Secrets & Espionage

Where the state kept its secrets and where the spies were made up: the bugged mansion, the bunkers, the headquarters you can only look at, the memorials to the agents, and the addresses of Bond and Smiley.

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Ian Fleming's house, 22 Ebury Street

Where Bond's creator lived through the war, a Belgravia bachelor flat with a black-painted sitting room and a plaque from English Heritage.

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Fleming took the flat at 22b in 1934, when he was a stockbroker with a taste for first editions and dinner parties, and kept it until 1945, through the Naval Intelligence years that furnished Bond with his world; the rooms had been a chapel and he decorated them in grey and black with a table of books on the occult. He wrote Casino Royale in Jamaica, not here, but the address is the nearest thing to a Bond birthplace in London, and Bond's own flat is a few streets away in a square off the King's Road that Fleming never named.

Where
22 Ebury Street, SW1W 8LW
Nearest station
London Victoria · 3 min walk

A private house; the English Heritage plaque is on the front.

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