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 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 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 moved from the Meadows, when the first signs of redevelopment began to appear. We left behind a receiving shop, but it meant upheaval for the workforce of 70 people.
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 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 moved from the Meadows, when the first signs of redevelopment began to appear. We left behind a receiving shop, but it meant upheaval for the workforce of 70 people.
