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  2. Baker Street robbery - Wikipedia

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    The Baker Street robbery was the burglary of safety deposit boxes at the Baker Street branch of Lloyds Bank in London, on the night of 11 September 1971. A gang tunnelled 40 feet (12 m) from a rented shop two doors away to come up through the floor of the vault.

  3. The Bank Job - Wikipedia

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    The film is in part based on historical facts about the Baker Street robbery. A gang tunnelled into a branch of Lloyds Bank at the junction of Baker Street and Marylebone Road in London on the night of 11 September 1971 and robbed the safety deposit boxes that were stored in the vault.

  4. The drama and farce of the Baker Street bank heist - AOL

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    In 1971, a group broke into a bank vault - but the plan was nearly brought down by a radio ham. The drama and farce of the Baker Street bank heist Skip to main content

  5. List of heists in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Barclays Bank robbery, Ilford Ilford, London £0.237 million (£237,000) [40] £4.6 million 1971 Baker Street robbery: Baker Street, London £3 million [41] £53.6 million 1972 Barclays Bank robbery, Wembley Wembley, London £0.138 million (£138,000) [40] £2.3 million 1975 Bank of America robbery, Mayfair Mayfair, London £8 million [42]

  6. Brian Reader (criminal) - Wikipedia

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    Having only left hospital a few weeks earlier, [18] in September 1971, over two weekends, Reader took part in another robbery. The target was another bank: this time, the Baker Street branch of Lloyds Bank. [10] It was Reader's biggest job yet, [18] and for the first time he appears to have led the gang himself. Reader brought in an old friend ...

  7. Wikipedia : Today's featured article/September 11, 2023

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    The Baker Street robbery was the burglary of safe deposit boxes at the Baker Street branch of Lloyds Bank in London, England, on the night of 11 September 1971. A gang tunnelled 40 feet (12 m) from a rented shop two doors away to come up through the floor of the vault (diagram shown).

  8. Michael X - Wikipedia

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    Michael X is a character in The Bank Job (2008), a dramatisation of a real-life bank robbery in 1971. The film claims that Michael X was in possession of indecent photographs of Princess Margaret and used them to avoid criminal prosecution by threatening to publish them; according to the movie plot, X killed Gale Benson because she was a ...

  9. Alec Eist - Wikipedia

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    In 1971, Eist headed one of the four teams investigating the Baker Street robbery, in which a gang tunnelled from a West End restaurant in the vault of a Lloyds Bank. A large amount—estimated to be between £150,000 and nearly £4 million [44] [45] (or £2,678,000 to £71,414,000 in 2021)—was stolen, including cash and Tom Foolery. Eist's ...