{"id":92705,"date":"2025-05-11T12:23:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T12:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/92705\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T12:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T12:23:12","slug":"i-love-james-bond-so-much-i-turned-a-room-in-my-wolverhampton-home-into-a-shrine-to-my-favourite-fictional-spy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/92705\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I love James Bond so much I turned a room in my Wolverhampton home into a shrine to my favourite fictional spy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It all started with a double-sided GoldenEye vinyl banner which she took home from the old Kings Cinema in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expressandstar.com\/news\/local-hubs\/sandwell\/west-bromwich\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Bromwich<\/a> in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always liked James Bond, I used to watch the films with my dad when they were on at Christmas and on Bank Holidays.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen GoldenEye came out in 1995, I saw the film four times in the same week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBack then they had physical posters and banners on display &#8211; they\u2019re all digital now &#8211; and you could ask if you could have them when the film had finished showing and they let me. It\u2019s all grown from there,\u201d recalls Vicky.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ee1982d8-2e49-424e-8341-1ef0e58aaad2.jpg\"   alt=\"Vicky with the oldest item in her collection\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Vicky with the oldest item in her collection<\/p>\n<p>Now she has a whole room dedicated to her collection which ranges from books, board games and collectable figures and cars to more unusual items such as a musical bottle of James Bond eau de toilette, a Skyfall nail varnish set and even a box of 007 rubber bands.<\/p>\n<p>The oldest item in The Bond Room is a James Bond annual from the 60s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It all started with a double-sided GoldenEye vinyl banner which she took home from the old Kings Cinema&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,126,379,3943,12,16,15,18323,4349],"class_list":{"0":"post-92705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-features","10":"tag-local-hubs","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-weekend","16":"tag-wolverhampton"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114489183672635007","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}