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Photograph by Lisa Billingham, Billibee Creative for <a href="http://www.midlandsrocks.co.uk"Midlands Rocks
© 2015 Lisa Billingham, Billibee Creative
Old Hall street jewel robbery 1956 Fog would combine with smoke to be known as ‘smog,’ a vile vapour that covered everything with a black film.
The housewife particularly hated smog because it brought about a mammoth cleaning task.
The beginning of 1956 saw a blanket of smog covering the town for two days. A thick ‘peasouper’, as it was known, descended on the town causing chaos.
Traffic in and out of town was reduced to a crawl.
Bus conductors were forced to walk in front of their vehicles as drivers struggled to maintain services.
Visibility was down to three yards; motorist who did not follow ‘nose to tail’ found themselves on the wrong side of the road.
People with respiratory problems were advised to stay indoors.
Police at Middleton went about their duties wearing specially designed smog masks while members of the public pressed handkerchiefs, scarves and wads of cotton to their mouths to avoid breathing in undiluted fog.
At Old Hall Street a group of thieves took advantage of the severe weather conditions.
Under the cover of the thick smog and darkness, they removed the roof slates to gain entry into a jewellers shop.
On the roof they neatly stacked the slates in piles. Once inside they were not so considerate, for they stole a large quantity of ladies and gents wristwatches, pocket watches and alarm clocks and imitation jewellery.
A neighbour who noticed the neatly stacked slates and informed the police spotted the break-in.
The Carte de Visite
A carte de visite that was published by Sebright, Artist & Photographer, Near Linslade New Church, Leighton Station.
Linslade is in Leighton Buzzard.
The Great Train Robbery
The Great Train Robbery took place just outside Leighton Buzzard.
The Great Train Robbery was the robbery of £2.6 million from a Royal Mail train heading from Glasgow to London on the West Coast Main Line in the early hours of the 8th. August 1963, at Bridego Railway Bridge.
After tampering with the lineside signals to bring the train to a halt, a gang of 15, led by Bruce Reynolds, attacked the train. Other gang members included Gordon Goody, Buster Edwards, Charlie Wilson, Roy James, John Daly, Jimmy White, Ronnie Biggs, Tommy Wisbey, Jim Hussey, Bob Welch and Roger Cordrey, as well as three men known only as numbers "1", "2" and "3", two of whom later turned out to be Harry Smith and Danny Pembroke. A 16th. man, an unnamed retired train driver, was also present.
With careful planning based on inside information from an individual known as "The Ulsterman", named (erroneously) as Patrick McKenna in 2014, the robbers escaped with over £2.6 million (equivalent to £56 million today). The bulk of the stolen money was never recovered.
Though the gang did not use any firearms, Jack Mills, the train driver, was beaten over the head with a metal bar. Mills was so severely injured that he never worked again. After the robbery, the gang hid at Leatherslade Farm.
After the police found this hideout, incriminating evidence led to the eventual arrest and conviction of most of the gang. The ringleaders were sentenced to thirty years in jail.
Leighton Buzzard station was the location for part of the film Robbery, which is based on the Great Train Robbery. The 1967 film starred Stanley Baker and James Booth.
Analysis of robbery figures accounting for population density (see code.google.com/p/spatial-cluster-detection/ for code)
LAPD Robbery-Homicide Division Capt. Kevin McClure told reporters Thursday detectives had been assigned to assist in the investigation of a fire at a home in the Hollywood Hills that claimed the life of an L.A. City firefighter. (Eric Leonard/KFI NEWS)
Robbery in a convenience store, central Stockholm.
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Plaque describing the last stage coach robbery in Kern county, which occurred in 1896 near the former gold mining town of Havilah.
A white male suspect in his 50's or 60's robbed the Citywide Banks branch on Canyon Blvd. this afternoon. Please call 303-441-3333 with information.
