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High Street, PURLEY, CR8 2XT

Looking northwards along Brighton Road, Arriva Daf-Wright bus DW 35 is seen taking its layover before returning to West Croydon via the very hilly 412 route via Sanderstead and Selsdon. Said by the drivers to be more powerful than the Dennis Tridents, this type, dating from 2004, is not surprisingly the first choice on the 412.

The two buses seen in the centre are waiting at the start of their routes. The single decker is on Route 359 which will take it to the Addington interchange via Sanderstead and a diversion to serve Monk's Hill. The double-decker behind is on Route 412, to West Croydon, also via Sanderstead.

Carved stone post by the A235, in parish of Purley (Croydon District), grounds of Purley Memorial Hospital, in bushes close to boundary wall, on West side of road. Surrey limestone pillar, erected by the Croydon & Reigate turnpike trust in the 18th century. Inscription reads:- : XII / (Miles / from / West / Minster) / Bridge : : XIII / Miles / (from / The / Standard / in) / Cornhill / LONDON / 1743 : : XII / (Miles / from / West) / Minster / Bridge : : 39½ Brighton. : Greater London HER. Identifier: MLO101522 https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=2816320&resourceID=272 Milestone Society National ID: SY_LBT13

The driver of the DMS bus on Route 59 will be glad he has nearly reached his terminus. Heavy southbound traffic has been a feature here for years.

Built 1904 as Purley Congregational Church, it is a grade II listed building.

Here opposite Purley Hospital is seen a Leyland National on Route 414, whose normal western terminus was Horsham, but this bus is on a short working to Reigate.

This small hospital has resisted many attempts at closure. This picture shows the busy Out Patients department.

A major National Grid substation between Brighton Road and Whytecliffe Road.

When Purley was part of the Coulsdon and Purley Urban District, and in Surrey, this road was named quite logically as London Road. But when the area was absorbed by the London Borough of Croydon in 1967, bureaucracy demanded the whole stretch would become known as Brighton Road. The United Reformed Church is seen here on the right, while a bus on Route 412 is at the end of its journey from Croydon via Selsdon.

Presumably the original building, which the name suggests would have gone up just after the First World War (when suburban expansion around Purley was intensive).