My relative used to run importers back in the day, my mum used to take us “Kennedys” for a sausage roll and for a real treat it was upstairs in McDonald’s with the fans spinning on the ceiling….wow that was a magical time it was around 1982 I guess 😊
I lived at Grove Park in those days, every Saturday would be a 94 bus ride into Bromley to buy clothes from the various stores and then records from WHSmiths. 😊
Great memories of Bromley just before Kentish Way was built and everything was transformed. I was born in Bromley and lived in Sandford Road from 1952 - 1993. I still miss the place, even though it has changed a lot. Happy days.
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!
Brilliant little snippet of your life, my relative used to run importers coffers shop. I was born in Bromley and my dad drove the B1 bus from Kidbrooke to Bromley….happy days man
Used to be Medhurst. They had a girl with the very unfortunate surname of 'Carriage', and somebody thought it was funny to keep calling 'Would Miss Carriage please contact staff-room' What a complete plonker, but that was then, the days of stuff like 'Till Death Us Do Part' (Alf Garnet) on tv!
Wallace Pring chemists - our family business is at 8.50. So pleased to see it there because, even though it was there for a very long time, it rarely appears in pictures. My Dad owned the business and was the pharmacist there from the 1970's until he sold the business in 1999. He worked 6 days a week for years and years and was almost certainly behind the counter when this was filmed.
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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 mum worked at the coffee shop importers in 1980 used to meet my mum after school and get some free chocolates i actually went upstairs were the chocolate was. Thanks for uploading
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
@@geoff050624 I don't recall a record shop called Harlequin, my go to record shop was that large shop at top of High Street by Church Road, can't recall name but where Primark is now. I think my time was a decade before you, from around 1962 to 1966ish. Nice to re-visit this video again ;-)
Halfords and Russel and Bromley closed. Gaumont Cinema replaced by a now gone Debenhamscdepartmeny Store. Harrison Gibson burned down. My dad went to Raglan Road. I started work at Wellers 19 Masond Hill. All been 5:00 demographically destroyed now. They were only at New Cross when l escaped in 176.
Bromley Cottage Hospital is also long gone to housing. I was often there in my teens. Farnborough is called Princess Royal and my mother died there in 2004. Compared to mu youth it is like living in another Continent.
what a joy! Used to go to BRomley a lot years ago.So workmen WITHOUT hard hats,hi-viz actually working.Road not closed whilst roadworks being done.No mobile phones to be seen or people walking about with cups of coffee or food.Parking easy with few yellow lines.Lets go back.
This was the year I came to Bromley to work at the old Bromley Hospital. The developers promised a memorial to remember the old hospital - it never happened. I still miss Bromley Hospital - the NHS has changed almost beyond recognition.
I remember going in the old Pizza Hut with Mum and Dad in about 1985-86 when you could park outside, we never had much money but Dad had blagged a job that allowed him the use of a new top of the range 735i BMW in black, I was only 4 or 5 but remember looking at it parked right outside and thinking wow we are rich (our regular motor was an orange mk 2 Transit) funny what we remember, the Pizza Hut is a cafe now looking at Google street
Aaa the good old days in Bromley, parking in bus lanes, on the kerb on double yellows no hi-vis workmen, no proper traffic management on the roadworks, cones all knocked over... watched this 3 times already tying to see me in my old Cortina lol
I have many memories of Bromley as used to have to go once a week to antenatal and to see mr Tatford. When I was pregnant used to love nothing better than going in Kennedy’s to get my 2 pounds of beef sausages as I had a real craving fir them then and Kennedy’s was the only place to get them. Used to love the shops there and had my first Burger King there. Loved the library and the park attached at the back. I also met and had an autograph from Diana Dors from when she signed a postcard for me. Lovely shopping there and so many memories of the station we used to go to Hastings.
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.
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! 😘.
