"Bond Street" exists as a famous, high-end shopping district in London's West End, but not as a single street with that official name. It is actually divided into two, with the southern part known as Old Bond Street and the longer northern part as New Bond Street, connecting Piccadilly to Oxford Street.
Although THE Bond Street of central London fame doesn't technically exist, London does have two Bond Streets — one off Chiswick High Road, the other, a pleasant enough but rather uneventful cul-de-sac in Forest Gate. As far as we know, neither has an auction house or a song by a legendary musician named after it.
Annual total crime rate in your local area is 2799 crimes per thousand resident population. This can be rated as 10 out of 10 or high crime level compared to other local areas in England and Wales.
Bond Street links Oxford Street and Piccadilly. Old Bond Street is at the southern end between Piccadilly and Burlington Gardens. The northern section, New Bond Street, extends to Oxford Street. The entire street is around 0.5 miles (0.8 km) long.
Bond Street is a place where history rubs shoulders with contemporary style and extravagance. Former famous residents include Lord Nelson and 18th-century author, Jonathan Swift. Famous fashion brand names found on the street today include Stella McCartney, Ralph Lauren, Dior, Gucci, Chanel and Alexander McQueen.
Over in the City of London, you'll find Watling Street. Connecting Queen Victoria Street to St Paul's Cathedral (and offering a pretty gorgeous view in the process), Watling Street puts forward a fairly convincing case as the oldest street in London.
007 primarily refers to the iconic code number for British secret agent James Bond, signifying his elite "00" status with a "license to kill," with "7" identifying him within that group; it also humorously denotes a football player with zero goals or assists in their first seven games, and has other niche meanings like Microsoft Office 2007 (O07) or a Thai refugee camp.
That said, across recent years (patterns visible in Met and ONS dashboards) the highest volumes of theft and street-theft reports tend to be concentrated in central shopping and nightlife boroughs — notably Westminster (West End, Oxford Street, Leicester Square), Camden (markets, busy streets), Lambeth (parts of ...
Bond Street is now, as much as it ever was, known for its elegant offering and exclusive labels. It is still the home of prestigious brands such as Burberry, Chanel, Dolce & Gabbana, Louis Vuitton, and Prada… to name but a few.
Scenes were shot in London Underground stations, Smithfield car park in West Smithfield, the National Gallery, Southwark, Whitehall, Parliament Square, Charing Cross station, the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, Cadogan Square and Tower Hill.
Fleming himself mentions only five 00 agents in all. According to Moonraker, James Bond is the most senior of three 00 agents; the two others were 008 and 0011.
James Bond's creator, Ian Fleming, always denied that he modeled his famous protagonist, Agent 007, on himself or anyone else he'd known during his secretive wartime service in British naval intelligence.
In the films and novels, the 00 prefix indicates Bond's discretionary "licence to kill", in executing his duties. Bond's number - 007 - may have been assigned by Fleming in reference to one of British naval intelligence's key achievements of the First World War: the breaking of the German diplomatic code.
Brydges Place. Brydges Place is an alley between St Martin's Lane and Bedfordbury in the City of Westminster, Greater London, running alongside the Coliseum. It is especially narrow, being just 1 foot 3 inches (0.38 m) wide at one point, and so is commonly claimed to be the narrowest street in London.
