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Bromley definitely needed The Glades for the 90s and onwards. It was a stunning shopping centre, one of the best in the country in my opinion . I grew up lived in Bromley for 36 years then moved with my kids to Bournemouth in 2001 and, sadly over 23 years later, most parts of 1987 Bromley is exactly what many areas of Bournemouth look like today. Old, ugly, underdeveloped.

i was 25 when Bromley was wonderful town

Awww I was a mere 22 then . Thanks for the Memories . I was keeping my eyes peeled for a younger Me with my Mum and Nan :)

SI IMPORTANT OLD MEMORIES LIEK THIS

McDonalds will be around till the end of time and will still be advertising the Big Mac

this sad my culture has no sauce lmao

I miss old Bromley

I grew up at 60 Hayes Road. Luckily, much of that road is still as it was. Many of the big old Victorian houses were being pulled down. Then it all seemed to stop, as people came to their senses. The most impressive was a massive place around the corner on Westmoreland Road. Had a miniature steam railway that ran around the front garden. Would've made a perfect film set. Knocked on the door as a cub scout and ended up polishing shoes with a friend. All now pulled down, and on that single property space, flats for a 'million' people were built!

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Thank you for taking the time to post this. I grew up in Beckenham in 1980s & 1990s. Many Saturdays spent shopping with my Mum in Bromley on Saturdays around this time. Memories!

Good piece of film. I worked in Bromley before the Glades for Bromley Council 1979 onwards - and I remember all those roads that are now lost due to the building of the Glades shopping center. Lownds Avenue, Holwood Rd and Chapel Way. That also includes the car parks in Elmfield Road, Lownd Avenue (opposite the rear of M&S and Queens Road. Great memories

I was born in Bromley in 63. Many good memories, went to Southborough lane School inf/ jun, then Ravensbourne Sch for Girls and left there in 79. Worked at the GPO office Bromley South as a telephonist. Would move back if could afford it❤

Thanks for posting, a very good video.

have vague memories of Bromley at that time as later that year having family issues but certainly remember M&S car park, treat at Mc D being dragged around Alders C&A and army and navy and the weird stock of Woolworths and many times in the Westmoreland car park trying to find a space

A genius poet and a peerless rendition. Certainly made me feel nostalgic for the slagheaps on my youth playing on the pit tip at Mansfield Woodhus...

Lol,now it's just full of chavs

Strange bloke, strange poem. The mines are much better off gone. Not sure why anyone would wish for them to come back.

What’s the name of the song?

Should have never breed with them Arab, in doing so your group doom the whole continent.

Can you imagine telling the person who made this what TH-cam is.

Thank-you! So much lost. Nothing gained.

I lived in bromely from 1976 untill 96. Great vid, cosmos hse, chaterton Road, effies kebab, the chaterton Arms pub.

What a nostalgia trip! I used to hang in bromley as a kid in the 90s (watching video now as it's where i used to do all my christmas shopping). Had no idea you could drive through it!

Thanks for the video and great memories!! I left Ravensbourne School in 83. Also every week going to Dr Crippens wine bar in Bromley south for some great 80's soul/funk.

Wonderful video! I was born in Bromley Hospital and went to school at Ravensbourne School for boys. I used to get the 208 bus home from Masons Hill.

Childhood memories. Thank you

For all I know my mum could be in this, she lived in Bromley all her life then moved to Southampton where I was born

Thank you so much, many happy memories of a time that will not return.

Great video. Nice to see people not walking about like zombies constantly looking at they're phones

Sad! Bromley used to be such a lovely town. Absolute shit now alas.

I was 22 and had just left the Bromley borough. Everything looks so dated but to me it wasn’t that long ago 🤣😢

Thanks for the great memories of Bromley in better times. I actually think I saw a quick glimpse of my father’s Austin Ambassador parked up as I would borrow it and drive to work and abandon it around the side streets of Bromley in 1987 as I was a postman based At Bromley North back then.

