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The Great Train Robbery was the robbery of £2.3 million(about £38 million today) from a Royal Mail train heading from Glasgow to London on the West Coast Main Line in the early hours of 8 August 1963 at Bridego Railway Bridge, Ledburn, near Mentmore in Buckinghamshire, England.
After tampering with the lineside signals to bring the train to a halt, a gang of 15, led by Bruce Reynolds, attacked the train.
With careful planning based on inside information from an individual known as "The Ulsterman", whose real identity has never been established, the robbers escaped with over £2.3 million. The bulk of the stolen money was never recovered.
The gang did not use any firearms; Jack Mills, the train driver, was beaten over the head with a metal bar. Mills suffered serious head injuries. After his partial recovery, he returned to work doing light duties. He retired in 1967 and died in 1970 due to an unrelated illness. He never overcame the trauma of the robbery
Eventually most of the gang were caught and a trial took place in Aylesbury in 1964. Mr Justice Edmund Davies presided over the trial, which lasted 51 days and included 613 exhibits and 240 witnesses – after which 7 of the robbers were given sentences of 30 years’ imprisonment.
File name: 08_06_020801
Title: Unidentified? Robbery
Creator/Contributor: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967 (photographer)
Date created: 1934 - 1956 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 negative : film, black & white ; 4 x 5 in.
Genre: Film negatives
Subject: Buildings; Holes
Notes: Title from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve.; Date supplied by cataloger.
Collection: Leslie Jones Collection
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: Copyright Leslie Jones.
Preferred credit: Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection.
My sister's house almost fell victim to robbery. A neighbor saw the culprit and quickly called us. The robbers ran when we came, they left their tools behind and already managed to break one lock.
Using a simple tool such as this sharpened L key to give leverage, this heavy duty lock was easily taken down.
My sister and her family is visiting her mother in law in Malang for a week during Iedul Fitri, during these times robbers scout houses to be burglarized. Thank God my sister's house didn't fall prey.
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File name: 08_06_020932
Title: Safe in the office of the S.S. Pierce Co. - Copley Square, from which four safecrackers obtained $3000 after overpowering the watchman.
Creator/Contributor: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967 (photographer)
Date created: 1938-03-07
Physical description: 1 negative : film, black & white ; 4 x 5 in.
Genre: Film negatives
Subject: Robberies; Safes
Notes: Title and date from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve.
Collection: Leslie Jones Collection
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: Copyright Leslie Jones.
Preferred credit: Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection.
Gold, robbery, firing, Yekaterinburg, бебеля 156, railway area, yuvelirka, security guard, blood, theft, police, witnesses, gold products
Золото, ограбление, стрельба, екатеринбург, бебеля 156, железнодорожный район, ювелирка, охранник, кровь, кража, полиция, свидетели, золотые изделия
Gold, robbery, firing, Yekaterinburg, бебеля 156, railway area, yuvelirka, security guard, blood, theft, police, witnesses, gold products
Золото, ограбление, стрельба, екатеринбург, бебеля 156, железнодорожный район, ювелирка, охранник, кровь, кража, полиция, свидетели, золотые изделия
Gold, robbery, firing, Yekaterinburg, бебеля 156, railway area, yuvelirka, security guard, blood, theft, police, witnesses, gold products
Золото, ограбление, стрельба, екатеринбург, бебеля 156, железнодорожный район, ювелирка, охранник, кровь, кража, полиция, свидетели, золотые изделия
Dutch postcard by J. Sleding N.V., Amsterdam, no. 51. Photo: MGM.
Red Skelton (1906/1913-1997) was an American film and TV actor and comedian. He appeared in several musicals and comedies throughout the 1940s and 1950s, and starred in 19 films, including Ship Ahoy (1941), I Dood It (1943), Ziegfeld Follies (1946), and The Clown(1953). Skelton is best known for TV's The Red Skelton Show (1951-1971). Skelton believed that his life's work was to make people laugh. H he wanted to be known as a clown because he defined it as being able to do everything.
