Bromley High Street 1987

[@lisabrown3715]

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 :)

[@CloseQuarterCombatLFC]

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.

[@rselvanathan]

I had just recently moved to Bromley in 1986....never left... amazing trip down memory lane.

[@goldcoins9311]

1987, a pint of beer was 23p, a Ford Escort van was £600 and a 3 bedroom semi detached house was around £30K.

[@dannysullivan6921]

Beer was more than 23p a pint mate in Bromley Kent...

[@Isleofskye]

You were lucky with the beer though:) 2 pints at The Temple Bar, Walworth Road near THe Elephant and Castle went up to £1 and I remember that significant price landmark and I moved from there in 1983...

[@_B.M_]

Petrol was about 30p a litre too

[@TheNobbynoonar]

We lived in a shoebox on the side of the road. Happy days!!

[@Isleofskye]

@@TheNobbynoonar You lucky xxxx. We had to live in the middle of the South Circular Road and pray to Allah ...

[@thebaron9059]

Wow! Some great memories there of the year I left school. Amazing how much is still actually the same.It was, without a doubt, a far better time, when the world was far more sane! Thanks for the video.

[@aaronhewitt3385]

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!

[@surfblue63]

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.

[@jeremyrogers1247]

Thanks for the video, you really appreciate it in years to come when looking back nostalgically. Yes it was possible to drive cars through the high street in the late 1980s, then with the development of the Glades in 1992 (I think) the high street was pedestrianised. Interesting to see the cars of the time back then and the type of clothing typically worn by the public.

[@lisabrown3715]

1991 I only remember this as my eldest child was born in March 1991 and I believe The Glades opened in that October.

[@jeremyrogers1247]

@@lisabrown3715 Yes I checked the opening date online, it opened on 22nd October 1991.

[@sonicboomish]

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!

[@TheSapphireLeo]

Yeah, remember the fountains and lifts in the water, with greenery of the "food" courts, with the swivel chairs and children's play area, next to it?

[@GdpIsNationalIncomePerYear]

Thanks for posting, a very good video.

[@suzanneatkinson3207]

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❤

[@zachgrace7675]

Honestly I wouldn't move back here. It's unfortunate to say but it's becoming a cess pit.

[@mikekaraoke]

@@zachgrace7675 What parts, I went there last week and alright to me!

[@mikekaraoke]

@suzanneatkinson3207-Where do you live now, still in Kent? I'm also in Kent right between Dartford/Bexley! I know you posted this a yea ago or so but still lol

[@timjones990]

Great video, thanks for sharing. Lots of memories. The bike shop at 02:27 was Skate City, spent many an hour in there.

[@tiocfaidh28]

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.

[@dimejil-suleimon1813]

No way dude same here

[@robertsissons3922]

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.

[@TheOriginalFlyGuy]

Childhood memories. Thank you

[@lerpack455]

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?

[@BusesinLondon345]

Despite how much has changed, it still looks very much recognisable

[@brslamdoornetwork2972]

How little has changed in my town over the years, despite the more residential establishments coming about, the police station, shopping outlets etc.

[@JohnnieE1961]

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

[@mytube2959]

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

[@archiewoosung5062]

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

[@surfblue63]

That was the first McDonalds I ever went in, around 1978 or 79.

[@geraldbroomfield]

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

[@batman51]

Interesting to see what has gone, and what is still there!

[@harryvendryes]

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!

[@johnmoore9862]

Brings back memories for me - good work.

[@dannysullivan6921]

Takes me back them days remember it well..😀😀😀😀

[@southlondonlad9144]

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

[@tiocfaidh28]

Totally agree. How times have changed.

[@southlondonlad9144]

@@tiocfaidh28 Don't get me wrong, phones are amazing but people today seem so preoccupied in they're own world

[@tiocfaidh28]

@@southlondonlad9144 Yep I agree. We must use technology and not it using us and getting to our heads. The video is ace... I went to school at Ravensbourne and was born in Bromley Hospital...

[@southlondonlad9144]

@@tiocfaidh28 I grew up not far from Bromley but I've been going there all my life, I like the town centre and glades

[@leakoe3797]

They were days..

[@marwood1969]

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.

