07/04/11…Memories of the Great Train Robbery net funds for Thame Charities

THE audience at last Friday’s evening looking back at the most famous crime of the 20th century, was thoroughly entertained and enthralled by the reminiscences of the policeman who discovered the robbers’ hideout.

Now retired, the Speaker, ex PC John Woolley, was stationed at Brill at the time of the Great Train Robbery in 1963. He dramatically recalled how he climbed into a partially opened window of a deserted farmhouse and discovered loo rolls, cans of drinks, cutlery and food, mattreses and bedding – all yielding vital clues that lead to the conviction and imprisonment of the gang responsible.

Using artefacts and memorabilia, including the actual balaclava used by one of the gang that held up the train carrying