The site is c.0.68ha in area. It is bounded to the north‐west by the B&M bargains store, to the north‐east by Station Road, to the south‐east by Middle Street, and to the south‐west by Styring Street/Beeston bus and tram interchange. A substation was located within the area adjacent to Station Road, which was to be retained. The watching brief was carried out during ground works associated with construction and provision of services. Excavation was undertaken by a suitable mechanical excavator fitted with a toothless ditching bucket under archaeological supervision. All excavated spoil was visually scanned to recover small finds. Where archaeological features and/or deposits were identified they were investigated by hand to allow their date, nature and degree of survival to be ascribed. Archaeology was identified in both the service trench and the northern corner of site, where a boiler bed and associated structures were identified at cellar‐level. In the service trench were the remains of two small wells and three walls. With the exception of one wall in the service trench it is likely that all of this archaeology represented remains of Foster and Pearson Ltd horticultural engineering works and dated from the late 19th century to the mid‐20th century, when Foster and Pearson Ltd was demolished and the site was turned into a car park. There was no detectable trace of any medieval remains present on site. The archaeological watching brief at Beeston successfully identified and recorded a number of archaeological remains on the site associated with Foster and Pearson Ltd horticultural engineering works. This business was present on the site from at least 1885 until 1961 when the land was acquired and redeveloped by the district council. This business tells an important part of the local story of how Beeston developed from a small medieval village into an urban centre of industry between the late 18th century and the mid‐20th century. It is also interesting as a microcosm of a story that was happening all over Britain in this era, as the countryside industrialised and urbanised.