Bromley 158
Waitrose Bromley 158
The 58th Waitrose branch to open and only the second in Kent, Bromley was a welcome addition to the local community. Opened on the 5th October 1976 with 135 Partners, the branch boasted 15,000 square foot of selling space, built on disused waste land.
Despite not opening until the 5th, The Gazette noted that Partners had done so much work to get the branch ready that they were already turning customers away 4 days before. A newly recruited cashier, Mrs Lee, told The Gazette “Now that I have seen a Waitrose Supermarket, I would never shop any where else”.
The images to the side appeared in The Gazette, 9th October 1976.
Address:
129 Burnt Ash Lane Bromley Kent BR1 5AJ
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I used to live in Lee, near Bromley and from around 1973-76 we used to shop at Caters in Eltham, which was poor, to say the least and at Keymarkets in Lee, which was worse. When Waitrose opened in Sundridge Park, on the way to Bromley, we were delighted. We shopped there every week from then on, until we moved to Sussex in 1983, where I shopped in Crowborough, Lewes and Uckfield. Now I live in Poole and shop at Waitrose here. We still talk affectionally about Waitrose, Sundridge Park – my complete shop was £10 for the family of 5 and it was all great quality, streets ahead of the rest. Quality is still great but the prices have risen – if I have the family here now it is about £250 for a ‘shop’!
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