UNITED KINGDOM – London, Childers Street // Skyfall (2012)
Where do hide a real tresure? In southern London! In “Skyfall”, Bond brings back the Aston Martin DB5 – from an inconspicuous location.
Why Bond was here
When former MI6 agent Silva (Javier Bardem) turns bad, he is up to bring down both the secret service and M (Judy Dench). He almost succeeds in London, before James Bond (Daniel Craig) brings him in. But the arrest was part of the plan, Silva soon is out again. So to protect M, Bond brings her to his old family residence “Skyfall” in Scotland. They make the journey in style: with Bond’s old Aston Martin DB5, tucked away in a garage in Childers Street.
How you gonna get there
Childers Street is a quiet side road in the southern London area Deptford. The best way to get there is to head for “New Cross” station with the Overground Line. Then make your way up north for a ten-minute-walk.
The garage is hidden in the arches of the Parkside Industrial Estate, beneath the railway track. It is the fifth one behind the junction of Childers Street and Arklow Road.
Good to know
The DB5 is Bond’s signature car. Though Ian Fleming introduced an Aston Martin DB3 in the novel “Goldfinger”, during production for the movie, the more contemporary DB5 was used. Thus, a motorized love affaire began. After “Goldfinger”, the Aston Martin DB5 returned in “Thunderball”, “Goldeneye”, “Tomorrow Never Dies” and “Casino Royale” before making a sixth return in “Skyfall”. “The DB5 was part of my boyhood, my generation’s boyhood,” says director Sam Mendes. Therefore is was a no-brainer, Mendes wanted to reintroduce the famous car.
Though the DB5 gets roasted by Silva at the end of the movie, Q is able to rebuilt it. In both “Spectre” and “No Time To Die” the Aston Martin appears again, making it the eighth entry. So in total, different Aston Martins have starred in 11 of the 23 Bond films.
We discovered the DB5 garage at Childers Street on a night walk after a fine dinner at “Kudu” restaurant. The joint specializes on African cuisine, offering mouth-watering chicken hearts, Kalahari biltong or “Braai broodjie” agnolotti. It is just a bus drive away. And if you don’t fancy food – “Smokey Kudu”, the cocktail bar, is just next door.
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