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After reading Berenice's most interesting post yesterday regarding Lord Roberts Road , associated information boards and dedicated greenspace to the celebrated Commander-in-Chief, I realized that there were at least two roads very near to where I live that were named in commemoration of actions from the Boer War.

LADYSMITH ROAD



Ladysmith Road is to be found in Cradley, Halesowen, West Midlands (it would have been in Worcestershire at the time of the conflict). The road is mainly to terraced houses from the turn of the twentieth century with one still retaining the old chainmakers workshop at the bottom of it's garden, now a heritage site. Therefore, I think I to safe to assume that the road was founded during or shortly after the Anglo Boer War.

BELMONT ROAD



Belmont Road is in the area of Stourbridge known as Wolles cote, and would have been in the county of Worcestershire prior to the reorganization of boundaries in the 1970s.

I am afraid that neither address boasts any information boards to inform the passer by of the origins of the names of either place. With a somewhat heavy heart, I doubt whether many of the residents of these roads realise the historical significance either!

Perhaps other forummers also have localities named in association with the Anglo Boer War?

There's a group of them in the Preston area which I keep meaning to go and photograph, and if it doesn't have to be only battles, a couple of Redvers Buller Roads, one in Chesterfield, the other in Aldershot.

Maybe Belmont Road was so named as a tribute to Dion and The Belmonts?

You may be right with Belmont having the rock 'n ' roll connection!lol!
Redvers Bullet Road! There is no mistaking the source for that naming!!

Spion Kop is a small residential and former industrial area in Nottinghamshire, England, stretching for a few hundred yards on both sides of the main A60 road surrounded by open farmland. It is in the civil parish of Warsop.


Courtesy of Wikipedia.

As well as Redvers Road in Exeter there is a magnificent statue of Redvers Buller in Exeter, easily found on Google earth
The statue lists the areas of his service and rounds this off with ‘He saved Natal’
Clive

Hi Clive,
Thanks for that. I will visit when next in Exeter.
Cheers Steve