Welcome to the Gloucestershire Society for Industrial Archaeology (GSIA) website. The Society was formed in 1964 to study and record the history and physical remains of Gloucestershire industries.
Details of our activities, together with copies of our Journal articles and various pages relating to the County’s industrial past may be seen by following the relevant links in the sidebar and drop-down menus above.
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The Centenary of Casein by John Morgan
Plastic materials produced from caesin, a protein found in milk were used extensively in the 20th century as the raw materials for the manufacture of small components such as buttons, piano keys, dominos and the like. Stroud was one of the major areas for the production of caesin plastics and Lightpill Mill the biggest factory. Find out more.....
< Lightpill Mill seen from the south (Date not known)