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When Bromley was at its best.. Worked in Allders Honeycomb Restaurant as a chef, great times..

Is 10:40 duppas park?

Dad was from Bromley. DoB 1924. Lived in Glenbow rd, was bombed out in blitz then moved to Old Bromley rd. Dad joined RAF during WW2 on Lancs, he left UK in 1950 for Australia and NZ. He fondly remebered flying kites as a lad on a hill near the school. I visited in 2012 and visited his haunts and houses. McDonalds for lunch near Old Bromley Rd. Dad visited in 1985 and said it had changed so much then. He loved NZ too. Peace on earth.

What a shit show

My mum worked at the Berni Inn in the 70's.my dad worked for George Jenkins skip hire fdwn the dide of Bromley south station.He did most of the skips when the glades was being built.This brings back lots of memories for me happy ones

I grew up in Bromley went to St Mary's playgroup in Fashoda Road,then went to Raglan Infants.Moved from Bromley in 1981.

I just anout remember Habitat..& Bromley hospital in Cromeell rd..

I grew up in Bromley and went to school at Bromley Tech (now the name has changed) in the early 60's. David Bowie (David Jones) was a year ahead of me. I used to be called 'Jonah' at school. There was not one tinted pupil in the whole school! I have spent the last 25 years living on an island in the Andaman Sea - but don't miss Bromley. I used to go to Bromley library - and later, Henekeys and the Railway Signal pubs. It wasn't a bad place to grow up in - but the best decision I ever made - bar none - was to leave England! 🤔🤔🤔

Wonderfully nostalgic but heartbreaking at the same time . God I miss the 80s

1935 I was at woodbrook school aged 6 , loved it !

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Parts resemble Croydon now.

Wow!! This is like stepping back to my youth!! I was born in Greenwich and lived in Bexley…I would go to Bromley for the shops…and feel it was a posh🤭 treat!!? Habitat down the end of the high street was a favorite…the Glades Shopping Centre etc, not sure when that came along! The main library in the theater was amazing….the cinema where I saw Scandal, Lethal Weapon etc…Allders Store…!? Blimey…we had it so good back then and only appreciate it now in many ways!? 🥴🤔🤗. Love these old vids!! Well done on posting! 😘.

Thank you for not ruining another great classic video with a cheap music overdub.

I was born in Beckenham in 1949 but so much of this is familiar. I hoped to catch a glimpse of my Grandfather who worked bricklaying in the furnaces of the power station. He would often lose his eyebrows and moustache when he under estimated how hot the furnace still was. The fumes gave him emphysema that plagued him til he died I the early 50s. I remember in the late 60s helping to organise the first outdoor concert in the Recreation Ground with David Bowie. What a great day! I was selling candy floss and as it was breezy I was covered in the stuff by the end of the day. Does anybody remember Siseleys homemade sweet shop next door to Sainsbury’s in the high street? Paradise. Wish it were still there. What a lovely town it was, and self sufficient til it was dragged down by the GLC and then Bromley in the 60s and 70s. Such great memories - and am I wrong but were summers longer and hotter then? Certainly seemed it. Thanks for posting this. Any more??

What an amazing film when Beckenham was a truly nice place to live. I lived in Bec in the early eighties. Loved it but wouldn’t live there now, not for all the tea in China. Almost every lady wore a hat and the refuse men worked holly hard

@30:46..kids today would want to know where you plugged it in.

A'hhhh a time of only 2 Genders and a lot more self respect......just like now, minus the self respect

Halcyon Days ...... before the World's vermin descended upon the once Great Britain.

We all know what's changed so much since then, and it isn't for the better 😞

Back when Bromley actually had English people living in it

Good ole days, Bromley Punx and boozing in the corner club. Loved it!oh, and Kennedy butchers.

The 1980's was the pinnacle of High Street shopping. These days many UK towns are full of crappy pound stores and lots and LOTS of coffee shops.

I saw both “Poltergeist II” and “Hannah and Her Sisters” at the Odeon Bromley!!

What happened to the Kushbag Indian restaurant in the top part of Bromley ?

