The Glades (Bromley)

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The Glades

Location	Bromley, London, England
Opening date	1991
Management	Capital Shopping Centres
No. of stores and services	126
No. of anchor tenants	3
Total retail floor area	421,000 sq
Parking	1,530 spaces
No. of floors	2

The Glades is a shopping centre part-owned by Capital Shopping Centres. It is located in Bromley, South-East London. It has a total of 108 stores trading from a combined floorspace of 421,000 sq ft. It is the home of a large Waterstones book store (formally Ottakar's).

The Glades also houses a large Zavvi, the logo can be seen upon the main entrance. The centre is also home to GAME, one of two in the town centre, Zara, H&M, Debenhams, M&S, Orange, Gamleys and many more.

The centre was home to one of the first UNIQLO outlets in the UK but this was closed after a rationalisation of the chain following poor initial trading in the country.^[1] The company has since opened another outlet in Bromley outside the centre in The Mall.

The Glades has a gift voucher that can be used in most of the stores around the centre.

1 Development
2 Other Shops
3 T.V Appearances
4 Transport
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Development

Recently The Glades had a £25 million extension next to the main entrance which provides additional retail units, car parking spaces and customer facilities. The extension opened on the 1st of may 2008. ^[2]

[edit] Other Shops

The Glades has an impressive line up of shops (having over 120).

There is also a Creche. There is also a large Leisure Centre called The Pavilion it includes a large Swimming Pool with flume tunnels. Last Christmas saw an ice rink erected in the adjacent Queens Park Gardens.

A new Church and modern flats were also built by the owners on the Glades land. 18 million people visited the Glades last year.^[3].

[edit] T.V Appearances

Recently on T.V the Glades featured on an episode of Brainiac science abuse 4 and was part of an undercover investigation to see if more women would go on a date with a man in a bunny costume or in casual clothing. You'll be surprised on which got more dates

[edit] Transport

There are two train stations in Central Bromley, to get to the centre.

Bromley South railway station - Closest, and provides services to London Victoria, London Blackfriars and Ashford International
Bromley North railway station - Close, provides services to Grove Park only. As is on a short line.
There is also a bus interchange outside the centre.