Aww I have so many memories of shopping in Bromley on a Saturday afternoon. Meeting up with my mates McDonalds on Market Square corner (23.23mins in). Had my first ever burger and fries in 1982 🍔🍟 If you get bored watching don't miss the end (30mins in) where they drive up and down the whole high street! Bromley was the best shopping town in South London in the 80s..next to Croydon
Wow, thanks for this! I remember the car park, with the Dolcis on the corner, part of it was round the back of the Marks and Sparks. I went to Brownies in the Welsey Hall.
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!
I used to shop in that Safeway where the pub is now opposite the station. The top end is so much easier to walk up now. Used to be narrow footpaths with buses rushing by.
What memories. Going down the hill to Habitat and then cursing on the walk back up the hill in the sunshine. Not being able to afford the shoes at Russell % Bromley (still can't) but getting personal service at the Shoebox. I still call in to the Burger grill for a meal when I am back in the UK. Strangely seeing the mural I got an immediate hit of the smell of Bromley back then . Most impressive were the mens butts in those tight trousers. All the men looked good in them in this film. And wow how many cyclsits did you film.
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.
You`d remember the old Gaumont cinema then, showing Norman Wisdom in"Square Peg" I`m now living in Oz and miss the old stomping ground. Went to Bromley Primary School, All the old buildings now demolished.
@@robfinch3277 I think my Dad once said there used to be a Gaumont cinema in Lewisham as well? Slight change of topic, though Lewisham is only 5 miles away from Bromley.
@@jeremyrogers1247 Yes, My father was born in the Old Kent Road and in his day he said the ' suburbs' ended at Southend Pond just before the watermill, and the trams from the OK rd turned round there. To get to Grove Park or Bromley was a walk out into the country (or horse and cart) if you had the fare.
@@robfinch3277 That's interesting, and must have been in the early 20th century. The Metropolitan borough of Lewisham extended as far south as Downham which was built in the mid 1920s on farmland and was called the garden estate, and Southend was quite rural as well. I think the boundary between London and Kent was on the bottom of Bromley Hill until 1965 when Bromley came a London Borough in its own right.
@@jeremyrogers1247 Yes he was in his very early teens (I`m in my 70s) and I remember him telling me he saw the Downham Estate being built and apparently it was the largest estate in the UK at that time. I know it was a bloody long walk from Grove Park to the bottom of Downham Way and back again trying to get parts for my push bike. ( 2 cycle shops either end owned by the same guy and some parts I wanted in each shop)
Pet shop boys ‘Suburbia’ poster! @ 19:46 so this must have been filmed in September of 1986, just before the dawn of the mega shopping centre age. It also looks like quite a bit of the preparation work for the pedestrianisation of the high street is underway.
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 remember Kennedy's Sausages well. The best of the best. I'll never taste anything like them. It was a shame to see their bigger shop on the corner of Market Square turned into a Radio Rentals though. I lived from 1961 to 1978 in 35A Market Square.
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! 🤔🤔🤔
@@juandef4115 that's really sad. Does Woolworths exist anywhere in England anymore or have they shut shop for good? It was such a wonderful little place. Argos was another. Hope Argos is still around.
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!
Well that throws something I have always believed right out of the window. You can clearly see The Bristol and West Building Society here in 1986 and the road was 2-Way. I was within a whisker of getting killed there by a Bus after leaving the Society and not looking right as it was " one-way" or SO I THOUGHT and I believed ( in 1997) that they had just changed it but it had always been like this so it was just that there could not have been any traffic one-way every time I visited that Building Society before that so it WAS my fault. 2 different people said they did not know how that missed me. It was like 3 inches...