Richard Red Skelton was born in 1906 or 1913 (sources differ) in Vincennes, Indiana, USA. He was the son of Joseph E. Skelton, a former circus clown turned grocer and Ida Mae Skelton, a cleaning woman. His father died two months before his birth. He had three older brothers. His brother Paul Skelton later worked as a prop man for TV shows. 14-year-old Skelton was introduced to show business by comedian Ed Wynn at a Vaudeville show in Vincennes. At age 16, he left home to travel with a medicine show through the Midwest. He then spent time on a showboat, worked the burlesque circuit, and entered Vaudeville in 1934. He married Edna Marie Stilwell, an usher who became his Vaudeville partner and later his chief writer and manager. She wrote the 'Doughnut Dunkers' pantomime sketch for him in which Skelton gave visual impressions of how different people ate doughnuts. The sketch won them an engagement at New York City's Loew's State Theatre in 1937. He also debuted on radio in 1937. His screen debut followed in the supporting role of a camp counsellor in Having Wonderful Time (Alfred Santell, 1938) with Ginger Rogers. In 1940, he used his 'Guzzler's Gin' comedy sketch as his successful screen test for MGM. It was later filmed in Ziegfeld Follies (1946). Film roles followed in quick succession. He starred in the war drama Flight Command (Frank Borzage, 1940) alongside Robert Taylor, Ship Ahoy (Edward Buzzell, 1941) with Eleanor Powell, and Lady Be Good (Norman Z. McLeod, 1941) alongside Lionel Barrymore. He had the lead role in Panama Hattie (Norman Z. McLeod, 1942). Skelton mostly starred in musicals like I Dood It (Vincente Minnelli, 1943), Bathing Beauty, (George Sidney, 1944) starring Esther Williams, and Ziegfeld Follies (Vincente Minnelli, a.o., 1946), a considerable critical and box-office success. I Dood It was largely a remake of Buster Keaton's Spite Marriage. Keaton was a comedy consultant to MGM after his film career had diminished. He began coaching Skelton on set during the filming and worked in this capacity on several of Skelton's films. His 1926 film The General was later rewritten to become Skelton's A Southern Yankee (S. Sylvan Simon, Edward Sedgwick, 1948). On the Radio, Skelton became the star of 'The Red Skelton Show on NBC Radio (1941-1953). He served in the United States Army during World War II (1944-1945). The pressures of entertaining troops, and fulfilling his duties as a soldier, resulted in Skelton's hospitalisation for a nervous breakdown in 1945.
In 1951, Red Skelton signed a $5 million, seven-year Hollywood contract. Edna Marie Stilwell, his now ex-wife/manager negotiated the contract for him. Skelton wanted a clause that permitted him to remain working in radio and to be able to work on television, which was then largely experimental. On TV, The Red Skelton Show (1951-1971) premiered. For two decades his show consistently stayed in the top twenty. His numerous characters, including Clem Kaddiddlehopper, George Appleby, and the seagulls Gertrude and Heathcliffe delighted audiences for decades. He insisted on getting his television skits done on the first take, even if it meant ad-libbing around blown lines and failed props. In one famous incident on live television, he managed to ad-lib while a cow defecated on stage ("Not only does she give milk, but also Pet-Ritz pies!"). He also made films such as Buster Keaton's Excuse My Dust (1951), The Clown (Robert Z. Leonard, 1953) with Jane Greer, The Great Diamond Robbery (Robert Z. Leonard, 1954) and a cameo as a gambler in Ocean's 11 (Lewis Milestone, 1960). He also played a Neanderthal man and a passenger at an airport in Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (Ken Annakin, 1965). In 1960, he purchased the old Charles Chaplin Studios on La Brea Avenue, where he produced his weekly television shows. Skelton considered himself a clown. He performed with his brown hat and did different characters by changing the look of the hat and how he wore it. In 1971, Skelton had to make way for younger presenters such as Johnny Carson. After he left television, his paintings of clowns sold for upwards of $80,000 and he also sold prints and lithographs, earning $2.5 million yearly on lithograph sales. His art dealer said he thought that Skelton had earned more money through his paintings than from his television performances. His wives were Edna Marie Stilwell (1932-1943), Georgia Davis (1945-1973; two children, Valentina and Richard), and Lothian Toland (1973 - 1997; his death). Lothian was the daughter of cinematographer Gregg Toland. His home life was not completely happy. Besides his two divorces, his son Richard died of leukaemia at age nine. In 1976, his ex-wife Georgia committed suicide by gunshot on the 18th anniversary of their son Richard's death. Red Skelton continued performing live until he became too ill. He died of pneumonia in Rancho Mirage, California in 1997. He was 91. He was interred at Forest Lawn, Glendale, California, USA, in the Great Mausoleum, Sanctuary of Benediction. Skelton was a longtime supporter of children's charities. He was awarded two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television at 6650 Hollywood Boulevard; and for Radio at 6763 Hollywood Boulevard. A bridge was built and named after him that spans the Wabash River separating Indiana and Illinois on US 50, just outside Skelton's hometown of Vincennes, Indiana. The Red Skelton Performing Arts Center located on the campus of Vincennes University was founded in his memory.
