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(01304) 613565 ‘.1 VI no/\i Acknowledgements Willi lll.I|ll\". to John l\/loii‘ l0|' the concept, l(“>(‘tll(ll .tntl iiiiiti-iitn tll lltt‘. liuillet .intl to the liillllly of Ian Fleming. l'lll(lll\l‘tl by: Kent (ounty Council Economic l)t‘V(‘ltl|)llll'|Il tliiit, III I tlll|ll|lt l|l)|| with Kent Tourism Alliance. lt/l(l(ll\ll(/\Kl It hy Ian Fleming C0l')\]Tl(]l1L(‘7)(1ll(ll'(l‘i(‘ l’|lltll|llllI||'. llll |‘I'i'» (.1 lllll |l\t'ngton ~ ~ Folkestone II The Moonraker Route and walks. If you would like to explore H _ /1 y ‘ . any of these on foot, please visit .o g _ _ ‘ . ‘ I y y d ‘ = _ ' V '1" _ ti www.kent.gov.uk/countrysideaccess , ‘ ‘ 5 T W V: '- y mu. or call 01622 663306, ~ .- ” K V “ r Monday — Friday, 11am — 3pm. : d‘ “E 7 ‘ ;\.,_\ ; / ' " . I ‘A. K, ‘ yd run-Sea / S ‘ A ‘ ‘ "‘ “ V’ ‘ ‘Dun eness ‘ ” ‘g nhurst : ,_ y m ‘1’ Q The Moonraker route fl From London, turn off the M20 at junction 8 the A20. Follow the A252 up Charing Hill to Chilham and the A28 to Canterbury. Then the to Dover. : _,;.—.m=';r‘«x=iz=.-«»'.ae=::.t,<.~'......-4~".:;=-.—4r—--:--—=—r——»~«:~.:r::;2.,s)--;.gmc —~~»,»—-; :2 V. —- §<1:v Maidstone to Charing “At six o'clock tlzat Tuesday evening towards the end ofMa_\‘, James Bond was thrashing the big Bentley down the Dover road along tlze straight stretch that rims into Maidstone." For this, take junction 4 off the M20. You might identify the Thomas Wyatt Hotel "just outside Maidstone " where Gala Brand tried to outwit Sir Hugo Drax on their way back to London. The duel between Bond in his Bentley and Drax in his white Mercedes took place on the A20 between %~,;,e . r Leeds Castle and Charing — “The Mercedes was a beautiful thing... It was a type 3005. the sports model with a disappearing hood They were unexpectedly joined by a supercharged straight—eight red Alfa Romeo, which Drax edged off the road to crash and kill its young driver. eight)‘ in third and he held it in the same gear to negotiate the hairpin at the top of the long gradient leading up to the Molash road... accelerating down the straight stretch of road past Chilham Castle Bond took the short cut out of C anterbury by the Old Dover Road and looked at his watch. It was si.\‘—thirt\'. Another fifteen minutes to Dover and then another ten minutes along the Deal road Pett Bottom Just south of Canterbury, best approached from the A2 at Bridge, lies one of the few clues to James Bond's early upbringing, recounted in his Times obituary in You Only Live Twice. He “came under the guardianship of an aunt. since deceased. Miss Charnzian Bond, and went to live with her at the quaintl_\' named hamlet of Pett Bottom near Canterbury in Kent. There, in a small cottage hard by the attractive Duck Inn. his aunt, who must have been a most erudite and acconzplished lad)‘. The Duck ""7 completed his educationfor an English public school...". The Duck Inn was one of Ian Fleming's favourite pubs and can be identified,_as well_as#tmeau_nt's co_tt_a,g_e_now Chafing ‘I’-Iill 1 “Drax took the left-hand fork at C haring and hissed up the long hill." Near the top Drax orders his servant to cut the ropes on a lorry carrying rolls of newsprint as they overtake it, so that the rolls crash down on Bond's Bentley coming up behind. “There was a series ofhuge thuds as the left—hand rolls poured ofi’ the back of the lorry into the road and went hurtling ofi’ into the darkness. And more thuds as the right—hand rolls parted. One roll burst as it landed and Drax heard a tearing rattle as the unwinding paper crashed back down the one in part of the pub. Higham Park Just off the A20 east of Bridge is Higham Park, home of the cars on which another Ian Fleming creation, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, was based. There were three such cars, still legendary in East Kent in the 1950's when Ian Fleming was writing. Count Louis Zborowski inherited Higham Park and was ""o¢,v place on the A20 between J‘ ‘<3.»,,e Leeds Castle and Charing — "The Mercedes was a beautifiil thing... It was a type 3005. the sports model with a disappearing hood". They were unexpectedly joined by a supercharged straight-eight red Alfa Romeo, which Drax edged off the road to crash and kill its young driver. cha‘ii7ig“Hi I “Drax took the left-hand fork at Charing and hissed up the long hill." Near the top Drax orders his servant to cut the ropes on a lorry carrying rolls of newsprint as they overtake it, so that the rolls crash down on Bond's Bentley coming up behind. “There was a series of huge thuds as the left-hand rolls poured off the back of the lorry into the road and went /zurtling ofi‘ into the darkness. And more thuds as the right—hand rolls parted. One roll burst as it landed and Drax heard a tearing rattle as the unwinding paper crashed back down the one in ten gradient.... " Then Drax “settled himself back to enjoy the part of the drive he had aln'a_\'s liked best, the spring woods full of bluebells and celandines on the wa_\‘ to Chilham. ” Chilham / Canterbury These extracts from Moonraker echo lan Fleming's own favourite spots on the way to St. Margaret's. “Bond did a racing change and swun g the big car left at the C haring F ork. preferring the clear road by Chilhanz and C anterbury. The car howled up to attractive Duck Inn, his aunt, who must have been a most erudite and accomplished lad)‘. The Duck ""7 completed his education for an English public school... The Duck Inn was one of Ian Fleming's favourite pubs and f can be identified as well as the aunt's cottage, now part of the pub. Higham Park Just off the A20 east of Bridge is Higham Park, home of the cars on which another lan Fleming creation, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, was based. There were three such cars, still legendary in East Kent in the 1950's when Ian Fleming was writing. Count Louis Zborowski inherited Higham Park and was a motor—racing fanatic who fitted aeroplane engines to automobile chassis, testing these monsters down the A2. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang II had a 18, 882 cc Mercedes Benz aero engine. After Count Zborowski was killed at Monza in 1924 the car was owned locally and kept near St. Margaret's. The Count also had a private light railway to bring his guests from Bekesbourne station to Higham and two 15 inch gauge 4-6-2 pacific locomotives based on the ‘Flying Scotsman’ type were sold after his death to the owner of the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Light Railway. Between 1960 and 1962 lan Fleming owned the Old Palace at Bekesbourne, just north of Higham Park, which he used for long weekends of golf with his wife Ann and son Caspar.