The Bank Job, directed by Roger Donaldson and starring Jason Statham, explores the real-life Lloyds bank robbery of 1971 ...

The Baker Street Robbery, in which a determined gang tunnel into the supposedly impregnable vault of Lloyds Bank on the night of September 11, 1971, was a case of life imitating art.

The Baker Street robbery was a cause célèbre at the time and it was said the gang left a cheeky message on the bank vault walls: “Let’s see how Sherlock Holmes solves this one”.

Before even that, in December 1970, an apparently well-to-do man opened an account at the Baker Street branch of Lloyds and put £500 (about £6,000 today) into it. Later, he rented a safety ...

It was the biggest robbery ever carried out in the Metropolitan Police district, with 120 detectives working on the case. "We are getting information about who are the real brains behind this gang ...