DO you remember the R.A. Lister Factory in 1983?

Or can you identify the mystery house in the photograph sent in to Stroud Area Photographs and Cotswold Picture Postcards on Facebook by Ian Stockwell?

On Wednesday July 27 1983, during the main factory shutdown, the largest fire in R.A. Lister's history happened at the Dursley works.

It started at lunch time in the main office block and burned down the Commercial, Financial and Parts and Services Offices together with the pipe shop and the Applications workshops.

The Sales and Marketing departments were also badly damaged.

The fire was attended by Lister's own Dennis fire engine and others from local brigades, all of them doing a sterling job to contain the blaze.

However all-in-all 75,000 sq.ft. of workshops and 50,000 of office buildings were lost requiring temporary replacements or use of alternative space in other existing buildings.

If you have any old photographs please send them to matthew.holmes@newsquest.co.uk