By the time the mills were slowly coming to an end here, the hand weavers at Leri were the last of their kind in Wales. During the 1960’s this fact was partly what drove much of their customers to the shop and museum to make the most of this, with worldwide mail order taking up much of the winter production. It wasn’t until November 1980 that the mill closed in its entirety. Several clues point to the structure of some of the key buildings becoming compromised and unsafe for workers and visitors, whilst having chatted to a few locals they informed us that the skilled workers were the last of the line and had nobody to replace them following retirement.