London crime walk: bankjobs and blowjobs Posted at 9:15 am, June 24, 2012 in Fun London From Oxford Circus to Shepherd Market, the great city crime walk promises to give you a taste of the seedier history of the West End this weekend. This walk takes the Eastcastle Street hold-up as its starting point, then heads down through Mayfair, where money, crime and sleaze have always been bedfellows. Just north-east of Oxford Circus, Eastcastle Street is now full of art galleries, but in 1952 it was a quiet backstreet of offices and warehouses. At 4am on May 21, a Post Office van was held up there and robbed of £287,000, equivalent to more than £6 million today. Prime Minister Winston Churchill put 1,000 police officers on the case, but no money was ever recovered. The raid was planned by Billy Hill, who ran various rackets in the West End, and it w...
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