The Eastcastle Street robbery was the holdup of a Post Office van in London in May 1952 which, at the time, was Britain's largest postwar robbery. The...

Castle Street and continued as Great Castle Street beyond Oxford Market square (now Market Place). It was the site of the Eastcastle Street robbery. Eastcastle...

underworld in the 1950s and 1960s. He took part in the 1952 Eastcastle Street mailbag robbery in which £287,000 (equivalent to £10.4 million in 2024) was...

bank robberies, bank robbers and gangs involved in bank robberies. Johann Kastenberger Agricultural Bank of China robbery The first bank robbery in Denmark...

directly responsible. Likewise, no-one responsible for the 1952 Eastcastle Street robbery was ever apprehended, although gangster Billy Hill confessed he...

Billy Hill. He was part of Hill's gang that carried out the 1952 Eastcastle Street robbery on a Post Office van. In 1957 he began a 30-year association with...

security in the transport of money. One major example was the Eastcastle Street robbery in 1952, involving the theft of £287,000 from a post office van...

Postmaster General, and as such, was in charge at the time of the Eastcastle Street robbery, before leaving office for the final time in 1955.[citation needed]...

Robledo, the first foreigner to score in an FA Cup final. 21 May – Eastcastle Street robbery: a post office van is held up in the West End of London and £287...

Europe's largest unsupported roof span at this date. 21 May: The Eastcastle Street robbery takes place, in which a post office van is held up in the West...

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