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(Redirected from Sir John Robinson’s Almshouses) Almshouses in Daybrook, Arnold, Nottinghamshire

Sir John Robinson's Almshouses
The entrance gate to the almshouses in 2008
LocationNottingham, Nottinghamshire, England
Coordinates52°59′58.4″N 1°8′16.7″W / 52.999556°N 1.137972°W / 52.999556; -1.137972
Built1899
Built forSir John Robinson
ArchitectWilliam Herbert Higginbottom
Listed Building – Grade II
Sir John Robinson's Almshouses is located in NottinghamshireSir John Robinson's AlmshousesLocation of Sir John Robinson's Almshouses in Nottinghamshire

The Sir John Robinson Almshouses (commonly the Daybrook Almshouses) are a collection of twelve two-bedroom cottages erected in 1899 on Mansfield Road, Daybrook, Arnold, Nottingham, England.

The almshouses are charitable low-rent housing provided and maintained by the Sir John Robinson Homes charity (England and Wales Registered Charity No. 217941) to enable fully retired elderly people over the age of 60 years (who are able to care for themselves) to live in Daybrook.

Sir John Robinson of the Home Brewery built the almshouses and Daybrook Laundry in memory of his son John Sandford Robinson, an amateur jockey, who died in a horse-racing accident on 21 April 1898, aged 30 years.

King George V visited the almshouses on 24 June 1914.

There is a further group of 12 two-bedroom houses that were built earlier in 1889, in Sherwood, as Sir John Robinson alms houses in honour of his son's 21st birthday.

References

  1. Nottinghamshire Guardian – Saturday 7 October 1899
  2. "Sir John Robinson's Almshouses" (PDF). housingcare.org. Elderly Accommodation Counsel. 20 September 2013. Retrieved 22 June 2014.
  3. "217941 – Sir John Robinson Homes". apps.charitycommission.gov.uk. Charity Commission for England and Wales.
  4. Nottinghamshire Archives (24 June 1914). "Visit of King George V, Daybrook Almshouses ?, Mansfield, Arnold, 1914". inspirepicturearchive.org.uk. Arnold: MG&E Limited. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
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