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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