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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Gloucester Lock - Opened 200 Years Ago by Hugh Conway-Jones
The lock was the gateway into the docks for traffic using the river Severn to and from the Midlands. One of the main cargoes carried was coal. The lock was deepened in 1892 and a pair of intermediate gates fitted to save water with shorter vessels.
Gloucester Lock looking south into the Docks from the River Severn (August 2008)