Thank you for this of course-very interesting it is too as well. Although I live near Dartford, back in those days I used to go with my Mum and Dad to Bromley at times to look at the different stores and that that there were there then. We often used to park round the back and walk into the town at the time. I remember the footbridge where Kentish Way is now near Bromley South station. Of course although the High Street was dual carriageway in the lower part, by the northern end at the top of the town it was really narrow until the Market Square area as well. I guess that is why the Council decided to sort of by pass the area as it is now then too. Sadly my parents are not here now; and I have not been to the area for a long time as I am disabled alas too. But well done though too!

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Seeing Bromley without the glades is so strange (98 baby)

This is my Nan she passed in 1988

Brilliant video

I used to work in Harlequin Record Shop with Jillian Boyd, Lesly Smith (mngrs) Alan (forget surname) and another guy who's name I can't think of. Martin worked with us on Saturday'. People mostly knew me for 2 things; 1: I was very short (5'2") and looked about 14, and I had/drove an ex-police J4 van with white back doors and about 12 aerials + orange flashing light on its roof! Billy Idol who lived in Bromley was a frequent visitor - me and my best mate (then & now) Vince used to take the piss and call him 'custard head', guess you could say he had the last laugh and still is, has even had a Las Vegas residency! I went to work in the record shop opposite (sort-of) in the Market Square called 'Bonaparte' for a short while, but later went back to Harlequin, I worked there until 1980 and LOVED it. I'd love to know where the people are now. The last I knew of Les the manageress; she was living in Spain with the guitarist from Toto! Don't know whether they were married?, but Les married Bob Guylanders who was a delivery driver for Harlequin, in around 1977-8-9? I believe Bob sadly passed away not long ago following illness. That aside though, they were the best days of my life!

Where is David Bowie’s family house?

C&A was later Woolworths. Then came 99p Stores afterwards destroyed by Pound land. The original features of C&A still applied to the building

How beautiful Beckenham looked back then. The world we have lost forever.

I appreciate the work put into this film but there is no diversity.

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You could smell the aroma from the coffee importers right along the high street. Lovely

Pure nostalgia. I started work for ILG in Bromley in the Autumn of 1986. I used to buy my groceries at the Safeway store opposite Bromley South Station before getting my train home. Remember Starburger and the Nordsee Restaurant too, as well as Allders. Thanks for posting this!

My dear Beckenham.. for a few short decades you shone so brightly in your proud charter. Nestled in a far corner of our beloved Kent you showed what a near perfect conurbation could be. Snatched by the grasping hands of London you were sadistically and systematically destroyed by the traitors who have slowly but utterly overtaken our institutions.

Thanks for posting.

I expect that it's changed a bit since H.G Wells' day.

I was in junior school, Baston. We were excited to a day off school. I remember the wind woke me up in the middle of the night, the noise was scarey. We lost our apples trees. I lived on Hayes Lane.

Pre The Glades

At 34:37 you can see a street sign with green paintbrush stroke that Bromley Borough use as a logo. Still used by the council today.

Went to Bromley Primary School in the fifties. Remember shopping with Mum down the High St and lingering outside the shop where they had the coffee bean roaster in the window and taking in the smell of fresh roasted beans. Then back to the Lyons corner house on Market Square for a cake. What was the name of the big store near there where the counter assistants put the cash for a purchase in a wooden cup, screwed into an overhead holder and with a sharp pull on a vertical cord sent the cup and cash flying on an overhead wire to a cashier in a cage who then sent the change and receipt whizzing back half a minute later. Fascinated by all the cups from each counter flying back and forth.

This vision of Bromley is not too different to the Bromley of my youth. Born in Bromley Cottage Hospital in the late 1940's, schooled as an infant in Raglan Road and St Mary's Church School, Fairfield Road, then onto Quernmore Secondary School. I used the High Street as a stomping ground in my teen years, in fact started my first job after leaving school in Halfords, which was close to the Gaumont Cinema. Wage there was a staggering £3/16/4 pence a week! Anyway, has been nice to watch and remember 'those good old day's' of the Bromley I remember

time 21.43 1986 Nissan laurel c32 D REG

Days before cell phones were glorious.

Amazing

What was the name of the restaurant just past the Burger Grill...owned by the Mayer's back then? Was on the left past NatWest and the Burger Grill, then another shop on the left and then the restaurant...be darned if I can remember. I used to work at Army and Navy and later at BHS. I remember now Augustines Restaurant!