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randyrippley

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Heysham Towers, I have never known of any Towers in Heysham, except the two Nuclear power stations Towers, which are a good 30-minute walk away!

You have to remember the Lancastrian penchant for naming stately homes as "tower". Sometimes the site started as a pele tower which was later replaced. Think of Dallam Tower (near you), or going back several hundred years the Pendle witches (now lost) Malkin Tower (which by then was a decayed hovel)
 

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Lothian Buses' service (N/X)26 on the Seton Sands branch serve a stop named 'Cockenzie Power Station' - said power station was demolished almost 3 years ago.
 

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The Salutation in Henbury, Bristol was renamed Henbury Arms in February 2017, but the bus stops still call it by its former name. Even before then, when it was a Toby Carvery, the pub didn't advertise its name.
 

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Arriva's Sapphire 38 service in Derby announces stops as "The Barracks" and "Combustion", neither of which have existed for many years.

The Barracks were home to the Sherwood Foresters Regiment, but were demolished in 1981, with the site now occupied by Foresters Leisure Park.

Combustion was bought by Rolls Royce in 1989.
 

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The stop in north Bristol at the former Frenchay Hospital (now demolished and a housing development) is still called Frenchay Hospital.
 

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Ditto Nags Head in Holloway.

Ditto the Red Rover in Barnes, served by the 33 (Richmond-Hammersmith) and the 337 (Richmond-Clapham Junction) even though the pub of that name was closed and turned into apartments many years ago.

Likewise, the Bridge Inn by the railway bridge over Chesterfield Road, Sheffield, which I think is now offices.
 

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A little tongue-in-cheek, but my father witnessed the burning down of the Crystal Palace from his home in Bromley, and that was 1936!!
 

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The official name of this stop is Cheddar Tweentown but the name on the timetable displayed there is 'The Toilets'. There is a commercial building nearby called 'The Rest Room' which presumably used to be said public conveniences.

https://bustimes.org/stops/3600SOB21180
 

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In Weston-super-Mare the stop at the junction of High St and Waterloo St is still referred to by a few as Lance's Corner after the shop that stood there until Hitler took a dislike to it in 1943. After Fine Fare followed by Shopper's Paradise occupied the replacement store Argos have been there for which you are more likely to hear requested. Having left Weston in 1990 my brain still thinks buses go to Leos which was replaced by Asda.

On a recent visit to a local history society I was reminded of two rather vague ones that have been demolished in the Milton area of Weston. "The Shelter" and "The Telephone Box". Not sure what they do now as a shelter has been constructed where the telephone box once stood. These stood on Upper Bristol Road at opposite ends of the double crescent of Milton Brow. In their wisdom Bristol Omnibus had made this a Fare Stage Using the roads on the opposite side of Upper Bristol Road was no help as that was opposite ends of The Crescent.
 

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A fairly recent one in Weston-super-Mare is Worle (Homebase) on Bristol Road, the shop now being named Bunnings I believe.
 

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A little tongue-in-cheek, but my father witnessed the burning down of the Crystal Palace from his home in Bromley, and that was 1936!!

The part of Upper Norwood is still called Crystal Palace with the railway station of that name serving that area.
The Premier League football team which I support also carries that name....
 

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In Tunbridge Wells a bus stop by the disused bus garage carries the name "Arriva Bus depot/K&S Hospital". The bus garage closed earlier this year. Kent &Sussex Hospital closed several years ago with a new hospital built just outside the town at Pembury. The hospital was demolished after closure and the site has been redeveloped.
 

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The part of Upper Norwood is still called Crystal Palace with the railway station of that name serving that area.
The Premier League football team which I support also carries that name....

Not to mention the transmitting station which wasn't built until 1956.
 

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I'm sure there are hundreds of examples. In my home town of Ferryhill I can instantly think of two on the same road named Cate's and Marley's, both named after butchers that haven't been there for over 40 years.
 

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Yeading White Hart , named after the White Hart which shut a couple of years ago
 

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Even the naming of roads becomes obsolescent; the Cat & Fiddle inn (on the A537) is no more. There is still a bus stop there, on High Peak route 58, with that name.
 
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Would’ve been the U10 and I think it went 2016.

Another pub one local to me is the road from Farrington Gurney to Paulton. Both flag and the 768 refer to the Miners Arms though it’s been Spice Dunes curry house since 2009.

That said, the stop outside the former bus depot site in Bath, and now a Morrisons, still referred to it at Safeway Store until just a few years ago
Similarly the stop outside Morrison’s in Chesterfield still says Safeway’s on the shelter, although I don’t know it’s official name has chY
 

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Heysham Towers, I have never known of any Towers in Heysham, except the two Nuclear power stations Towers, which are a good 30-minute walk away!
Heysham Tower was a house nearby, where the scottish-names streets are close to the school. Note, it was singular, Tower, hence it's really Heysham Tower's bus stop, not Heysham Towers!
 

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Both were named after the artillery training site. It later moved to Bare, somewhere around where the golf club is now
Apologies in advance, but Bare Golf Club sounds as apochryphal as Loose Women's Institute!
 
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Midland bluebird 17 route Falkirk -limerigg has hannah's stores as a recognised stop ( hail n ride ) but I'll be bugged if there ever was a store as it's a field in middle of nowhere and on a bend nowhere near any access rd for farm .
 

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Chesterfield still has the Staveley Works Stop even though it was demolished years ago.The Spital Pub stop is now a Coop Store.
 

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The 351 (and formerly the 951) have a timing point called Torside Visitor Centre printed in timetables, but the stop flag states Torside. The visitor centre shut in 1996. The Grouse near Glossop has long since shut (2012 when it closed) but the stop there is still known as The Grouse.

There's a stop in Trowbridge which has "Trowbridge, Town Bridge (formerly Bowers)" printed on the stops timetable. Yet on the flag it simply states Town Bridge. Down in Westbury, the main town centre stop is called Westbury, High Street, Barclays but Barclays shut in May 2018.
 

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The Viaduct Hotel at Limpney Stoke closed (around 2005?), but is still remembered in the bus stop name.
 
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