[@tiocfaidh28]

I used to walk past Clark's college every day on my journey to school... Ravensbourne School for boys.

[@dannysullivan6921]

I remember driving my car around in1987 not many car around then...

[@pamelamckenzie2685]

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

[@TheOriginalFlyGuy]

I remember that coffee bean smell like it was yesterday

[@fxdfrxsty7719]

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

[@fxdfrxsty7719]

Pls

[@esconis5304]

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

[@vspencer9764]

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.

[@pablobratcat]

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

[@roomullan3050]

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

[@yehhunxx]

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

[@caodavies]

But it had only been up for 10 years at the time of the video. It's aged since then and not always for the better.

[@yehhunxx]

@@caodavies must've looked quite modern back then? Now its just this huge concrete block that u see for miles

[@Infinityandbeyonde]

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.

[@gren509]

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".

[@brookeharris5046]

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

[@fester9090]

Thats how it was last time I was in Bromley

[@jeanjacques9980]

So many shops gone, Wilson’s next to M&S, Medhursts (latterly Alders), Army and Navy, Habitat, even the DHSS have closed up shop. Bromley still had a feel of a market town in ‘87 though changing, very different now, presume that Debenhams in the Glades has closed, never liked the shop. Sign of the times Bromley has gone down hill noticeably. Catford and Lewisham, now very “urban” and “inner city,” the influence is spreading to Bromley. I much prefer my location in Guildford these days.

[@pablobratcat]

Agreed

[@mcharrisment4765]

Yes agreed Guildford is far better than Bromley as it has been taken over by residents from Se6 and Lewisham ruining a once nice town

[@jeanjacques9980]

@@mcharrisment4765 How true and very sad, a sign of the times. I heard that black youths rampaged through the shopping centre a while ago, police had to deal with situation one Saturday afternoon. There was also a youth murder on Beckenham Hill Road not so long ago. All bars and pubs in Beckenham seem to have several hefty bouncers on their doors, my parents would turn in their graves if they could see Beckenham now.

[@goodwood-rc4nx]

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

[@Larri-b]

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

[@lisaaldington7907]

I used to wait for my bus home after school in the high St near the Churchill theatre. The latter is going to be demolished and replaced by flats. The Bromley of today isn't a patch on what it was.

[@gregtaylor6146]

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

[@syddog44]

Can you imagine telling the person who made this what KZbin is.

[@caodavies]

It was state of the art at the time. RIP Beta (and VHS). Oh, and I can imagine it since I made it. Best wishes Chris Davies

[@fredflintstone8998]

... and did they have mobiles then I wonder?

[@kyrokyro2343]

I am from Brixton London u.k I used to visit bromley in the 70's in search of ' pumpum '... I have lived in USA for 40years.

[@gregtaylor6146]

Is that right Idiot??? I used to visit Brixton in search of 'normal, well-adjusted human beings ....... always disappointed though, as you've proved!

[@leonard2005ify]

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 😂😈

[@larry2569]

I'm from Bromley myself. You are spot on! God bless!

[@leonard2005ify]

@@larry2569 Thank You and God Bless you too, 😃😃

[@AlanACTON-t6q]

i was 25 when Bromley was wonderful town

[@stevelamb5646]

I lived in Bromley till 1978 it was a lovely town , I recently saw a video on here present day not as nice now sad to say , like most towns ruined by cheap shops and betting shops. Shame.

[@markdurrant4174]

Happy days 👍

[@oddjobtriumph1635]

I miss old Bromley

[@jackiebayliss]

Agreed.

[@dannysullivan6921]

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

[@PaddyWV]

I remember a C&A up from the railway station. That's about it.

[@billfrater1948]

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

[@gavinprosser]

SI IMPORTANT OLD MEMORIES LIEK THIS

[@nigelcarren]

Great video aside, DAMN that guy can sure lick that guitar!!!! 🏆😊

[@johncourtneidge]

Thank-you! So much lost. Nothing gained.

[@caodavies]

You're welcome!

[@dodgydruid]

Lol my old school...

[@Optics21]

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

[@Benaam007-z5s]

I know almost every area you look at 99% shops gone but McDonald's still there 😂

[@ismailkaragandere6298]

1983 yil bromley register officede evlendim kent ingiltrenin bahcesi turkiye