Braybrook Street

Braybrook Street is a residential street in Shepherd's Bush, London. It runs along the west side of Wormwood Scrubs and the prison of the same name, and is close to East Acton Underground station.

The street was named after a Bishop of London, Robert Braybrooke. Other Bishops of London who gave their names to nearby streets were Mellitus, Earconwald, Osmund, Wulfstan, Gilbert Foliot, Richard FitzNeal, John Stokesley and Humphrey Henchman.

The street is notable as the location of the Massacre of Braybrook Street where three police officers were murdered by Harry Roberts and John Duddy in August 1966.[1]

References

  1. ^ Hamilton, Alan (30 July 2003). "No place to hide for police-killer who stunned the nation". The Times. No. 67828. p. 4. ISSN 0140-0460. The date was August 12 , 1966. In Braybrook Street, Shepherds Bush, a West London residential district in the shadow of Wormwood Scrubs prison, a group of children played in the warm afternoon sunshine. They were about to witness what an Old Bailey judge subsequently described as "the most heinous crime for a generation or more". Harry Roberts, Jack Witney and John Duddy were in a stolen, pale-blue Standard Vanguard on their way to commit an armed robbery when their car was approached by an unmarked Triumph 2000 police patrol car.

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