Griffin Mill, Stroud
From Graces Guide
of Stroud
The Griffin family owned the mill for at least two centuries, between 1599 (when it is first recorded) and about 1799.
Until c.1838, cloth was manufactured at the mill. It was then converted into a saw mill.
By 1856 part of the site had been converted to the production of umbrella sticks by the Hooper family.
1899 Sale of the saw mill plant of Hooper Brothers.[1]
This (umbrellas) continued until at least 1935.
Another part of the mill was occupied by Tylers Ltd., cabinet makers, who remained there until 1956 or later.
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Sources of Information
- ↑ Stroud News and Gloucestershire Advertiser - Friday 12 May 1899
- [1] Digital Stroud