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Browning Close, NOTTINGHAM, NG5 6HF

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!

An old former Coaching Inn now a Fayre and Square pub beside the Premier Inn Hotel at Daybrook. Reopened early 2011. Across the road are the Home Brewery Offices, until recently owned and used by Notts CC. Image]

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.

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

A Grade II listed building. It was built by the architect John Loughborough Pearson between 1892 and 1896 at a cost of £26,000 (£2,230,000 as of 2012). The spire rises to a height of 150ft.

The entrance into the Daybrook Almshouses site from Mansfield Road (the A60). This complex comprises twelve two-bedroom homes that were erected in 1899. Sir John Robinson, owner of the nearby Home Ales Brewery, built the almshouses in memory of his son John Sandford Robinson, an amateur jockey, who died in a horse-racing accident in April 1898, aged 30 years. William H. Higginbottom J.P. (1868-1929), a Nottingham-based architect, designed a number of other buildings and edifices in Arnold and in Nottingham.

A fine example of late Victorian gothic by J. L. Pearson, the architect of Truro Cathedral.