I think we should all note the passing of Slipper of the yard. The policeman that headed the Great Train Robbery Investigation, and incidently gave Stanley Baker one of his best actor roles in one of the best stories.

Before many of you were born I dare say, but it was a big deal at the time and made folk heroes out of many of the participants. Names that have been accepted into folk law. But it should not be forgotten that Jack Mills, the driver, was hit on the head, never worked again and died from the injury five years later.

I lived very close to the incident, Linslade/Leyton Buzzard so got much information from local pub etc. It appears much of the money was shipped down the Thames on a barge and loaded onto a yatch out at sea. Or was it, perhaps we will never know.

Anyways, farewell to Jack Slipper of the Yard, aged 82 years old.