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Robinhood Street, GLOUCESTER, GL1 5PW

To the left is the old Moreland's match factory, where England's Glory matches were made up until the mid - 1970s. Further along, the road is an odd mix of residential and industrial use, including the haulage yard where I spend most of my nights.

Morelands made "Englands Glory" matches here until the 1970s. The large factory is now separate business units with this punningly named cycle shop in one corner. Just the place to alight from your bike.

This is the former England's Glory Moreland's Match Factory on Bristol Road in Gloucester. The building was founded in 1868 and largely rebuilt by E A Pryer in 1911-12. The building is now a trading estate. As a child I can remember passing this building at night in a car with the sign illuminated. As a footnote to this, at Christmas time 2012 I bought a box of England's Glory matches and was amused by the words 'Made in Sweden' on the lower part of the logo on the front of the box. The words are as large as the brand name above it. Is this symbolic of Britain's manufacturing decline!

The area's main industrial survival is Moreland's Match Factory, "founded 1868, mostly rebuilt by E.A. Pryer, 1911-12". Now Moreland's Trading Estate, above the sign of which are references to the building's origins.

Now this is a small trading estate. But originally, it was the home of England's Glory matches, made originally by Samuel J Moreland who built a factory not far from here in 1867. This building was erected in 1911, a few years before the company was taken over by Bryant & May. Matches were produced here until the 1970s. There's a good deal of local support for illuminating the "England's Glory" sign, which was originally lit at night but which has been switched off since the factory closed.

This is all that remains of the Gloucester Carriage & Wagon Company's 1937 works. The company was in operation for 126 years and built all manner of railway rolling stock. At its peak 2400 people were employed here. Much of the 11 acre site has now become a rather depressing retail park, complete with litter - strewn car park and a boarded up cinema, and these buildings are the only tangible reminder of a bygone age. Well, that and the fact that the road junction near here is known as "Wagon Works Junction".

The office block of the former timber works of Price, Walker & Co. Built in 1893-94 by the aptly-named W.B. Wood. At the time occupied by a tile shop, Tileflair.

A mural on the side of a building belonging to Mitchell's, an air conditioning company.