PELHAM Road: Possibly named after a suburb of Birmingham, UK.
Pemberton Road: Possibly named after a suburb of Greater Manchester.
Radcliffe Road: Another reference to Greater Manchester.
Roland Chapman Drive: Was a well-known advocate in Durban, a judge in the Natal Native Court and a member of the South Coast Junction Health Board before Montclair and Woodlands became a suburb of Durban.
Samson Place: No trace found.
Scantz Place: No credible trace found.
Sharp Place: Possibly named after three 1850 settlers – Andrew, George and Arthur – although none of them had any particular historical footprint.
Stedway Place: No trace found.
Strathcone Place: No trace found.
Streatham Crescent: Suburb of south London.
Strydom Place: Possibly named after Maria ‘Mother’ Strydom, widow of one of the Voortrekkers. She owned a boarding house on the present site of the Durban Club on the Esplanade and was well-known for her Boer remedies as a nurse. She was highly praised by Henry Francis Fynn in the 1850s.
Sturrock Road: Named after Frederick Claude Sturrock who as Minister of Railways and Harbours opened the T Jetty in 1944.
Topping Place: No trace found.
Upton Place: In all likelihood named after Robert Sellers Upton, an 1850 British emigrant. An architect by profession, he designed St Paul’s Church in Durban.
Verity Avenue: No trace found.
Wingate Road: Major-General Orde Charles Wingate led the 77th Indian Brigade known as the ‘Chindits’. He revolutionised jungle warfare against the Japanese in WW2. He died on 24 March 1944, aged 41.
Wood Road: The Wood family owned extensive land in the area from whom the Town Council purchased property to lay out Woodlands suburb.
Read also:
Origin of road names in Woodlands and Montclair – part 1
Origin of road names in Woodlands and Montclair – part 2
Origin of road names in Woodlands and Montclair – part 3