Thanks, Marius. I still shudder at what might have been. Unbelievably last Sunday I was driving on THe M25 near Bromley when my engine ceased 5 seconds after I pulled over, casually, from the middle lane to the hard shoulder of the motorway, because the Oil Light came on !!!!!!!!!!!! It was not a " panicky" move but a half-hearted one and I had my dogs in the car, as well !!! There have been other close shaves in my 66 years but the scariest has got to be the first day I joined Lewisham Council in The 1990s and I went back INTO the Office @ 5pm as the Staff stampeded out right on the stroke of 5. I never made that mistake again...:)
Just seen your comment again. Whenever I feel a little down about being 66 years old or about Covud restrictions I think back to that incident which is the closest of the 4 or 5 shaves I have had, my friend. Gappy New Year :)
Castlegrad yep it’s sad how knife crime is just everyday now but we just gotta get u to it and it’s nice to see about how it looked like then. Primark was a place called orders apparently my mum worked there shut in 2000 I think.
Memories rush back, both good and bad. I came to Bromley in 1985 so that was my first impression of the High Street. Above all I miss Allders but I don't miss Westmoreland Place which even then was looking shabby, or the lack of decent supermarkets. The old Sainsbury's was pathetic and Safeways wasn't much better
@@jameswilkinson2242 Actually he grew up at 4 Plaistow Grove. It is still there. He also lived in Beckenham in early 70s, Haddon Hall. Which is now gone.
That was a joy to watch I was born in bromley in 1962 and our town has changed so much . Thank you for that little bit of old bromley
You could smell the aroma from the coffee importers right along the high street. Lovely
Yes, I remember that too-it was very nice. Thank you anyway!!
My relative used to run importers back in the day, my mum used to take us “Kennedys” for a sausage roll and for a real treat it was upstairs in McDonald’s with the fans spinning on the ceiling….wow that was a magical time it was around 1982 I guess 😊
I lived at Grove Park in those days, every Saturday would be a 94 bus ride into Bromley to buy clothes from the various stores and then records from WHSmiths. 😊
@alanmitchell2859 used to work in gateways in grovepark when I was 16. And lived with my mate in grove Park....Happy days man
@paul-ie6wi I lived in Somertrees Avenue, what road did you live in.
Great memories of Bromley just before Kentish Way was built and everything was transformed. I was born in Bromley and lived in Sandford Road from 1952 - 1993. I still miss the place, even though it has changed a lot. Happy days.
I Was There...Many Memories and miss~~~`1984-1986 as abroad student~korean!
I lived in Bromley , I feel the atmosphere of such a peaceful and lovely place, I do miss it a lot !!
who ever filmed this ... my greatest thanks
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!
Brilliant little snippet of your life, my relative used to run importers coffers shop. I was born in Bromley and my dad drove the B1 bus from Kidbrooke to Bromley….happy days man
I worked in Harlequin Records in Lewisham in the early seventies, then Bonaparte Records in Bromley mid seventies .
Who gives a shit
Days before cell phones were glorious.
A MILLION PERCENT!
Yep no cell phones..it was great..
Wow that's really taken me back down memory lane. Started working in Allders in 1987... Fantastic memories.
Paul Brockwell I went to school with Ross King
I worked at allders of eltham in 1978
Used to be Medhurst. They had a girl with the very unfortunate surname of 'Carriage', and somebody thought it was funny to keep calling 'Would Miss Carriage please contact staff-room'
What a complete plonker, but that was then, the days of stuff like 'Till Death Us Do Part' (Alf Garnet) on tv!
@@garyconstant4234I remember shaking Larry Grayson hand at allders in eltham in the 1970s 😂 my little claim to fame
Thank you for not ruining another great classic video with a cheap music overdub.
Wallace Pring chemists - our family business is at 8.50. So pleased to see it there because, even though it was there for a very long time, it rarely appears in pictures. My Dad owned the business and was the pharmacist there from the 1970's until he sold the business in 1999. He worked 6 days a week for years and years and was almost certainly behind the counter when this was filmed.
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@Ty Lane thanks so much for your reply. I found the site thru google and Im waiting for the hacking stuff atm.
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We all know what's changed so much since then, and it isn't for the better 😞
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!
