Coltman Drive
Many years ago, if you were walking up Great Central Road, from King Street, just over the brow of the hill you would see the large sign for Herbert Morris at the end of the road. Before reaching this, you would pass the Great Central Railway and Coltman’s boiler works on your left, and the Shepshed Lace Manufacturing Co. on the right. Although some of the Herbert Morris works is still standing, this is much further down Empress Road, accessed by continuing along Great Central Road to the point where it joins Empress Way, first passing a right turn into Windmill Road, along which there are lots of new houses. Part of the Herbert Morris works on Empress Road Turning into Windmill Road, off Great Central Way, the first turning on the left leads to more new houses on Purnell Walk and Webster Road. But it is the name of the short street which leads to these that is interesting: Coltman Drive. Presumably this is named after the man behind the Coltman boiler works, which as we saw, was adjac
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