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Byron Street, NOTTINGHAM, NG5 6BT

Locally typical brick built terraced houses

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.

It is not clear whether this fine example of 1930s industrial architecture will survive the demolition of the rest of the premises. It was turned down for listing as being incomplete and having insufficient technical merit. Daybrook was a long established large commercial laundry founded in 1875 by the brother of the founder of Home Brewery which was sited on the opposite side of Mansfield Road. The reason for the two very different businesses being established together was not the family connection - both sites had access to sources of excellent quality water!

The former Home Ales Brewery on the main Mansfield-Nottingham road (the A60) is seen here from the former Daybrook Laundry site. This Grade II-listed building - dating from 1936 - with its unusual putti (cherubic) frieze by the sculptor Charles Doman is now officially known as "Sir John Robinson House". It boasts over 30,000 sq.ft (2,800 m2) of office space, much of which is currently occupied by council staff. The Daybrook Laundry site is currently being re-developed by the ALDI as a new supermarket.

Opposite the former Home Brewery, so perhaps there was a barrel maker in this vicinity.

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

There has been no brewing here for years, but the building is listed. It is now occupied by Notts County Council.

Daybrook is a suburban district to the south west of Arnold centre. The A60, Mansfield Road, passes through and is seen here at the junction with Byron Street.

Customers are silhouetted against the window of this micropub with the former Home Ales brewery outside. The Abdication - located in Coronation Buildings - is an example of the modern trend for micropubs; it has been open since August 2014 and is one of at least three in Nottingham. Micropubs are small premises - typically former shops - and concentrate on good quality real ales usually sourced from local microbreweries. See Image for more information about Coronation Buildings.