Description: Looking towards the steps on Derby Road, showing John Leaver's house, No. 3, centre (lace machine inventor). John Leavers (Levers), originally a frame smith and setter up, of Sutton in Ashfield, moved to Nottingham where he lived in a house on St Helen's Street. Whilst there he produced a prototype of the machine still making fine laces. See NTGM001846 and NTGM001847 for more information.