Editing Orpington (section)

==Popular culture==
===Orpington chicken and duck===
{{Main|Orpington (chicken)|Buff Duck}}
Orpington is known for the "Buff", "Black" and "Speckled" [[Orpington (chicken)|chicken]]s bred locally by William Cook in the 1890s.<ref name="Willey"/> One could see the [[Buff Orpington]] at Tripes Farm, [[Chelsfield]] Lane until the late 1990s when the chicken coop was removed from the farm. [[Buff Duck|Buff Orpington Ducks]] were also developed by Cook. The town still has a pub called The Buff, originally named in honour of the Buff Orpington.

===Orpington car===
The Orpington Car, designed by Frank Smith and built by Smith & Milroy Ltd at their works in Wellington Road, was shown at the 1920 Motor Show. It was a two-seater convertible, with a [[Rumble seat|dickey seat]], and a 10 [[horsepower]] (7.5&nbsp;kW) engine.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Tim Harding |author2=Bryan Goodman |title=Motoring Around Kent: The First Fifty Years |date=15 July 2009 |publisher=Amberley Publishing Limited, 2009 |isbn=9781445623740 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JTyIAwAAQBAJ&q=%22Orpington+Car%22&pg=PT94 |access-date=6 August 2019 |archive-date=29 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210329190200/https://books.google.com/books?id=JTyIAwAAQBAJ&q=%22Orpington+Car%22&pg=PT94 |url-status=live }}</ref> Although briefly successful, Smith and Milroy could not compete with [[mass production]], and the last car was commonly believed{{who|date=September 2020}} to have been built in 1925.{{citation needed|date=September 2020}} The only known survivor at the time reportedly once appeared in the 1970s television series ''Crossroads'', but this has not been substantiated. There are now no known surviving examples.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mulligan |first1=Trevor |title=Rediscovering... the Orpington Car: The Definitive Guide |year=2012 |publisher=Timeline Books, 2012 |isbn=9780957312906 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GIT3MwEACAAJ&q=%22Orpington+Car%22 |access-date=6 August 2019 |archive-date=29 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210329190211/https://books.google.com/books?id=GIT3MwEACAAJ&q=%22Orpington+Car%22 |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Orpington man===
Journalists in the 1960s used "Orpington man" to designate a typical member of the lower middle class, for example as the target audience of an electoral or advertising appeal.<ref>David Childs,  ''Britain since 1945'' (3rd ed. 1992) pp 140, 146</ref><ref name="theguardian2">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/feb/14/lord-avebury-eric-lubbock-obituary|work=The Guardian|title=Lord Avebury obituary {{pipe}} Politics {{pipe}} The Guardian|access-date=13 January 2017|archive-date=10 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170110091836/https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/feb/14/lord-avebury-eric-lubbock-obituary|url-status=live}}</ref>

===TV appearances===
* Areas of Orpington were used as filming locations for the 1978 crime film ''[[Give Us Tomorrow]]''.<ref name="imdb2">{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245920/|publisher=imdb.com|title=Give Us Tomorrow (1978) - IMDb|access-date=13 January 2017|archive-date=11 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211014148/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245920/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* ''Who Believes In Orpington'' was a series about the role of the church in contemporary suburban life. Aired February 1988.<ref name="londonsscreenarchives">{{cite web|url=https://www.londonsscreenarchives.org.uk/public/details.php?id=1695|publisher=londonsscreenarchives.org.uk|title=London's Screen Archives: Who Believes in Orpington|access-date=13 January 2017|archive-date=29 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210329190209/https://www.londonsscreenarchives.org.uk/title/1695/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* The [[Save the Children]] shop in Orpington High Street was the subject of [[Mary Queen of Shops|''Mary Queen of Charity Shops'']], where [[Mary Portas]] set out to improve the takings and image of the charity shop. Aired June 2009 on BBC2.<ref name="bbc">{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00l1tft|publisher=bbc.co.uk|title=BBC Two - Mary Queen of Charity Shops, Episode 1|access-date=13 January 2017|archive-date=14 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160414190925/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00l1tft|url-status=live}}</ref>
* A British [[Sky UK|Sky TV]] promo live-action recreation of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' opening sequence was partly filmed in Lansdowne Avenue, Orpington.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-02-22 |title=The Simpsons Couch Gag That Was Filmed In London |url=https://londonist.com/london/film/the-simpsons-couch-gag-that-was-filmed-in-london |access-date=2023-07-01 |website=Londonist |language=en}}</ref>
*Forest Way, Orpington was the filming location for the tree scene in the 2020 [[John Lewis & Partners|John Lewis]] Christmas advert.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Orpington plays central role in John Lewis Christmas ad|work=News Shopper|url=https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/18869166.orpington-plays-central-role-john-lewis-christmas-ad/}}</ref>