Bond's Childhood

CmdrAtticus

I came upon this image of the Arnisdale House hunting lodge built by Fleming's father Valentine in 1989. I wondered if the idea for the Skyfall lodge came from this. Though painted white and set into a more colorful area near the Scottish coast, it reminds me of it. Also looking through Fleming's early years and his family, it seems to me that they could be basing some of Bond's background from SF on Fleming. Though Fleming was born in Mayfair and the family was living at the Brazier Park country house in Ipsden, Oxfordshire (which, by the way, is now a social research school - website http://www.braziers.org.uk), they may have patterned Craig's Bond childhood on Fleming as far as having come from a wealthy family with a Scottish estate. Since they will probably never give anymore details in the future on his childhood, we will never know, but it still seems logical to me.

Arnisdale House
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Brazier Park
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AlphaOmegaSin

They do look similar -{