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Coulsdon Road, COULSDON, CR5 1EB

Road junction near the centre of Old Coulsdon, Surrey.

This well-known landmark has served for many years as a bus terminus, currently for Route 60 from Streatham.

For many years, London Transport as well as its predecessors and its new constituents, has liked to identify its termini by the use of the name of a public house. The inn here has a long tradition in this respect, (the actual pub. is out of view to the right). The bus stand is actually in Placehouse Lane: it is a very well used terminus, as not only is there the public house, (whose more conscientious drinkers surely use the bus), but there is a very large college just adjoining and an important medical centre, with eight doctors working, (visible behind the bus, but rebuilt as a two-story building since this photograph). In 1983 the route that terminated here was the 190, as shown, which ran to Thornton Heath.

The Tudor Rose is a mock Elizabethan building with these wonderful 'barley sugar' chimney pots.

1930s housing in Court Avenue. The road is marked on the 1935 1:2,500 map, with some development shown.

In 1998, this was the terminus of Route 50, which used Olympian double deckers, as shown here. The bus is standing in Place House Lane, and the Tudor Rose pub. is out of shot to the right.

A Leyland Olympian on Route 190 at the Tudor Rose, Old Coulsdon, its northern terminus. This has now become a very busy place as a large college adjoins, but in this photograph, only a few pensioners seem to be waiting.

Rear view of John Brown estates agency office

The use of the 'Tudor Rose' at Old Coulsdon as a bus terminus dates from the early days of motor buses in London. For many years it was the southern terminus of Route 190 from Thornton Heath High Street, but about 1970 Route 50 took over. Here is Leyland Olympian L52 as seen in 1998, but more recently Route 60 serves this terminus instead.

As usual, both sides of Court Avenue are occupied by parked cars, whose drivers are probably attending the large medical centre at the end of the road on the right. The single-storey building on the left was formerly a Coal Office, but is now occupied by an estate agent. In the distance is seen the Tudor Parade, (of shops).