The Gold

The Gold opens with the events ofNovember 26th 1983, when six armed men broke into the Brink's-Mat security depot near London's Heathrow Airport, and inadvertently stumbled across gold bullion worth 26m. What started as a typical Old Kent Road armed robbery' according to detectives at the time, became a seminal event in British criminal history, remarkable not only for the scale of the theft, at the time the biggest in world history, but for its wider legacy. On 26 November 1983, six armed men break into the Brink's-Mat security depot, stumbling across gold bullion worth £26m.. Watch TV shows online free. Watch The Gold series online.