the three bells, although the bells were recast in 1987. In 1995-97 major roof repairs took place to the nave, chancel, chapel and vestry at a cost of nearly £70,000. The original parish registers dating back to 1559 were stolen in 1948 when vandals broke into the church and threw the church records into the River Cray, but copies of the register from 1559 to 1832 had been made. The original churchyard was extended in 1876 courtesy of a donation of one acre of land by Robert Arnold Vansittart, and again in 1885. The churchyard includes an unusual iron stone grave slab which marked the burial of Martin Manning 'Yeoman' in 1656 (although the inscription is no longer legible). The granite Sir John Pender monument was blown over in the hurricane of October 1987 despite its great weight and later re-erected by the Pender family and Sir John's old company Cable & Wireless plc. In 1996 when contractors were cleaning out the void just above the walls around the nave, they found a Daily Express newspaper dated 29 October 1957 in an envelope signed by the seven workmen who had been installing a gas-fired boiler. Transport Buses Foots Cray is served by 5 London Buses routes. 51 to Orpington via St Paul's Cray & St Mary Cray and to Woolwich via Sidcup, Blackfen, Welling & Plumstead Common. 233 to Eltham via Sidcup & New Eltham and to Swanley via Ruxley. 321 to New Cross Gate via Sidcup, New Eltham, Eltham, Eltham Green, Lee Green & Lewisham (24 hours). 492 to Bluewater via Ruxley Corner, North Cray, Bexley, Bexleyheath, Crayford, Dartford, Stone & Greenhithe and to Sidcup. R11 to Green Street Green via St Paul's Cray, St Mary Cray & Orpington and to Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup via Sidcup High Street. Rail The nearest National Rail stations to Foots Cray are Sidcup and St Mary Cray. Industry and Commerce The Coca-Cola Company has a large manufacturing and bottling plant in Foots Cray which opened in 1961 and employs 361 people. This plant was where Dasani water was produced. Kolster-Brandes was a manufacturer of radio and television sets that moved to Foots Cray in 1928. The company was later acquired by ITT. The Kolster-Brandes company rugby team, which was formed in 1967, is now called Foots Cray RUFC and competes to this day. The team's badge incorporates the STC letters which represent