The Galleries: Bristol shopping centre to remain closed due to power cut

The Galleries will remain closed again today (Tuesday October 17) due to an ongoing problem with its power supply.

The shopping centre started to experience a power cut late on Sunday afternoon and didn’t open at all on Monday.

In a statement this morning, the management confirmed that The Galleries in Broadmead will remain shut today.

On social media, an update said: “We will remain closed on Tuesday 17th October due to a power supply issue. We are doing all we can to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. Thank you to our customers for their patience and understanding during this time.”

The outage has impacted a large section of the shopping centre and the car park, as well as a number of businesses attached to The Galleries including Santander bank and Boots, which remain closed.

Centre manager David Wait told Bristol World: “It has taken part of the centre out and part of the car park out so for the safety of customers and retailers, we’re not open while the issue is being fixed.

“We have engineers on site and we’re trying to fix it as soon as possible but it’s challenging. We’ll open as soon as we can because we don’t want to cause any disruption. We’ll let people know as soon as we can.

“In my four years at The Galleries, it’s the first time I’ve seen an issue like this. The last thing we want to do is close because it disrupts customers and retailers.“Unfortunately, Boots and Santander have had to close, as well as the Post Office inside WH Smith.”