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The Baker Street bank burglary: Britain's most audacious bank heist
Gavin masterminded a plan to break into the vault beneath a branch of Lloyds Bank at 187 Baker Street, London. The location was fitting considering that the idea for the robbery had come to Gavin ...
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Was Princess Margaret the reason for an armed bank robbery? Let’s revisit the stranger-than-fiction case of the Walkie-Talkie bank job
Which brings us onto the Baker Street robbery ... was planned by Anthony Gavin, a career criminal, who was inspired by "The Red-Headed League", a short story by Arthur Conan Doyle in which Sherlock ...
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The Baker Street bank burglary: 'You'd have to be an absolute idiot or an absolute mastermind to try'
Episode one focuses on the Baker Street heist, one of the most daring bank robberies ... Dr Emmeline Taylor: It was the jewel in the crown of any active robber in the 1970s. Lloyds Bank was renowned ...