They meet a nearby neighbour, inventor Joseph Cavor, who wants to buy the cottage, just in case his experiments should damage it. It is implied that Bedford is in financial difficulties by a letter about his rent being well past due.
His fiancée, Katherine Callender, known as Kate, arrives by car (driving herself), visiting the house for the first time.
In 1899, Arnold Bedford lives in a romantic spot, Cherry Cottage, next to a canal lock in Dymchurch. The UN representatives question him about the Moon, and he tells them his story, which is shown in flashback. Bedford's repeated lunar claims are dismissed as senile delusion. The home's staff do not let him watch television reports of the Moon expedition because, according to the matron, it "excites him". However, they discover a Union Jack flag on the surface and a note mentioning Katherine Callender, which claims the Moon for Queen Victoria.Īttempting to trace Callender in the records office in Dymchurch in Kent, south-east England, the UN authorities discover that she has died, but that her husband Arnold Bedford is still living in a nursing home known as "The Limes". A multi-national group of astronauts in the UN spacecraft land, believing themselves to be the first lunar explorers. In 1964, the United Nations has launched a rocket flight to the Moon.
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