A Train Robber's Lair

In search of Old Torquay- Bruce Reynolds

I park on this road at least twice a week. At the top somewhere overlooking the harbour is a 1930s modernist villa with palm trees - that would not look out of place on the Côte d'Azur. You can't really see it from the road. The house, called Cap Martin, after the headland on the south coast of France, was rented by Bruce Reynolds, the great train robber. Sid James had rented before him. Reynolds was arrested here on 9 November 1968. He was such a pillar of society he had even joined the library.

According to Torquay folklore, it was the £5 notes Reynolds was using to pay the milkman that first aroused suspicion, and prompted the police to track him down.
Blimey, better watch out.