In 1963 Oakley was centre of national and international news , when Leatherslade Farm , near Oakley , was used as a hideout by the criminal gang involved in the Great Train Robbery . John Maris , a local farm worker , alerted police to the hideout at the farm . John Wooley , a local policeman from Brill , was the first officer to go to the hideout
Great Train Robbery
Great Train Robbery (1963)
Oakley, Buckinghamshire