Wow I also started working for ILG then - star burger for lunch and first girlfriends dates in pizza hut 😂
I'd totally forgotten Nordsee I did like that. I've been in Bromley since 1978
My mum worked at the coffee shop importers in 1980 used to meet my mum after school and get some free chocolates i actually went upstairs were the chocolate was. Thanks for uploading
I remember the lovely aroma that you could smell from one end of High Street to the other!
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
Do you remember Harlequin Record shop, where I worked?? (See my story above)
@@geoff050624 I don't recall a record shop called Harlequin, my go to record shop was that large shop at top of High Street by Church Road, can't recall name but where Primark is now. I think my time was a decade before you, from around 1962 to 1966ish. Nice to re-visit this video again ;-)
Halfords and Russel and Bromley closed. Gaumont Cinema replaced by a now gone Debenhamscdepartmeny Store. Harrison Gibson burned down. My dad went to Raglan Road. I started work at Wellers 19 Masond Hill. All been 5:00 demographically destroyed now. They were only at New Cross when l escaped in 176.
Bromley Cottage Hospital is also long gone to housing. I was often there in my teens. Farnborough is called Princess Royal and my mother died there in 2004. Compared to mu youth it is like living in another Continent.
what a joy! Used to go to BRomley a lot years ago.So workmen WITHOUT hard hats,hi-viz actually working.Road not closed whilst roadworks being done.No mobile phones to be seen or people walking about with cups of coffee or food.Parking easy with few yellow lines.Lets go back.
This was the year I came to Bromley to work at the old Bromley Hospital. The developers promised a memorial to remember the old hospital - it never happened. I still miss Bromley Hospital - the NHS has changed almost beyond recognition.
My brother was a DJ on Bromley Hospital Radio during the early 1990's!
Better times. I’d happily go back to the 80s.
I'll go with you. Used to live at 78 Kings Avenue.
Me too
I remember going in the old Pizza Hut with Mum and Dad in about 1985-86 when you could park outside, we never had much money but Dad had blagged a job that allowed him the use of a new top of the range 735i BMW in black, I was only 4 or 5 but remember looking at it parked right outside and thinking wow we are rich (our regular motor was an orange mk 2 Transit) funny what we remember, the Pizza Hut is a cafe now looking at Google street
I used to go to that branch around that time! Used to play in Bromley squash club as a kid
I used to conduct a romance in there back then 😂
Thanks for posting.
Aaa the good old days in Bromley, parking in bus lanes, on the kerb on double yellows no hi-vis workmen, no proper traffic management on the roadworks, cones all knocked over... watched this 3 times already tying to see me in my old Cortina lol
I have many memories of Bromley as used to have to go once a week to antenatal and to see mr Tatford. When I was pregnant used to love nothing better than going in Kennedy’s to get my 2 pounds of beef sausages as I had a real craving fir them then and Kennedy’s was the only place to get them. Used to love the shops there and had my first Burger King there. Loved the library and the park attached at the back. I also met and had an autograph from Diana Dors from when she signed a postcard for me. Lovely shopping there and so many memories of the station we used to go to Hastings.
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.
I saw both “Poltergeist II” and “Hannah and Her Sisters” at the Odeon Bromley!!
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! 😘.
Aww I have so many memories of shopping in Bromley on a Saturday afternoon. Meeting up with my mates McDonalds on Market Square corner (23.23mins in). Had my first ever burger and fries in 1982 🍔🍟
If you get bored watching don't miss the end (30mins in) where they drive up and down the whole high street!
Bromley was the best shopping town in South London in the 80s..next to Croydon
Wow, thanks for this! I remember the car park, with the Dolcis on the corner, part of it was round the back of the Marks and Sparks. I went to Brownies in the Welsey Hall.
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!
I used to shop in that Safeway where the pub is now opposite the station.
The top end is so much easier to walk up now. Used to be narrow footpaths with buses rushing by.
What memories. Going down the hill to Habitat and then cursing on the walk back up the hill in the sunshine. Not being able to afford the shoes at Russell % Bromley (still can't) but getting personal service at the Shoebox. I still call in to the Burger grill for a meal when I am back in the UK. Strangely seeing the mural I got an immediate hit of the smell of Bromley back then . Most impressive were the mens butts in those tight trousers. All the men looked good in them in this film. And wow how many cyclsits did you film.
