[5] In August 2006, Stagecoach sold its London bus operations to Macquarie Bank for £264 million (equivalent to £482,478,000 in 2023).

[8][9] Between 1988 and 1994, Selkent had a standard London Buses red livery with a grey skirt, though the fleet of dual-door Alexander PS types on Dennis Lance chassis delivered for use on route 36B in 1992 wore a grey, white, black and red livery.

[3] Following privatisation, Selkent adopted an all-red livery with white Stagecoach East London fleetnames.

This was replaced by a new standard bus livery of a dark blue skirt and orange and light blue swirl at the rear, with Stagecoach's standard off-white replaced by red to conform with Transport for London contractual requirements for buses on TfL services to be 80% red.

Built at a cost of £23,000, it was originally designed to house 60 buses, although the plan was to ultimately enlarge it to take an additional 40 when operations required it.

FS-class Ford Transit minibuses were introduced in 1972 for local route B1,[10] before these were replaced in 1976 by BS-class Bristol LHSs.

In slightly more recent years, a plot of land on the opposite side of the side road (Lower Gravel Road) was developed into an open yard for storage of the larger number of generally longer, taller, wider vehicles required for today's operations.

Thomas Tilling gained an agreement in 1923 to double the size of Catford and to open a new garage in Bromley to cope with the new housing estates that were springing up around the area.

The roof has had to be raised twice, first in 1930 to enable double deck buses to use the garage and again in 1948 to accommodate AEC Regent III RTs.

[17] The garage would later be home to 35 Mercedes-Benz Citaro articulated buses that worked on route 453 between March 2003 and April 2008,[14]: 19–20  after which the service was operated by London General.