“What’s so interesting about a wooden box with loads of lead shot in it?” Sam asked as he walked over to another exhibit.
Sam had been full of questions all morning, and Cliff had been more than happy to answer them. Unlike at the Minster, Cliff hadn’t been stumped once.
“Ah, that’s from the 1855 great train robbery.”
“The one with Ronnie Biggs?” Billy asked.
Cliff shook his head. “No, that was a different, and more recent, train robbery.”
“Oh,” Billy said.
“Like I said, it was 1855, and Britain often sent quantities of gold over to Europe to pay for various things. William Pierce and Edward Agar knew this, and over the months and years cooked up a plan to steal some of it.
“The gold was loaded on a train at London Bridge station, taken off at Folkestone and shipped across the chan
