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By 1658 it had a dye house, a gig mill and two fulling stocks.

It then consisted of a gig mill, two fulling mills and a dye house.

By 1770 the premises had expanded to include a house, four fulling mills and a gig mill.

By c1800, the Norton family were there, by which time it had been reconstructed to house two fulling stocks and a gig mill.

It had two fulling stocks, a gig mill and in addition, a grist mill, not an uncommon combination.

Within a few years that mill housed a gig mill, four fulling stocks, as well as picking, shearing and press shops.

The main target at the height of the riots in 1802 was the gig mill, but that was because very few shearing frames had as yet been introduced.

The gig mill, which eventually became known as Thrupp Mill, was leased to Edward Ferrabee in 1793.

At the turn of the 17th century, St Mary's Mill consisted of two fulling mills, a gig mill and a grist mill.

Ford Mill in 1725 was a fulling mill, gig mill, and grist mill, with racks, a furnace, presses and workhouses.

At the time, the mill, which was powered by the Painswick Stream, was engaged in the cloth trade, as it housed two fulling stocks and a gig mill.

From 1958 to 1962 Trotman attended Gig Mill School, Stourbridge, Worcestershire, where he was in the same class as Kay Partridge, now Dame Kay Davies.

In 1778, with the local industry in decline, owner Benjamin Edwards overstretched himself by building six new tenements (still existing as the stable block, Doncobe Mill Cottage) adjoining his fulling and gig mill.

She was born as Kay Elizabeth Partridge and educated at the Gig Mill School, Stourbridge County High School for Girls, Somerville College, University of Oxford and Wolfson College, Oxford.

This was a fulling mill where woollens were finishing and cleansed through scouring and beating circa 1486; a Clothiers in 1524 and with the intervention of the Industrial Revolution, a tucking mill and gig mill in 1730 (64 1969).