TURNER STREET: Between 1876 and 1885, Sidney Turner was a resident on the Bluff. Restless in spirit, he sought adventure from Port St Johns to the Barberton goldfields. Among his exploits was the salvaging of ‘treasure’ from the Grosvenor, a British East India vessel which was wrecked off the Pondoland coast on 4 August 1782. Turner died aged 55 on 15 September 1901 at Port St Johns.
WADE ROAD: Charles Wade was a structural engineer from Birmingham who set up the engineering firm initially called Wade and Dorman in 1903, later known as Dorman, Long.
WAHLBERG ROAD: Professor AJA Wahlberg was a prominent Swedish naturalist who was invited by the Boer government of Natal in 1839 to make scientific collections in the district.
WARBERSON AVENUE: Origin could not be traced.
WATERHOUSE ROAD: Professor Waterhouse was a member of the Natal University Development Foundation set up in 1925 to raise money from the private sector. Within five years it raised £32,700.
WELFREER ROAD: Name derived from a combination of Welfare and Freer roads which it replaced in 1942. The
Freers were an old Bluff family.
WENTWORTH ROAD: Another name which has British origins.
WHITEHOUSE ROAD: Named after a former general manager of South African Railways.
WITHERNSEA AVENUE: Named after a seaside resort on the Yorkshire coast, not far from Hull.
WYHAM AVENUE: Named after a village in Lincolnshire.
WOOLLEY AVENUE: Possibly named after a British officer which George Christopher Cato names Wolley in his account of the coronation of Cetshwayo as Zulu king in 1873.
WYLIE ROAD: Captain James Wylie commanded the Durban Light Infantry during the Anglo Boer war. Later became a Brigadier-General and served in World War I. He was a member of the Natal Provincial Council from 1911 to 1919.
Where traceable, names which were alphabetically omitted will feature in the January issues of the SUN.
