Lloyds Bank au coin de Baker Street et Marylebone Road, Londres. La voûte de la banque qui détient des coffres-forts a été brisée dans la nuit du 11 septembre 1971.le gang avait loué une boutique de cuir appelée le sac, à deux portes au nord de la banque, Et a tunnellisé une distance d'environ 50 pieds passant sous le restaurant intermédiaire Chicken Inn pour atteindre la voûte. Pour éviter d'être entendu, ils ont seulement creusé pendant les week-ends. Les voleurs avaient d'abord utilisé une lance thermique pour tenter de pénétrer dans la voûte, mais ont finalement dû utiliser des explosifs. Les voleurs se sont mis à l'écart avec ¿1,5 millions de livres de

• Contributeur: Trinity Mirror / Mirrorpix / Alamy Banque D'Images
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• Dimensions: 3936 x 5787 px | 33,3 x 49 cm | 13,1 x 19,3 inches | 300dpi
• Date de la prise de vue: 13 septembre 1971
• Photographe: Mirrorpix

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Lloyds Bank on the corner of Baker Street and Marylebone Road, London. The vault of the bank holding safe deposit boxes was broken into on the night of 11 September 1971.The gang had rented a leather goods shop named Le Sac, two doors north from the bank, and tunnelled a distance of approximately 50 feet passing under the intervening Chicken Inn restaurant to reach the vault. To avoid being overheard, they only dug during weekends. The robbers had initially used a thermal lance to try to break into the vault but ultimately had to use explosives. The robbers got away with ¿1.5 million pounds of cash plus the valuables from 260 safe deposit boxes, The estimated value of the entire haul being ¿3 million pounds making it the biggest bank robbery in Britain at the time. Robert Rowlands, a radio ham operator, overheard conversations between the robbers and their rooftop lookout at about 11 pm on the night of 11th September. He contacted police and tape recorded the conversations while the robbery was in progress, but there was insufficient information to identify which bank was being robbed. It became known as the ¿kie-talkie bank job¿ecause of this tip-off from a member of the public. After three days of headline news, the Government of the day allegedly issued a D-Notice, forbidding the Press to report on the heist as a matter of national security. Since then there has been speculation that sexually compromising photos of a senior royal were taken from one of the safe deposit boxes held in the vault, and it was covered-up by MI5. Our Picture Shows: Mr Guy Darke who returned to work from a holiday to find his bank vault in a shambles. 13th September 1971

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