The Great Train Robbery took place in In August 1963, sixteen men pulled off one of the most daring crimes in British History. They hijacked and robbed ?2.6 million from a Royal Mail train in an extraordinary feat of meticulous planning. Death at the 'Blind Beggar' follows the crime that shot the Kray Twins to notoriety and led to the eventual downfall of their gang. The Blind Beggar, a pub in the heart of London's East End was the setting for the point blank killing of rival gangster George Cornell.