Bourne Mill, Stroud
Stroud
Bourne Mill may be the building recorded below Bourne's Bridge on the River Frome in 1608, which comprised a house, two fulling mills and a rack place in 1690.
By 1777, the site seems to have become known as Grime's Mill and continued to be used for the production of textiles throughout the late 18th and early 19th century, although the mill included a corn mill by 1822.
By the mid-1860s, the mill was occupied by Richard Grist & Co, mattress, mill-puff and shoddy makers, but they evidently left by 1901, when the site was occupied by a firm of cabinet makers.
Between 1912 and the 1960s, the mill was used by H. S. Hack Ltd. for the production of umbrella and walking sticks.
1971 the mill comprised two early 19th century stone buildings and was occupied by a number of small businesses engaged in screen printing, metal polishing and the manufacture of flexible moulds.
2024 One of the mill buildings is occupied by The Ark Cycles Ltd. It is located close to London Road, onn a slice of land between the Thames and Severn Canal and the railway embankment.
N.B.
Another site in Stroud was also known as Bourne Mill - this one lay south of the London Road and close to the confluence of the Toadsmoor Brook and the River Frome.
1784 it was held with the Dark Mill property
1813 it was held by Thomas Howell, the cloth manufacturer of Griffin's Mill.
By 1870, it had become a saw mill.
From 1877 to about 1930, it was worked as a saw mill by the Philpotts family.
From 1940, the site was occupied by the Olympic Varnish Co., which moved there from Enfield (Middlesex) under an industry dispersal scheme.
1948 This firm rebuilt and extended their premises
1971 The firm employed about 30 people in coating and water-proofing fibreboard for use in the motor, travel-goods and electricity industries
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Saint James's Chronicle - Saturday 15 December 1827
- [1] Digital Stroud