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Placehouse Lane, COULSDON, CR5 1YA

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

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.

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.

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

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.

The bus just visible on the left of the road is standing at its terminus - known for many years as 'Old Coulsdon, Tudor Rose' but now truncated to just 'Old Coulsdon'. The eponymous pub is off-picture to the left, with, further away, the large Coulsdon FE College. To the right is the Tudor Parade shopping centre, while behind the photographer is a busy medical centre. All good reasons for the generous provision of bus services to this point.

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.

London Transport Routemaster RM1998 stands at the Placehouse Lane (Tudor Rose) terminus of the 190 bus route from Thornton Heath. The car park on the right is for patrons of the Tudor Rose. Also visible through the windows of the bus shelter is John Brown's estate agents. The mock tudor house on the left is on Court Avenue.

Old Coulsdon