Far Cough 2:01 Thu Aug 5
The Great Train Robbery
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Almost sixty years this month.
Most got 30 years which even for the time seemed to be too severe, yes, Jack Mills the train driver got coshed but Bruce Reynolds insisted that it shouldn't have happened.
What are your recollections of the event?
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Far Cough
12:22 Fri Aug 6
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Jack Mills the train driver got coshed but Bruce Reynolds insisted that it shouldn't have happened.
But it did.
Violent criminals, who got what they deserved.
Yeah thanks for that DS Butler
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Manuel
6:44 Fri Aug 6
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Cough - Phil Collins supports Jimmy Greaves financially. Was his hero.
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chevy chase
6:36 Fri Aug 6
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My dad nearly had a fight with Phil Collins. He accidentally wondered onto one of Phil’s music videos in a street and they squared up. Also dad going round Vidal Sassoon’s first hairdressers in stepney with my uncles as he owed one of them money for sweeping up hair.
He never tells me this first hand. It’s always from someone else but when I pull him up he just shrugs and says yeah.
When my mum n dad had there 50th he said even the great train robbers never got that much.
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Dandy Lyon
5:28 Fri Aug 6
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Wrong
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Pentonville
12:41 Fri Aug 6
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Fact is they were cunts.
Don't believe the hype Kenneth Noye is an old bullying cunt.
Rude. I'm aware Noye is Brinx m and not accapulco but still massive one.
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Westside
12:36 Fri Aug 6
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Jack Mills the train driver got coshed but Bruce Reynolds insisted that it shouldn't have happened.
But it did.
Violent criminals, who got what they deserved.
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violator
4:41 Thu Aug 5
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Surf, I don't think so *looks at back of hand, and down shorts*...nah he was definitely a honky
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gph
4:24 Thu Aug 5
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*looks for white fivers under floorboards*
Forgot to do this when I moved in. Thanks for the reminder.
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charleyfarley
4:22 Thu Aug 5
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The Sun tried to kidnap Biggs and bring him back to UK as there was no extradition treaty with Brazil
Ginger Marks was supposed to clean up the hide out at Leatherslade Farm, allegedly now propping up a flyover on the A13
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Sven Roeder
4:17 Thu Aug 5
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Phil Collins is a Spurs fan so has been acting the CUNT all his life
Why should THAT change?
Wasnt Buster Whatsit the one who had a flower stall outside Waterloo station?
Must have been nice for all the rail staff who walked past every day wondering if they were going to get COSHED.
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
4:11 Thu Aug 5
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Violater
'My old man bought a car that was previously owned by one of the gang, apparently he was always getting stopped by the old bill'
Was he, erm... you know?
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mallard
4:08 Thu Aug 5
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Collins would have got a bit more respect had he not attempted to shoehorn an awful soundtrack into the movie
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Far Cough
4:03 Thu Aug 5
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Oh come on, Phil Collins is playing Buster Edwards a career criminal ,he's not Laurence Olivier playing Henry V
Not bad acting for his first time at a leading role
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The Stoat
3:54 Thu Aug 5
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I was stood with my Dad behind the goal at Orient when they shot this scene, just a few yards away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xkpg1sIq8G4
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arsene york-hunt
3:11 Thu Aug 5
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It was a silent western wasn't circa 1903
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Eastside surge
3:07 Thu Aug 5
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Ronnie biggs was portrayed as a bit of a master criminal because he managed to escape to Brazil but he was only involved with it in the first place because he knew someone who could drive a train!
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violator
3:04 Thu Aug 5
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My old man bought a car that was previously owned by one of the gang, apparently he was always getting stopped by the old bill
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Peckham
2:51 Thu Aug 5
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Mr Kenzo 2:04 Thu Aug 5
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Phil Collins being a woeful actor in Buster
Terrible terrible acting actually made Buster seem a proper miserable snappy drunk cunt the whole film. Bad acting, bad writing.
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Peckham
2:49 Thu Aug 5
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I am loosely related to Thomas Wisbey one of the train robbers. His daughter Marilyn took me on summer holidays as a child for many years. Also new Buster very well with my family also having a flower stall just over the bridge from his.
But in all fairness, an innocent man died and they all got caught. In my opinion it was far from a great robbery.
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ray winstone
2:46 Thu Aug 5
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Going loco....
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chim chim cha boo
2:41 Thu Aug 5
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Bruce Reynolds is buried in Highgate cemetery and his son who's an artist made a death mask of his dad for his headstone.
It's really, really great to the point where he's been commissioned to do more in the West cemetery including Malcolm McLaren's.
As a morbid fucker I do love a death mask.
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