the krays

[hammerntongues]

I got pissed in the Blind Beggar last night. they sell Strongbow Extra Cold

That was called Babycham last time the boys looked in .

 

[Streathamite]

The Krays? They was gennelmun, they wuz.
<wipes tear from eye>

 

[isvicthere?]

We'll nevvah see their like again...

 

[Donna Ferentes]

A friend of mine from Essex claims her mother, who lived in Bethnal Green in the Sixties, used to hear them (and their gang) quarrelling about who controlled what in the various pubs on their manor. Allegedly, she once said to somebody else:

"Oh, I don't know, why can't they just share it?"

 

[Tays]

The most famous of the Lithuanian jewish English icons

 

[maldwyn]

I got pissed in the Blind Beggar last night. they sell Strongbow Extra Cold

Given the number of people who claim to have been there that fateful night the place must be a fecking Tardis

 

[detective-boy]

Any one over the age of 60 and under 70 who lived within 2 miles of
Bethnal Green between 1950 and 1960 will claim that their sister,aunt,cousin etc went out with or ran with The Krays.

My brother-in-law's dad paid them protection money ...

He's probably NOT bull-shitting actually ... he had a pub in Whitechapel!

 

[Louloubelle]

My mum's uncle (now dead) was a black cab driver who used to run some kind of money laundering op for the Richardsons.

I really liked him a a kid as he was really nice to us and he lived in a massive detatched house in essex with a huge garden and its own mini bar with cocktail shakers and mirrors on the wall and stuff.

I was impressed by how much money he made as a black cab driver and only found out what his connections were many years later after he'd moved to Portrugal along with all his grown up kids. They all bought night clubs out there and ended up having some kind of feud with each other, each one accusing the other of taking their money.

edited

too much information

 

[paolo]

Mad Frankie Fraser at Waterloo Library, May 2005.

 

[siarc]

i like this thread

 

[William of Walworth]

I got pissed in the Blind Beggar last night. they sell Strongbow Extra Cold

You mean they sell pretend, imitation, chemical-infused 'cider' with whatever flavour (of chemical) that there ever was, frozen right out of it??

 

[Groucho]

Seen him on the bus. Used to know his neice.

 

[Stobart Stopper]

Any one over the age of 60 and under 70 who lived within 2 miles of
Bethnal Green between 1950 and 1960 will claim that their sister,aunt,cousin etc went out with or ran with The Krays.

The truth is, The Firm, as the Krays called their gang, was nowhere near as big in number as people think. My dad used to say it was probably no more than 40.
The media have for years tried to blow it all out of proportion.
Yes, they were violent, and so were alot of their henchmen, but if a full scale gang war had broken out one night between the Krays and the Richardson gang, the latter would have won it hands down. They were the REAL hard nuts.

 

[miss giggles]

Ah, but they were sarf London! Anyway, they couldn't have loved their mum as much as them Kray boys did.

<wipes away tear>