Gloucestershire Photos by Hetty
30th July 2018 with Gloucestershire Society for Industrial Archaeology
On our way to see some mills, we passed the 17th century spectacle stocks
The Painswick Hotel started life in the late 1700s and was extended in the early 1900s to be the vicarage. In the 1950s it became a hotel and has had several names.
Wool drying tower
Quaker Meeting House, built early 1700s, modified late 1700s, closed 1894, re-opened 1952
Lovedays Mill– cloth mill then corn mill
Brookhouse Mill – cloth mill and dye house, then umbrella stick factory, then corn mill, then hairpin mill
Cap Mill – cloth then pins then saw mill
Skinners Mill was a corn mill (never a cloth mill)
The central part is from the late 1300s
Kings Mill– the older (left) part was rebuilt in 1818 as a cloth mill. The right side was built as a pin mill after 1860 – it made pins until about 1920
An interesting evening
More pictures of Painswick:
Walk – Stroud to Painswick, via Bull’s Cross