Kingsdown
Kingsdown is assumed to be the setting for Ian
Fleming's novel, MOONRAKER, published in 1955. It
is here - 'on the edge of the cliffs between Dover and
Dear - that Sir Hugo Drax is building the Moonraker, an atomic
rocket. And it is here that James Bond is sent to investigate.
However, as previously ‘secret’ photographs come to light, you can
easily picture James Bond in Flemings own St. Margarets Bay with
its Sci-Fi radar masts and cold-war bunker disguised as a
bungalow.
As in GOLDFINGER, Fleming shows his knowledge of the
local area and he leaves us with clear images of the landscape in
his description of 'the black and white confetti of the ravens
and gulls tossed against the vivid backcloth of green fields.
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