Burches Mill, Stroud

of Stroud

1677 Little Mill included two fulling mills and one gig mill on the Slad Brook.

By 1733, there was also a corn mill on the site. The mill became part of the Birches estate and was often known as Burches Mill.

1846 "To be let or sold with two water wheels."

1856 Cloth was made here until 1856, when it briefly became a saw mill.

From 1863 until the 1890s, it was a corn mill owned by the Ockford family and known as Ockford's Mill.

1890 Slad Mill was built next door.

1898 Burches Mill was bought by a cabinet maker.

1905 Burches Mill burnt down.

From the 1920s Burches Mill was the home of Dick Reyne's Austral Garage with its fleet of buses.

The name later changed to Bellamy's Garage.

By the 1960s, a plastics factory covered part of the site, and the rest of it was shortly to be a GPO Depot.

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Slad Mill doubled in size in the early 20th century. The building was occupied by a clothing factory under the name Hound Brand.

By 1929 The firm had gone into liquidation. Then an animal food manufacturer moved in.

1936 They failed

1937 Henry Baughan established an engineering business. The firm made motor cycles and cars at a factory in Piccadilly Mill and later specialised in extrusion technology. They were sold in 1975.

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Sources of Information

• [1] Digital Stroud