Hannah Howe<p>Tuesday 3 September 1963</p><p>Great Train Robbery. Detectives are doing fingerprint checks on two Burgundy wine bottles served at a pub party. A police spokesman said, “This could be one of our strongest leads. We are making extensive investigations.” The landlord’s wife, Mrs Allard, said, “It was a very odd dinner party. The men sat apart from the women. Every time a waiter approached, the men stopped talking. </p><p><a href="https://toot.wales/tags/SocialHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SocialHistory</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/1960s" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>1960s</span></a></p>
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Tuesday 27 August 1963
Cricket: the West Indies won the Fifth Test at the Oval by eight wickets, and the series 3 - 1. However, mere statistics do not convey the brilliance of the West Indies play and the joy of their spectators. Was this the greatest series of all time? Possibly. We should all give thanks to the West Indies and their supporters for making this a summer to remember.
Monday 26 August 1963
Detectives believe that the mail train robbers have sent their share of the loot to hideaways outside London by train. The detectives are looking for large packing cases bought in the past ten days. They are also looking for Roy John James - The Weasel, Bruce Reynolds and James White.
Sunday 25 August 1963
An underworld squealer has informed Scotland Yard detectives that £1,000,000 of stolen train loot is hidden away in one fantastic hoard. The robbers only expected to steal a million, not £2,600,000, and the squealer said the gang fell out after the share-out. Members of the gang, who wanted a bigger share of the money, are threatening to shop the leaders.
WALES RISING! Up in the hills of Yorkshire and Wales, rebellion stirs. The desperation that led to the Luddite rebellion mybook.to/BreakItDown the Merthyr rising mybook.to/GiveUsThisDay and mybook.to/LetUsPass the Rebecca Riots #protest #socialhistory #Welshhistory
Saturday 24 August 1963
Scotland Yard detectives are on the lookout for a racing driver - Roy John James, aka The Weasel. Detectives believe that Weasel James can help them with their inquiries into the Great Train Robbery. Meanwhile, Yard men raided 61 houses, warehouses and factories in London. They are also looking for a blonde woman, her baby and her poodle, Gigi.
Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of #BBC cutting access to written #archives #research #socialhistory #history #socialsciences
https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/historians-dismayed-scandal-bbc-cutting-access-written-archives
The Observer · Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to written archives
Exiled for murder! Discover what it was like to be transported to #Australia in a convict ship and to what depths a woman will sink to be with the man she loves. mybook.to/FTCGtrilogy 'Amazing trilogy' #historicalfiction #socialhistory
Friday 23 August 1963
Just before midnight last night dozens of teams of detectives in London and the Home Counties were given special stand-by orders. They were told: move in on all train robbery suspects. Police are also looking for a young woman named Sheree who has a six-month-old baby and a poodle called Gigi. The woman was recently seen in Dunfermline, Fife.
Thursday 22 August 1963
Another £30,000 of the stolen train loot turned up yesterday. The money - in fivers - was found hidden in the panelling of an empty caravan in Box Hill, Surrey. The caravan site’s owner reported that a woman was with the man who bought the caravan. She had a six-month-old baby girl and a poodle.
Whodunnit?
Episode Four, Series One - Did He Fall or Was He Pushed?
First aired 16 July 1973
Host: Edward Woodward
Panelists: Peter Byrne, Moira Lister, Kingsley Amis, Russell Hunter