Coward and Fleming.

St Margaret`s at Cliffe, near Deal. In 1945 Noel Coward bought these three houses . One for himself,one for his two playwrite friends and the last one for his Mum. He called his house White Cliffs. Spent £2000 pining the chalk cliffs back. When he wasn`t busy having Katherine Hepburn round to swim in the freezing sea , he wrote Blithe Spirit and Peace In Our Time there. Got fed up with the "crowded holidaymakers , noisy hoi polloi" and legged it to Jamaica. Just before he left,sold his house to Ian Fleming and his wife.
Fleming wrote "Moonraker" there. He was a very heavy drinker, rarely took his car out, just as well. When he and his wife needed to go to the shops in Deal, they would catch the bus from Dover which stopped in the village .
The number on the bus was,and still is to this day,  007.