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.
Drove these streets in 1986, in fact drove them 20 years previous, Bromley "Girl" born and bred
You`d remember the old Gaumont cinema then, showing Norman Wisdom in"Square Peg" I`m now living in Oz and miss the old stomping ground. Went to Bromley Primary School, All the old buildings now demolished.
@@robfinch3277 I think my Dad once said there used to be a Gaumont cinema in Lewisham as well? Slight change of topic, though Lewisham is only 5 miles away from Bromley.
@@jeremyrogers1247 Yes, My father was born in the Old Kent Road and in his day he said the ' suburbs' ended at Southend Pond just before the watermill, and the trams from the OK rd turned round there. To get to Grove Park or Bromley was a walk out into the country (or horse and cart) if you had the fare.
@@robfinch3277 That's interesting, and must have been in the early 20th century. The Metropolitan borough of Lewisham extended as far south as Downham which was built in the mid 1920s on farmland and was called the garden estate, and Southend was quite rural as well. I think the boundary between London and Kent was on the bottom of Bromley Hill until 1965 when Bromley came a London Borough in its own right.
@@jeremyrogers1247 Yes he was in his very early teens (I`m in my 70s) and I remember him telling me he saw the Downham Estate being built and apparently it was the largest estate in the UK at that time. I know it was a bloody long walk from Grove Park to the bottom of Downham Way and back again trying to get parts for my push bike. ( 2 cycle shops either end owned by the same guy and some parts I wanted in each shop)
Pet shop boys ‘Suburbia’ poster! @ 19:46 so this must have been filmed in September of 1986, just before the dawn of the mega shopping centre age. It also looks like quite a bit of the preparation work for the pedestrianisation of the high street is underway.
Well spotted, yes I was a Pet Shop Boys fan myself back then. Bought their Actually album on cassette the year after.
Brings back so many memories - left Ravensbourne for Girls Nightingale Lane that year
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
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.
Well spotted….so it is 😊
I remember Kennedy's Sausages well. The best of the best. I'll never taste anything like them. It was a shame to see their bigger shop on the corner of Market Square turned into a Radio Rentals though. I lived from 1961 to 1978 in 35A Market Square.
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Yeah me - Geoff, used to work in Harlequin Record shop. I have a bigger post on here somewhere.
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! 🤔🤔🤔
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.
And foreigners !
Wow! C&A is where Woolworths use to be... now that's a scrappy 99p shop
Woolworths gone too?
@@chandrikakamath2707 Gone since 2008
@Hitogokochi finally. Someone who understands what I mean
@@juandef4115 that's really sad. Does Woolworths exist anywhere in England anymore or have they shut shop for good? It was such a wonderful little place. Argos was another. Hope Argos is still around.
Wilkos used to be a nice place too..is it around anymore?
I grew up in Bromley went to St Mary's playgroup in Fashoda Road,then went to Raglan Infants.Moved from Bromley in 1981.
When Bromley was at its best..
Worked in Allders Honeycomb Restaurant as a chef, great times..
I expect that it's changed a bit since H.G Wells' day.
Wow, I have not been in Bromley since 2007....
It has changed, not for the worse, not for the better. Just changed....
For the worse
It was still a nice place in 2001
And she appeared from obscurity in 862 are beloved bromleag and went from strength to strength bless her she never let us down
Assalamualaikum
Ma sha Allah Apnar vlogs ta amar khob balo laglo great upload
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
Went to what used to be called Ravensbourne School for Boys in the 70's.
You mean ravesnwood?
the is also a school called the ravensbourne school but that is mixed
was boys only back in the 70s and 80s when i was there
Ncoso still is ravensbourne
I go ravenswood but there’s also Ravensbourne
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!
Still miss Allders.
