Site of the last productive woollen factory in Frome (Frome)

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Frome had many cloth mills which grew out of the former cottage / outworking approach to producing cloth, knitted stockings, etc.
This is the site of former 'Tucker's Best West of England Cloth' Mill which survived right up until the 1960s. Most of the former mill was largely unused for many years, though it is now in the process of being re-developed for 'mixed-use'.
(The closure of Tuckers didn't mark the final demise of 'weaving' on the site, as part of mill was modernised to produce carpets from made-made fibres throughout the 1970s - into the early 1990s (ie Venture & then Coloroll carpets) - latterly supplying all of its production to probably the largest carpet retailer in the UK, Allied Carpets.
Other former mills can be found in Trinity, Spring Gardens, Keyford and in the Christchurch areas of the town - though all have now been converted to other uses, including housing or other industrial uses (usually a number of smaller firms using part of a given complex); that is if they survived the ravages of time and 'so-called progress'.
Others have had varying uses over the years, such as Houston's Mill in Robins Lane. From wool to plastics (Marley's doors, film, floor covering etc) to multiple commercial uses to then becoming a small trading estate.
But it was the woollen mills which made some in Frome very prosperous, and which gave rise to the resistance by the workforce to the ever-creeping mechanisation as the Industrial Revolution gathered momentum.
Some Luddites understandably combined with their fellows from Trowbridge, Westbury & other West Wilts towns with a not dissimilar history and industrial-base, as they saw their livelihoods under attack, and the woollen textile industries gradually become ever more concentrated in Yorkshire).
A book by Peter Bentham - 'The Making of Frome' is definitely worth a read.