About Baker Street robbery
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. The value of the property stolen is unknown, but is likely to have been between £1.25 million and £3 million; only £231,000 was recovered by the police. The burglary was planned by Anthony Gavin, a career criminal, who was inspired by "The Red-Headed League", a Sherlock Holmes short story in which criminals tunnel into a bank vault from the cellar of a nearby shop. Gavin and his colleagues rented Le Sac, a leather goods shop two doors from the bank, and tunnelled during weekends.
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- Baker Street tube station
- Statue of Sherlock Holmes, London
- Dorset House, Marylebone
- Chiltern Court
- 221B Baker Street
- Sherlock Holmes Museum
- Clarence Gate Gardens
- Madame Tussauds
- Marylebone Town Hall
- Metropolitan Borough of St Marylebone
- Westminster Business School
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- Cornwall Terrace
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