Alders store on Bromley high street doesn't exist anymore?
@@chandrikakamath2707 Not for many years. It is a Primark now.
I miss Army & Navy. Bejams. Blockbuster video. And short back & sides. And £1 peep shows in Soho. ...
Seeing Bromley without the glades is so strange (98 baby)
I just anout remember Habitat..& Bromley hospital in Cromeell rd..
Omg 💖
Well that throws something I have always believed right out of the window.
You can clearly see The Bristol and West Building Society here in 1986 and the road was 2-Way.
I was within a whisker of getting killed there by a Bus after leaving the Society and not looking right as it was " one-way" or SO I THOUGHT and I believed ( in 1997) that they had just changed it but it had always been like this so it was just that there could not have been any traffic one-way every time I visited that Building Society before that so it WAS my fault.
2 different people said they did not know how that missed me. It was like 3 inches...
Thanks, Marius. I still shudder at what might have been. Unbelievably last Sunday I was driving on THe M25 near Bromley when my engine ceased 5 seconds after I pulled over, casually, from the middle lane to the hard shoulder of the motorway, because the Oil Light came on !!!!!!!!!!!! It was not a " panicky" move but a half-hearted one and I had my dogs in the car, as well !!! There have been other close shaves in my 66 years but the scariest has got to be the first day I joined Lewisham Council in The 1990s and I went back INTO the Office @ 5pm as the Staff stampeded out right on the stroke of 5. I never made that mistake again...:)
Just seen your comment again.
Whenever I feel a little down about being 66 years old or about Covud restrictions I think back to that incident which is the closest of the 4 or 5 shaves I have had, my friend.
Gappy New Year :)
Oh wow look how it’s all changed and that’s my home town woah
Castlegrad yep and now look at the ppl in it that carry knifes and that… I wish it was still like this
Castlegrad wow but but about that guy that went crazy in the glades with a machete!
Castlegrad yep it’s sad how knife crime is just everyday now but we just gotta get u to it and it’s nice to see about how it looked like then. Primark was a place called orders apparently my mum worked there shut in 2000 I think.
Brilliant video
And Habitat near Bromley south.
Bought a game called "Howzat" not long after it opened. It was a dice based cricket game and I still have it somewhere.
Back when Bromley actually had English people living in it
i just randomly typed 'bromtey'
ust have been a Sunday or Bank Holiday
What happened to the Kushbag Indian restaurant in the top part of Bromley ?
Amazing
Memories rush back, both good and bad. I came to Bromley in 1985 so that was my first impression of the High Street. Above all I miss Allders but I don't miss Westmoreland Place which even then was looking shabby, or the lack of decent supermarkets. The old Sainsbury's was pathetic and Safeways wasn't much better
Parts resemble Croydon now.
shit then
time 21.43
1986 Nissan laurel c32 D REG
I was born in 1986
Pre The Glades
GREAT DAYS!
Good ole days, Bromley Punx and boozing in the corner club. Loved it!oh, and Kennedy butchers.
Where is David Bowie’s family house?
David Bowie's House was near Bickley end of Bromley. He lived there at the start of him becoming famous. Its been knocked down now.
@@jameswilkinson2242 Actually he grew up at 4 Plaistow Grove. It is still there. He also lived in Beckenham in early 70s, Haddon Hall. Which is now gone.
@@jkinghome that's right Beckenham not Bickley 👍family home before he was famous was Brixton
1980s go pro at the end
Where can you go out? Best places?
Victoria Ivankova Smith bingo and social club 22.57 looks inviting
The Three Compasses
Benito's hat makes awesome burritos
1986 yili burger King de garsonluk yaptım turkiye
Beckigham
I appreciate the work put into this film but there is no diversity.
Typical!!! SHUT-UP
What a shit show
Wonderfully nostalgic but heartbreaking at the same time . God I miss the 80s
I was born in 1986
My son was also born in 1986, just had his 35th birthday back in July.
@@luvuforeverjames just had mine in June