Sources: Anthony Adam (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.
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You can tell the art students are back when things like this start to appear on the wall.
Homage to Banksy seen on a passageway from Gertrude Road into Gilman Road.
On 8th August 1963 a gang of robbers carried out what was then Britain's most daring heist, netting £2.6 million, then our most high value robbery. The train, a mail train, was stopped above this bridge near Mentmore in Buckinghamshire where the deed was carried out, and money and valuables was ferried from the train to waiting vehicles on this road. To this day most of the money stolen has not been found.
The bridge, Bridge 127, also known as the Bridgego Railway bridge, is much as it was 48 years 1 month and 1 day ago! Yes the line above has been electrified and there are works on adjacent land, but this scene was pretty much how it was way back then.
This person stood and watched while the train was robbed...not sure where they came from, or why they stood there the entire time...
HYENA DOG ROBBERY Mitzie's Sister, Toronto, Canada 2008_08_22
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Daryl Purdy - Gretsch® & Voice
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Christian Lisso - Bass & Refrigerator
Charles G. Watson - Keyboards & Synthesizers
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IDEAL CUT JEWELERS Robbery at Dupont Circle South at 1365 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington DC on Friday afternoon, 2 May 2025 by Elvert Barnes Photography
FEMALE SUSPECT
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Elvert Barnes May 2025 at exbphoto.com/2025
Gold, robbery, firing, Yekaterinburg, бебеля 156, railway area, yuvelirka, security guard, blood, theft, police, witnesses, gold products
Золото, ограбление, стрельба, екатеринбург, бебеля 156, железнодорожный район, ювелирка, охранник, кровь, кража, полиция, свидетели, золотые изделия
Ironically the occupier of The (former) Bank Of Ireland Building in Belfast saw me coming, ducked inside, covered his face and then re-appeared to pose for the shot - Which is more than most of the faceless banking decision makers, who occupy the current bank buildings, are willing to do for the customers that they are supposed to value so much.
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File name: 08_06_003167
Title: Needham bank murder and robbery
Creator/Contributor: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967 (photographer)
Date created: 1934-02
Physical description: 1 negative : glass, black & white ; 4 x 5 in.
Genre: Glass negatives
Subjects: Automobiles; Evidence (Law)
Notes: Title and date from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve.; Additional information on item: Clippings N62, N63.
Collection: Leslie Jones Collection
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: Copyright © Leslie Jones.
Preferred citation: Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection.
January 11, 2012
London, ON
Just a random photo. Nothing special but I wanted to put it up.
This was taken right after a series of bank robberies in London. This is how it ended. The guy crashed into someone on Waterloo. I just happened to be walking downtown at the time and had my camera. I was running late so I couldn't get closer and take a photo, so this is all I got. If you look close, the most left person of the group on the right of the image is none other than Craig Glover of the Free Press. He was one of my professors at Fanshawe last year.
Here's a photo of a photo I picked up from an artist at the Portabello Rd. markets in London.
I don't know where this is shot, exactly, but I've been told that the apartments in the background were once ahead of their time in terms of layout and ergonomics. (They look rather hideous to me...)
A robbery suspect surrenders to police at the Kearney Nebraska Wells Fargo, 2/10/2010. Copyright Ryan McGinnis 2010. Article here: omaha.com/article/20100210/NEWS97/100219980
This man had been arrested for robbery. When he saw that a photographer was present he decided to show me where he had hidden the money. When I brought it to the attention of the deputys, they quickly removed the money from his mouth.
Photos from the Street Performance World Championship in Merrion Square, Dublin, Ireland - June 2008. Starring, Mike Wood, Alkazam, the Piano Juggler, the USA Breakdancers, Vince & Rich and Titan the Robot
Daylight Robbery + SKIN & BONE + SHYNE @ Lucy's Bar, Hednesford - Friday 24th May 2013
Photographs by ML Imagery for Midlands
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