Description:Louis Sandy's three-storey 'Gordon Mills' textile distribution warehouse at 8, St. Patrick's Street., Stafford. Note the sign on the front edge of the roof.
It is thought that the building may date prior to 1881 when deeds and plans refer to warehouses erected on the site now St. Patrick's Street with Louis Sandy leasing it by 1907. In 1916 Louis Emery Sandy also had a business in Birmingham manufacturing shoe buckles and fittings. By 1924 he had a factory in Crooked Bridge Road, Stafford, as 'wholesale shoe-mercer (dealer in textile fabrics), box manufacturer and paper merchant'. In 1928 a letterhead from these premises described the Company as 'Wholesale Warehousemen and Shippers'. Part of the building is now (2025) home to 'Elite 2000 Fitness Centre'.