A street on one of Nottinghamshire's largest new-build estates is to be named after the father of one of English football's leading strikers. Hundreds of homes are being built at Chase Farm, which sits near the £49m Colliery Way bypass, and the latest street names have now been unveiled.
One street on the £140m estate looks set to be named Lincoln Drive, after coal miner Lincoln Cole. Mr Cole was also the father to Manchester United legend Andy Cole, who helped win eight major trophies for the team and is now the third-highest goal-scorer in the Premier League with 187.
Lincoln Cole was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and travelled to the UK at a time after the Second World War when members of the Commonwealth were being employed in British industries. He joined pit workers at Gedling Colliery in 1965 and spoke of his time as being "rough and scary" but with "great spirit."
