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Sherbrook Road, NOTTINGHAM, NG5 6AB

An instance of graffiti making a positive contribution.

It's clear that virtually none of these has seen any use for a long time.

Nottingham Borough Council built a huge number of council houses between the 1920s and the early 1950s. The bulk of them were built to a limited number of designs which can be found all over the city. The eight houses here represent one of the commoner designs: a terrace of four houses with a central arch giving access to the back gardens of the central houses. Houses grouped along a pedestrian footway (usually known locally as a twitchell) are also a characteristic feature of the design of the estates where most of this housing was built. Also visible are the original picket fences: usually supplemented, as here, with privet hedges.

Locally typical brick built terraced houses

There were three blocks of maisonettes containing 36 dwellings (69-139 Rosecroft Drive) located here until around 2008. The maisonettes are an unusual building type in the housing stock of Nottingham Borough Council. Existing examples are located on Abbey Bridge, Marchwood Close and Kibworth Court. I presume that the individual flats are single-aspect (i.e., back-to-back) given the size of the buildings, number of flats and doorways located on all sides of the building.

A scruffy view of the rear of one of the standard Nottingham cast-iron boundary markers. It is in a school playing field which makes it difficult to get to the front of it.

Side door alongside the main gateway of the Home Brewery office building.

A new ALDI supermarket under construction on the former Daybook Laundry site, off the main Nottingham-Mansfield road (the A60). This "neighbourhood store" on 1.25 acres is due to provide a sales area of 10,650sq ft. In addition, there will be car parking spaces for 78 cars. One of the planning conditions is that Aldi will construct a new access road to the food store which will also serve the remaining 2.3 acres of land that are to be marketed for a variety of other uses. The supermarket is expected to be functioning from November 2014. The Daybrook Laundry Company was founded here by Samuel Robinson ( c.1875) to take advantage of a natural spring. In the 1960s, as more people bought washing machines, the home laundry demands declined and in its latter years the laundry switched from domestic laundry to predominantly commercial work. In 2002 the factory was sold to the Sunlight Services Group and work at Mansfield Road ceased.

Some car dealerships are certainly not busy at present, and which this is one.