Wednesday 31 August 2016

London Calling

London features in most of the Bond stories, particularly in Moonraker and The Spy Who Loved Me.

For a bit of fun I have produced the below map in the style of the London Underground which attempts to show all of the locations mentioned in the 007 novels.  As per Harry Beck's original tube map, this is not strictly geographically accurate although my "stations" are approximately in the correct places.

In Goldfinger, Bond actually takes the tube from Bank station when returning back to headquarters after visiting Colonel Smithers at the Bank of England.  Even M seems to use it in Dr No after telling his driver to finish early "I'll use the tube this evening. No weather for driving a car."

Wellington Square is the joker in the pack as this is not actually mentioned in Fleming's novels, however this is the location of Bond's flat in Chelsea given by John Pearson in his book "James Bond: The Authorised Biography".

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