 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.