PDF (1.1 MB)
Editorial 2
Society Visit to the Forest of Dean 3
Society Visits -to Postlip Mills, Winchcombe 4-6
Society Cruise on the Birmingham Canal Navigation 6-7
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff 8
Tour of some I.A. Sites in Wiltshire & Berkshire 9
Conference – The Practice of Industrial Archaeology 10-11
Cheltenham Ornamental Ironwork Walk 11-12&17
The Great Western Railway Company New Town at Swindon, by I. M. Parsons 13-17
Correspondence 18-22
The Problems of Urban Recording 23-24
Book Review 24-26
Whitminster Mills, by R. A. Lewis 26-28
Surveying, by G. N. Crawford 29-39
New Members 39-40
Newsletter No. 13 February 1969 Top Download PDF (1.2 MB)
Editorial 2
The Stone Pipe Company – A Remarkable Georgian Fraud, by D. E. Bick 3-5
Gloucestershire Community Council – Local History Bulletin – Autumn, 1968 5-6
Journal of the S.E. Wales Industrial Archaeology Society No.3 6
Journal of Industrial Archaeology Vol.5. Numbers 3 & 4 7
Notes on Marshall’s Mill, Castle Foregate – Shewsbury – Society Visit 8-9
Pillar Boxes in Great Britain 9
Minutes of the Fourth Annual General Meeting 10-13
The Commercial Directories of Gloucestershire – A First List, by J. Farrant 13-15
National and County Directories, by J. Farrant 15-26
Society Tour of North Somerset – 13th July, 1968 27-28
Correspondence 29
Booklet Reviews. 13 30-31
Book Review 32
Report on “The Future of I.A. Conference” – Bath 33-34
Stroud Lecture Programme – Autumn 1968. Spring 1969 35
Cheltenham Lecture Programme – Autumn 1968, Spring 1969 36
Where Has The Water Gone (Thames & Severn Canal), by M. Neville 37-39
Proposed County Industrial Museum 40
Society Tour of Gloucester – Hereford Canal 41-43
Society Excursions in 1969 43
Civic Trust Newsletter 44
New Members 45
Index to Newsletters 9 – 12 46-50
Newsletter No. 14 February 1970 Top Download PDF (1.4 MB)
Editorial 2
Canal Records from Gloucester Docks 3-4
Some Textile Machinery Makers of Stroud, by R. L. Rose 5-13
An Atmospheric Engine House in Gloucestershire , by D. E. Bick 14-16
Protection of Industrial Monuments 17-19
Cone Paper Mill, Woolaston, by B. S. Smith 19-20
Mills of the Dean Forest Borders, by G. M. Davies 21-25
Book Review: The Thames and Severn Canal (Household) 25
Book Review: The Gloucester and Cheltenham Railway 28
Book Review: The Thames and Severn Canal (Espley and Young) 29
Book Review: Industrial Archaeology of the Bristol Region 30
Book Review: Industrial Archaeologists’ Guide l969-70 32
Archaeology of the Gas lndustry 34-36
Evening Visit to Bridges in Tewkesbury 36
Cruise on part of the Birmingham Canal Navigation 37
Visit to Sites in the Forest of Dean 38
Society Visit to Stapleton Road, Bristol and Seabank, Avonmouth, Gas Works 39
Brecon and Abergavenny – Canal Visit 40-41
Society Visit to Stone Mines in Wiltshire 42
Society Visit to Sites in North Worcestershire 43
A G.S.I.A. Member visits Devon and Cornwall 44-48
G.S I.A. Fifth Annual General Meeting 49-58