20 Things You Didn't Know About A View To A Kill (1985)
8. An Abandoned Silver Mine?
A Bond Villain’s lair is usually built to be destroyed, if not by the villain, then certainly by James Bond (with some help from the special effects department).
Indeed, Zorin had intended for his silver mine to be utterly destroyed as part of Project Main Strike and viewers get a grim taste of that when the psychotic former KGB agent mercilessly machine guns his own workers to death.
(Something that Roger Moore strongly objected to).
Whilst the interior of the mine was built inside the Albert R. Broccoli 007 Stage (the original 007 Stage having burned to the ground during the filming of Sir Ridley Scott’s 1985 film, Legend), the exterior of the mine was quite real.
The exterior was provided by Amberley Chalk Pits in West Sussex, looking convincingly like an isolated Californian mine. Now known as Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre, it is adjacent to Amberley railway station on the Arun Valley Line and is easily accessible from London Victoria. It continues to celebrate its association with the James Bond franchise.