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The End of Match Making in Gloucester

  

Ultimately, foreign competition with its abundant supplies of raw materials close at hand proved too much. The old match factory, which had been taken over by Wilkinson Sword, closed in 1975.

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Morelands Trading Estate, Bristol Road

 

The site was re-opened in 1978 as the Moreland's trading estate after being bought by Stonehouse Investments Ltd.

 

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