Heber has been located in Belvedere Mill near Stroud in the ‘Golden Valley’, since 1984. Although Heber has been occupying the mill for nearly 40 years, this just a small part of the mills history.
The first recorded mill on this site was in 1439, comprising a medieval cloth making mill, dwelling house and associated land. By the 16th century the Hone family owned the mill, using it as a cloth mill and a corn mill. In the late 17th century, the mill was owned by the Tayloe family, again for cloth making.
The mill was passed through the Tayloe family to the Ballingers in the early 1800s. It is the Ballinger family who built the mill which is standing today, using it to dye cloth.
By the middle of the 19th century the mill was a corn mill, worked in the 1860s by the Gloucester firm of Reynolds and Allen. From the 1870s onwards the mill belonged to the Clark brothers, who occupied the site until WW1.
The 20th century saw multiple owners and uses for the mill, including the Belvedere Upholstery Works, furniture workshops (including making wooden gliders during WW2) and storage for Hamptons Cars manufacturing.
By 1972 the mill was empty, remaining so until 1974 when Marian Electronics, the previous incarnation of Heber, moved in. In 1984 the company name was changed to Heber, and the rest, as they say, is history!
