Anyone know what is happening to the Sunlight Laundry site on (131-139) St Leonards Road? It closed last year but I haven't heard anything about what is happening to this. I guess this would be ripe for residential development. As far as I am aware no planning applications have been posted on the RBWM website.
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Laundry Site Development?
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Posts: 3 (08/07/07 00:35:21) |
Update: I found out this morning that the owners of this site are about to submit a planning application to convert this land to residential use. A block of 6 flats and 2 townhouses on St Leonards Road plus another 17 townhouses to the rear planned for this site! This seems excessive given the size of this plot. That being said, most modern developments do seem to find a way to make the most for each cubic metre.
 mmm..I wonder if there's any plans for "affordable" housing for key workers in this development. |
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Posts: 1892 (08/07/07 04:43:47) |
Rule one of planning Apps: Ask for more than you can possibly get, then look good by toning down your plans.
Thanks for the info. Will keep an eye open. |
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thamesweb |
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Posts: 1892 (09/12/07 08:44:44) |
We have been sent photographs and the summary of a press report at the time featuring a fire at the laundry.
Fire At Laundry - 1926
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thamesweb |
Planning Application lodged with RBWM for laundry site | ||
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Posts: 1112 (05/12/08 13:27:23) |
An outline application 'in respect of layout, scale and access for 23 dwellings and demolition of existing buildings' has been received by RBWM in
respect of 131 - 139 St Leonards Road Windsor, the old laundry site.
Laundry Planning Application Page There are four sets of docs listed on the page above. It is the plans PDF that shows roughly what they are planning and where the houses will be built on the plot. Access will be from St Leonards Road. |
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acreboy |
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Posts: 1 (05/19/08 01:25:28) |
I feel sure the laundry was called SunRAY, not Sunlight. We lived nearby until the mid-1950s.
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Posts: 153 (05/19/08 01:44:39) |
It was definitely 'Sunlight'....
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Posts: 1157 (05/19/08 08:03:28) |
1950 Kelly lists the Sun Ray Laundry in Victor Road. Well remembered... In the 1930s they had a shop listed in St Leonards Road too.
I agree Sunlight sounds laundry like - Sunlight Soap, Port Sunlight, etc! |
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Posts: 1 (06/28/08 07:58:30) |
When I wrote the article about my father Joe Bourne working at the Royal Albert Laundry, I was unaware of Mrs S.Barrows until Roger Harding wrote his
article concerning the fire at the laundry. Recently I saw an advert in the Midweek Slough Observer (dated Wednesday 18th June).
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anne hill |
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Posts: 5 (07/28/08 06:48:29) |
Hi cousin Chris
I was told by my uncle Jim before he died that his mother and aunt Em both worked at the laundry and I found my grandmother (on Dad's side) lodging with other laundry workers in 1901 census. Incidentally Great Aunt Em got paid extra because she was a "finisher". I seem to remember Dad talking about the Sunlight Laundry when he lived in Victor Road as a boy. Anne |
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ChrisB |
Royal Albert Laundry & Mrs S Barrow | ||
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Posts: 2 (07/29/08 06:51:46) |
Made a visit to Slough Library on Saturday and found the advert for Mrs S Barrow - Royal Albert Laundry. The advert dated Noember 1907 stated that it had been
established for over 30 years and patronised by King Edward VII (when Prince of Wales), Prince & Princess Louis of Battenburg, H.S.H. Princess Adolphus of
Teck, Prince and Princess Alexander of Took, Princess Radisville, His Highness the Maharajah of Cooch Behar, Count Blucher and Windsor Castle. If indeed Mrs S
Barrow started the laundry some time during the 1870's until the fire in 1926, over fifty years of trading. I need to find out what happened after 1926 to
see if the laundry continued as the Royal Albert Laundry.
The Sun Ray Laundry did operate along side the RAL until both were taken over by Sunlight laundry. |
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