I see the Churchill theatre hasn't changed a single bit 😂

The mid 80’s in Bromley, I love seeing my Titan buses on the road, miss them, they look cute in London, Bromley looked great and busy, I’m from the East End of London, born and lived in Walthamstow and moved to Leyton in May 1984 when I was 6 months old, been around London by tube back in the 80’s, funny I nevered reached Bromley, only Elephant and Castle where my late aunti live, died in car accident in London Bridge in Jan 5th 1988, miss her and missed being around that area, but I still go there, but I can her presence, she was my mum’s best friend and special to us and I miss her, been Tooting around the mid 80’s, but been to West End, North London, abit of North West London , Essex , South West London, South East London not down to you ends in Bromley, but I’ve been and it’s nice, I like Purley too, now I got my own flat in Custom House in East London opposite the Excel and the new Crossrail, I can’t wait to sit on them, nice, lovely video, it looks more 1970’s vision your video, lol 🤪😂😈 I like the mid 80’s, I miss my decade, 😢😢😢, music, tv programmers and transport in London, that time it was cheap, I miss those days, now it’s a sh*t with “WOKE NONSENSE”, as a black guy born in London, I’m not into that WOKE SH*T, lol 😂😈

Looking at that film Bromley did not change that much after I left in 1980 and this film was shot. I lived in a Cul de Sac of Westmorland Road when I was growing up, so remember just about every place on the film, and have memories associated with them. My younger brother was born in the hospital opposite Bristol Street Motors, and my older brother worked at Bristol Street Motors. I got chased out of the Westmorland car park once because we were racing Safeways trolleys down the ramps, and I brought marbles in the Habitat store. Got two of my bikes from the cycle shop at the bottom of the high street, and remember jumping a red light on the first pedestrian cross the day I was 16 on my moped. I went back there to work in the mid 90s at the department store on the Market Square, the place was changed then and I have not been back since.

Brings back memories for me - good work.

Though living on outskirts of Bromley since1960, l lived near the centre ( Hammelton Rd ) in a flat from ‘75. ln ‘78 our landlord died and we had to move out. The Council said if l find a full-time job. ( l was free lance at the time ), they would find us a house near to my work…..New Town’s of the time were offered. l found a job at Wokingham ( London Waiting ), and sure to Bromley Councils word, they found us a nice council house in Basingstoke within 8 weeks. We later wanted to try Wales, so we applied for a simple ‘council exchange’….Went to Cardiff to see a notice board of families who wanted to swap to other counties. Sortied it easily. We spent our next 10 early family years in South Wales. A brilliant move. We appreciated the country side. Was able to get a cheap mortgage at the time in the property boom. Our 2nd last house there we bought for £19k with streams, 1/3 acre, 5bedrooms. sold it for £65k in ‘92. We were very lucky l think. A happy memory of Bromley was sailing my model boat in the Library Gardens. I believe the boating pond it is still there?

Great times unfortunately gone right down hill . I remember as a kid I felt safe In Bromley now it’s coming like a 3rd world cesspit like most of south London . Good memories tho happy times

Happy days 👍

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I've still got a bone to pick with the Dripping Tap Store!

I lived in Chislehurst when I was 8 and mum and I always went to Bromley I liked it than now. I remember the man in the bat cloak in Bromley gardens where the theater is running around and the coffee beans you smell in a shop down by one on the train stations

Very nostalgic! I worked in Bromley in 1987 for Global Tours, in Elmfield Road by the South Station. ILG sold the business to Wallace Arnold in 1988 and I went to work elsewhere.

Think this was about the time I left Bromley, never to return. The Macdonalds was still relatively new, I think.

I've still got the bottle of pink ointment from when I got my ears pierced at Wallace Pring, by Painless Pete.

Lovely to see the Bromley I knew and loved ...... before all the vermin started to arrive.

Another world now good out days are gone very sad..

Hey if you have any footage of homesdale road around the same year can you upload it s

I went to Clark's college at the top of Masons Hill. It was demolished in 1988 so would have still been there when this was filmed but alas, the camera doesn't quite catch it.

Thanks, I left in 88 and lthen the ast time I visited, the centre was unrecognisable. It would be great if someone could use new tech to re-master this as the quality is very "period".