1967 Press Photo Barry Wreland Duke Duchess Bedford Stolen Antique Jewellery

$15,000 - worth of antique jewellery stolen by raiders from a van on its way to Woburn Abbey. Antique Jewellery worth $ 15,000 was stolen today by masked raiders who ambushed the van carrying it from London to Woburn Abbey, the home of the Duke and Duchess of Bedford. The Jewellery was on its way from the Duke's family jewellers in the West End to an antique fair, staged by the Duchess, at Woburn Abbey Photo shows: Barry Wreland, director of Cellingwood's, the Duke's Jewellers, who was in the estate car when it was attacked by the raiders (seen right) is seen telling the story of the attack to the Duke and Duchess of Bedford at Woburn Abbey today.

Photo measures 10.25 x 8 inches.

Photo is dated 9-21-1967.

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