Train Robbery on the Sumpter Valley Railroad
When planning a summer visit to Baker County in northeast Oregon, be sure to add the Sumpter Valley Railroad to your travel itinerary. History comes to life aboard the vintage trains as you travel through the heart of gold country in the scenic Sumpter Valley. Running between McEwen and the historic mining town of Sumpter, and occasionally run into the Gold Rush Bandits, it’s a guarantee that the whole family will enjoy this relaxing trip back in time without having to leave the comfort of the present.
Plan ahead and ride during one of the train robbery reenactment weekends when the Gold Rush Bandits are in town.
The Sumpter Valley Railroad is open weekends and major holidays, Memorial Day Weekend through the last weekend in September. Round trips take just over two hours, including layover. Make your reservations at www.svry.com
For more information about the Sumpter Valley Railway including scheduled train robberies, or other Baker County events and attractions, visit the Baker County tourism website at www.basecampbaker.com
Rolf Boldrewood (actually Thomas A Browne)
"Robbery under Arms"
Remington, London, 1888
3-volume edition (first edition)
© Dirk HR Spennemann 2008
All Rights Reserved
The Common Myna is a hollow-nesting species, it nests and breeds in protected hollows found either naturally in trees or artificially on buildings (for example, recessed windowsills or low eaves). This aggressiveness has enabled the Common Myna to displace many breeding pairs of native hollow-nesters, thereby reducing their reproductive success. Spring being the breeding and nesting season of other birds, this one was attacking the parrot bill to capture it.
In September, 2009, Police were on duty outside Morrisons in Friockheim after a robbery. Only 16 years ago, and I can't remember a thing about it, even if I have lived four doors away for 46 years!
Een 3D Do-It-Yourself tentoonstelling in Leidsche Rijn
Ooit een uitgeprinte Rietveld stoel gezien? Geluisterd naar een draaiorgel van plastic? Of een trein gestolen uit het Spoorwegmuseum?
In samenwerking met de zeven grootste musea van Utrecht organiseert SETUP een 3D Do-It-Yourself expositie in Leidsche Rijn, genaamd DE DIGITALE KUNSTROOF. Deze zomer worden in tentoonstellingspaviljoen ‘Het Gebouw’ diverse 3D-geprinte kopieën van Utrechtse kunstwerken getoond. Blinkende euro's uit het Geldmuseum, glazen beesten uit het Universiteitsmuseum, een spelend draaiorgel uit Museum Speelklok; alles in 3D ingescand en uitgeprint. Kom kijken naar wat de 3D printer met kunst kan doen!
News helicopter circling the area.
So I went to lunch at 11:20 today and I returned around 12:00. My co-worker had left to get lunch right before I got back. Some other people in my office and I noticed many, many police cars and emergency vehicles going by. They blocked off the road and we soon found out there was a bank robbery about two miles away from where I worked and then a high-speed chase and gunshots fired by the suspects and police. They chase lasted only a mile or so, and ended up about a 1/2 mile from my work. The scene was cleared and the road opened again at about 7 p.m. tonight. The two suspects died and two officers were wounded. One was treated at the scene and the other is in the hospital and he should be fine.
My coworker went right through the middle of this at around 11:55. I walked down around 1:00 to see what happened and then we both went together around 4:00.
Gold Rush Bandits Robbing the Sumpter Valley Railroad and then filming for an upcoming movie at the Sumpter Depot .
The Gold Rush Bandits are a particularly gregarious group of bandits who routinely rob the historic Sumpter Valley Railroad as it arrives in the Gold Rush town of Sumpter.
In addition to this weekend's Train Robbery, we also got to spend some time with a visiting film crew shooting on location for an upcoming movie in which the Sumpter Valley Railroad will have a cameo appearance
The Sumpter Valley Railroad is open weekends and major holidays, Memorial Day Weekend through the last weekend in September. Round trips take just over two hours, including a layover in either McEwen or Sumpter. There are also many special events throughout the season, ranging from train robberies to photo specials.
