Bond scenes to be re-enacted at Amberley 007 weekend

TO celebrate its starring role in the 1985 film A View to a Kill, Amberley Museum is holding a James Bond Weekend over March 28/29.

With a re-enactment of the famous scenes featuring Roger Moore and Stacey Sutton outside Main Strike Mine, appearances by stuntman and actor Derek Lyons, Aston Martins, a children’s codebreaking trail, films and music, the event will coincidentally precede the early April release of the 25th Bond film No Time to Die.

The scenes leading to the blowing up of May Day, played by Grace Jones, were filmed at the entrance of a quarry tunnel near Brockham station at the museum, which appeared as Main Strike Mine in the film. The original Zorin Industries locomotive and trucks that featured in A View to a Kill will be running in and out of the mine entrance over the weekend in a re-enactment of the scenes filmed there.

Attractions

Permission has been granted for A View to a Kill to be shown, as well as archive footage of the filming at Amberley and a BBC interview with Roger Moore on the Amberley set in 1985. New James Bond story boards will be erected near the ‘Mine’ entrance featuring images taken by local people who happened to see the filming take place. These boards will be unveiled by the museum’s first director Ian Dean, who was present at the filming.

Derek Lyons, who was a stuntman and actor in several Bond films, including A View to a Kill, will be reminiscing about his experiences and signing photographs and Bond experts from the 007 magazine will also be hosting Q and A sessions. A cavalcade of Aston Martin cars around the museum site will take place at 2pm each day.

It is hoped that visitors will come dressed as Bond or costars and win spot prizes for the best dressed.

Two musical acts will perform Bond themes over the weekend – Vintage Candy, a Sussex based duo, on the Saturday and Sarah Sussex Violinist on the Sunday.