National Dry Cleaners

General information

The history of National Dry Cleaners starts in 1897 with Henry Redgate who started cleaning gentlemen’s stiff collars in his front room. The menfolk who worked in the dust and the grime throughout the week wanted to look their best come Sunday.

Henry’s enterprise flourished and expanded to all manner of garments, the name was The National Laundry and Super Dry Cleaners and a factory was founded near the old Toll Bridge on Wilford Road, where the trolley buses that ran to St Ann’s had their terminus.
Henry Junior joined his father and together they built up a clientèle across the Midlands.

In 1957 we were compelled to move from The Meadows, when the first signs of redevelopment began to appear. We left behind a receiving shop, but it meant upheaval for the the workforce of 70 people.
We are now located on Winchester Street in Sherwood were we continue to process all cleaning on site to high standard.
The business has changed with society, especially following the advent of the washing machine, which impacted on demand, persuading us to concentrate primarily on dry cleaning.

Today our network of agent stretch from Nottingham to Southwell, Long Eaton to Ravenshead - a far dry from Henry Redgate’s front room in The Meadows