The Railroad’s station is located in Oregon’s Sumpter Dredge State Park and visitors to the railroad can also tour this iconic gold dredge during their visit to Sumpter and the railroad
For more information including train schedules and upcoming special events visit
www.sumptervalleyrailroad.orgor for more information about Sumpter, and other historic sites and attractions in Baker County visit the Baker County Tourism website at www.basecampbaker.com
Don't trust these robbing bastards. They will find you somewhere to live and ask you to pay a deposit, all good. They tell you the charges and say there won't be any extra, fine. You pay and right before you are ready to make the final arrangements they ask for £150 to check references. When you ask what references will they be checking that cost £150, they will mutter and say something about credit checks. You will tell them the last time you ran a credit check it cost £1.50 but you can understand there is a fee. Starting to suspect that they are in fact trying to fleece you, you ask what proof will be provided that they actually did the check and they say they will show you the email! WTF? In any case you say okay but will there be any more hidden charges and they say no. A matter of minutes later they try to distract you while whispering something about a payment for insurance quotes. You start to wonder if this is the same insurance that the landlord is already paying. Long story short(er), you tell them to eff orf and they say they will keep the deposit you have already paid but you decide that it's just easier to lose the deposit than it is to risk many more hidden charges.
A police at one of the entrances to the mall in Handen. Informing people about the situation. There was a robbery here today, after which a suspected bomb was found close to a school next to the mall. The robbers took off on mopeds. A police helicopter was flying over the area the whole time I was there.
Een 3D Do-It-Yourself tentoonstelling in Leidsche Rijn
Ooit een uitgeprinte Rietveld stoel gezien? Geluisterd naar een draaiorgel van plastic? Of een trein gestolen uit het Spoorwegmuseum?
In samenwerking met de zeven grootste musea van Utrecht organiseert SETUP een 3D Do-It-Yourself expositie in Leidsche Rijn, genaamd DE DIGITALE KUNSTROOF. Deze zomer worden in tentoonstellingspaviljoen ‘Het Gebouw’ diverse 3D-geprinte kopieën van Utrechtse kunstwerken getoond. Blinkende euro's uit het Geldmuseum, glazen beesten uit het Universiteitsmuseum, een spelend draaiorgel uit Museum Speelklok; alles in 3D ingescand en uitgeprint. Kom kijken naar wat de 3D printer met kunst kan doen!
Leptogaster sp raiding a planthopper stuck in a web. There's some video at the bottom of the page here:
Manager:
- Frau Rebecca, how much will you withdraw from the account?
Gerda:
- All! And plus 500 thousand dollars!
In this undated photo released Monday Feb. 11, 2008, by the Swiss Police, showing a reproduction of Claude Monet's painting "Poppies near Vetheuil", which is one of four paintings by major artists, worth some 180 million Swiss francs (US$163.2 million; euro112.4 million), which were stolen Sunday Feb. 10, 2008, from the private museum E.G. Buehrle Collection, in Zurich, Switzerland. Police released images of the paintings, provided by E.G. Buehrle Collection, as they reported Monday that paintings by Cezanne, Degas, van Gogh and Monet were stolen by armed men who are still at large. (AP Photo/Keystone/Stadtpolizei Zuerich via Foundation E.G. Buehrle Collection) ** NO SALES ** MANDATORY CREDIT **
Butler County Sheriff Richard K. Jones announces this afternoon that the U.S. Bank on Rt. 4 at Liberty-Fairfield Rd was robbed at approximately 2:31 p.m. The suspect is described as an older white male, with white/grey hair shoulder length. He appeared to be approximately 6'0 tall and 180 lbs. The subject was wearing dark color pants, light blue T-Shirt shirt with Las Vegas in black print and black ballcap. The suspect fled on foot with an undetermined amount of cash. No weapon was displayed, the teller was handed a note during the robbery. provided photo