400 years of Stroudwater Textiles

25/11/2016

Ian Mackintosh, a retired History teacher, was a founder member of the Stroud Preservation Trust and the Stroud Textile Trust. He will present the historical background to the story of the local mills, the local environment and the people involved.

 

 

Much of the Gloucestershire landscape would appear very different were it not for the wool trade and the woollen industry. The ‘wool’ churches of Northleach, Winchcombe, Cirencester might be less grand; the gracious houses on the valley sides might not exist, for many were built by clothiers with money from the trade. And in the valley bottoms, while there are still many mills, there were even more in the period 1750-1820.

The “five valleys” of Stroudwater, together with the Little Avon/Doverte Brook and the Ewelme/Cam contained almost 200 Mills in the industry’s heyday during the early Industrial Revolution

Wotton-under-Edge Civic Centre

2 Gloucester Street, Wotton-under-Edge, GL12 7DN

Friday 25 November 2016 at 7.30pm

Visitors welcome.

Non-members £5 on the door

Lectures at Wotton Heritage Centre

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