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LU Question 20:32 - Aug 4 with 4755 viewscolinallcars

I bet this has come up in pub quizzes but a question in the Times general knowledge crossword today - one of six London Underground stations named after pubs (5,4)
I haven't looked it up by I'm guessing Burnt Oak.
What the other five are I don't know.

Sorry edit ( 5,3) !


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LU Question on 20:35 - Aug 4 with 3927 viewsE17hoop

Maida Vale

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:London_transport/Did_you_know#:~:text=...th

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LU Question on 20:38 - Aug 4 with 3888 viewsGaryHaddock

Royal Oak
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LU Question on 20:47 - Aug 4 with 3829 viewsterryb

Elm Park?

Probably not, as the only pub I can find with this name is in Brixton!
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LU Question on 20:48 - Aug 4 with 3820 views81A

Angel and Elephant & Castle old coaching inns ?
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LU Question on 21:02 - Aug 4 with 3737 viewsizlingtonhoop

Archway. Apparently. I read recently

Edit. Although quick Google search, and I can only find that it's named after the bridge (as one would have supposed).

Article I read fairly recently claimed it was named after the adjacent Tavern, having started life as Highgate.
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LU Question on 21:08 - Aug 4 with 3675 viewsQPR_Hibs

LU Question?

I thought this was going to be a question about the legroom/water pressure/PA system in the Upper Loft.

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LU Question on 21:12 - Aug 4 with 3644 viewsJuzzie

Five and then three letters so i can only think of Royal Oak or Burnt Oak too but will go with Royal Oak as i used to go to school near there and my best mate at the time lived around the corner and I’m sure it was named after a local pub.


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LU Question on 21:12 - Aug 4 with 3643 viewscolinallcars

LU Question on 20:47 - Aug 4 by terryb

Elm Park?

Probably not, as the only pub I can find with this name is in Brixton!
[Post edited 4 Aug 21:02]


Who put the bricks in Brixton ? Old music hall song.
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LU Question on 21:13 - Aug 4 with 3632 viewseastside_r

LU Question on 20:38 - Aug 4 by GaryHaddock

Royal Oak


Yeah this.
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LU Question on 21:51 - Aug 4 with 3486 viewsSonofpugwash

Thought that was going to be "Mr.Lu" (Lu Liang-Huan) who was runner up in The Btitsish Open in 1971.
Remeber it well.

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LU Question on 00:18 - Aug 5 with 3283 viewsNewBee

Not the answer to the crossword clue (wrong number of letters and the Tube is named after the district), but it brought this to mind:
"According to the Dictionary of London Place Names (2001), Swiss Cottage is named after an inn called The Swiss Tavern that was built in 1804 in the style of a Swiss chalet on the site of a former tollgate keeper's cottage, and later renamed Swiss Inn and in the early 20th century Swiss Cottage."
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LU Question on 01:15 - Aug 5 with 3216 viewsnumptydumpty

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LU Question on 06:30 - Aug 5 with 3062 viewsGaryHaddock

Which UK rail station has the same name as a former QPR footballer?
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LU Question on 06:45 - Aug 5 with 3014 viewsSK_hoops

LU Question on 06:30 - Aug 5 by GaryHaddock

Which UK rail station has the same name as a former QPR footballer?
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Adel-stone.
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LU Question on 06:49 - Aug 5 with 2994 viewsdsw2509

Swiss Cottage, Elephant & Castle, Angel, Burnt Oak, and two others.
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LU Question on 06:49 - Aug 5 with 2994 viewsJuzzie

LU Question on 06:30 - Aug 5 by GaryHaddock

Which UK rail station has the same name as a former QPR footballer?
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Turnham ‘Green’
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LU Question on 07:05 - Aug 5 with 2959 viewsGus_iom

LU Question on 06:30 - Aug 5 by GaryHaddock

Which UK rail station has the same name as a former QPR footballer?
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Angel
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LU Question on 07:15 - Aug 5 with 2926 views81A

LU Question on 06:30 - Aug 5 by GaryHaddock

Which UK rail station has the same name as a former QPR footballer?
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Gordon Hill
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LU Question on 07:20 - Aug 5 with 2913 viewsMetallica_Hoop

LU Question on 20:35 - Aug 4 by E17hoop

Maida Vale

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:London_transport/Did_you_know#:~:text=...th


That's an interesting fact about Bank station and the Hawksmoor church.

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LU Question on 08:10 - Aug 5 with 2786 views222gers

There are of course two types of crustacean to be found in London.
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LU Question on 08:37 - Aug 5 with 2713 viewsrbee

So much history surrounds the London Underground.

My favourite fact is to do with the original tiling on the station platforms. Most stations were built at the end of the 19th, beginning of the 20th century. When completed each station had a unique tile design on the platforms also using different colour schemes. This was done because at the time there were so many people that could not read so people identified stations by tile design rather than name.
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LU Question on 08:40 - Aug 5 with 2704 views222gers

LU Question on 08:37 - Aug 5 by rbee

So much history surrounds the London Underground.

My favourite fact is to do with the original tiling on the station platforms. Most stations were built at the end of the 19th, beginning of the 20th century. When completed each station had a unique tile design on the platforms also using different colour schemes. This was done because at the time there were so many people that could not read so people identified stations by tile design rather than name.


So too with pubs and their signs depicting bulls, cows, deers etc.
Lucky they kept that going….
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LU Question on 09:51 - Aug 5 with 2594 viewsNewBee

LU Question on 08:40 - Aug 5 by 222gers

So too with pubs and their signs depicting bulls, cows, deers etc.
Lucky they kept that going….


https://thehistorypress.co.uk/article/a-history-of-british-pub-names/
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LU Question on 10:52 - Aug 5 with 2513 viewsdanehoop

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LU Question on 11:11 - Aug 5 with 2456 viewsGroveR

LU Question on 08:37 - Aug 5 by rbee

So much history surrounds the London Underground.

My favourite fact is to do with the original tiling on the station platforms. Most stations were built at the end of the 19th, beginning of the 20th century. When completed each station had a unique tile design on the platforms also using different colour schemes. This was done because at the time there were so many people that could not read so people identified stations by tile design rather than name.


This very scheme persists in one station only on the network and that is Fulham Broadway. Every fortnight or so, hordes of illiterate mouth-breathers descend upon this station in a migratory wave sociologists cannot understand. Some have evolved enough to roar "CHELTH" sporadically and for no apparent reason.

For a time, even pictures of club captains, leaders and legends in full kit confused the horde, so these were augmented with a man-made odour of corruption and failure to indicate it was time to disembark.
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