Thrupp Upper Mill

Thrupp Mill on the River Frome consisted of two main mill buildings, the lower or main mill next to the Phoenix Foundry & Ironworks, and the upper mill.

The Upper Mill survived longer that the main lower mill and can be seen in a photograph dated c1900.

The present day view, looking to the left where the Mill stood, is now occupied by Howard Tenens although the site is still known as "Phoenix Mill".

The grey steel-clad factory building behind the trees to the right is Impcross Ltd. This is the site of George Waller's extensions to the Phoenix Works, and it is still a site of precision manufacturing excellence.

Close by there was a grassed area known as "The Meadow" where newly woven broadcloth was put out. This area is now covered by the car park of the adjoining Stroud Brewery but it is interesting to speculate that this is where Edwin Beard Budding and John Ferrabee pushed the first prototype of Budding's Mower from the factory for its first test run.