Tristán White wrote:

I'm curious now. There's a street up the road from me in Plaisow called
"Routemaster Close".

It looks quite an old road and the houses are certainly prewar by the looks
of things... so it is a name-change then?

Depends which war you mean, young man. Certainly not pre world war 2 if
this former resident is to be believed, talking about trolleybuses -
among the first routes given to Routemasters were trolleybus
replacements... THis would have been around 1960.

"They ran from either West Ham [WH] or Poplar [PR] depots, both now
demolished and housing estates built on the sites, although the West
Ham Depot site is remembered as one of the street names there is named
Routemaster Close."