George Barron Black

Age: 52

Sex: male

Date: 7 Jan 1949

Place: Lloyds bank, Wells Road, Knowle, Bristol

George Barron Black was killed in a bank robbery at a sub-branch of the Lloyds Bank on Wells Road in Knowle, Bristol.

He had struggled with the murderer and was shot twice.

*map pointers are rough estimates based on known location details as per Place field above.

see National Archives - MEPO 3/3122

see "Bank Murder Inquiry Reopened." Times [London, England] 6 Nov. 1957: 6. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 28 May 2016.

see Liverpool Echo - Thursday 15 September 1949

see Daily Herald - Thursday 13 January 1949

see Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail - Monday 10 January 1949

see Coventry Evening Telegraph - Thursday 10 March 1949

see Yorkshire Evening Post - Saturday 08 January 1949

see Portsmouth Evening News - Friday 28 January 1949

see Aberdeen Press and Journal - Thursday 13 January 1949

see Gloucester Citizen - Tuesday 11 January 1949

see Belfast Telegraph - Wednesday 12 January 1949

see Gloucester Citizen - Thursday 10 March 1949

see Belfast Telegraph - Friday 28 January 1949

see Belfast Telegraph - Monday 10 January 1949

see Western Daily Press - Tuesday 28 June 1949

see Coventry Evening Telegraph - Thursday 13 January 1949

see Unsolved 1949