has been somewhat overshadowed by the growth of Orpington, which now provides local communities with their main shopping and business facilities. Today it is mostly suburban housing, to a large amount of working class and ex traveller people. Originally the main feature of the town was its small parade of shops which was once longer than Orpington High Street. Today, it is the Nugents Retail Park on Cray Avenue which include several large stores including Marks and Spencers and Next. However, before Nugents opened, the industrial estates of both St Mary Cray and St Paul's Cray were a dominant feature on Cray Avenue and Sevenoaks Way. Many of these grew as part of the new 'light electrical industries' which were springing up. Throughout the 1950s, the area now known as The Nugent housed two large Morphy Richards factories. Their business began in the small factory which used to be by the railway embankment, on the opposite side of the road. They eventually moved out of the area in the 1960s. Other areas are now home to retail outlets such as PC World, Comet, Land of Leather, Homebase, JJB Sports, MFI, Currys, Carpet Right and Arco. These retailers list their stores as being Orpington branches. The art deco tower of the Allied Bakery, formerly Tip Top Bakeries, is a local landmark. Just along from the bakery is Lagoon Road, so named because in the 1930s there was an outdoor lido called the Blue Lagoon. Nearby areas St Mary Cray borders St Paul's Cray to the north west and north, Swanley to the north east, Crockenhill to the east, Orpington to the south east, south and south west, and Petts Wood to the west. Transport Rail St Mary Cray station connects the area with Southeastern services to London Victoria, Ashford International via Maidstone East and to Gillingham, as well as Thameslink services to London Blackfriars via Catford and to Sevenoaks. Buses 51 to Woolwich via St Pauls Cray, Foots Cray, Sidcup, Blackfen, Welling & Plumstead Common OR to Orpington. Operated by Go-Ahead London for London Buses. 273 to Lewisham via St Pauls Cray, Chislehurst, Coldharbour, Grove Park, Horn Park, Lee & Hither Green OR to Petts Wood via Poverest. Operated by Stagecoach London for London Buses. 477 to Dartford via Crockenhill, Swanley, Hextable & Wilmington OR to Orpington. Operated by Arriva Kent Thameside. N199 to Trafalgar Square via Orpington, Petts Wood, Bromley,