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  • Опубліковано 9 бер 2018
  • This film tells the definitive story of Britain’s most notorious criminals who, in just ten years, acquired a chilling aura of fear through extreme violence, unparalleled in Britain’s underworld. Their legend continues to be popular years on, as the preview shown below has more than 40,000 views on UA-cam! Theirs is a tale of ruthless criminals who led a glamorous existence; they ran rackets, owned bars and casinos and mixed with celebrities. They were at their height of their criminal empire during the sixties; a post war hedonistic mix when style, power, sex, money and class all collided. Despite being glamorised by some, this documentary reveals the truth about the Kray’s, showing them as crude thugs with a streak of depression and madness, surviving only on a profession of violence, extortion and small time criminal activities.
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  • @TimelineChannel
    @TimelineChannel  3 роки тому +124

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  • @momopeep7821
    @momopeep7821 3 роки тому +177

    The way Ronnie switched with Reggie at the mental hospital LOL i cant-

    • @elliottjohnson3713
      @elliottjohnson3713 3 роки тому +16

      Well, being identical twins in this was the case, then investigation should have notice this.

    • @AwesometownUSA
      @AwesometownUSA 2 роки тому +4

      lol , I bet they also pulled that switch while in the middle of illegally banging out hot dudes
      “oy bruv oy’ve gotta run to the lou for more me lube, yeah? brb”

    • @neptunes3279
      @neptunes3279 2 роки тому +9

      @momo peep I was one of the last batch of student nurses to train at Long Grove hospital where this happened. We
      where told this story during one of our lectures. Apparently the Kray's gifted the Dr. a very nice watch and for years afterwards received a Christmas card from the Kray family.

    • @maggie9508
      @maggie9508 2 роки тому

      😂

  • @sambakka540
    @sambakka540 3 роки тому +1114

    “The Kray twins are the reason the Italian mafia never came to the UK”
    - Jeremy Clarkson

    • @callyemby4587
      @callyemby4587 3 роки тому +63

      It's The American Mafia.

    • @jamiejosh96
      @jamiejosh96 3 роки тому +9

      Cally Emby same thing

    • @or529
      @or529 3 роки тому +57

      @@jamiejosh96 no its not.

    • @raichu2649
      @raichu2649 3 роки тому +1

      Is it true???

    • @sambakka540
      @sambakka540 3 роки тому +21

      @@raichu2649 I doubt it

  • @JamesLaserpimpWalsh
    @JamesLaserpimpWalsh 2 роки тому +108

    I worked in the East End for a while. It has come as a shock that only 32 people were in the Blind Beggar that night, because half of the East End seemed to have been in there from the anecdotes I heard. "Oh my mate's uncle" or "My sister in law's half brother's step sister's dog" were in there that night. heh. Cheers for the upload.

    • @michaelharrison3602
      @michaelharrison3602 2 роки тому +12

      James of course half the people oin the east end knows someone who was in the beggars. Half the people in the east end used to drive the krays around. The other half went to school with then

    • @mikeholland1031
      @mikeholland1031 2 роки тому +11

      Same as 10 million ppl claiming to have been at Woodstock. Lol

    • @sonnytopboy4975
      @sonnytopboy4975 2 роки тому +2

      @@mikeholland1031 I went to the Woodstock2 rave on Billy blundles land, but i don't think you're on about that . 😂

    • @mikeholland1031
      @mikeholland1031 2 роки тому +2

      @@sonnytopboy4975 no. I was talking about the real one

    • @Raewoo333
      @Raewoo333 2 роки тому +2

      Not saying they aren't just claiming BS, but when you take into account how many family members (married or blood), friends, acquaintances, people have you worked with or dated in your own life. Not to mention how many each of those people have people in those categories and multiply it by 32. That easily is believable especially the further down the line the claim becomes. Crazier things have happened

  • @jamessmithjr6788
    @jamessmithjr6788 4 роки тому +1296

    "A paranoid schizophrenic walks into a bar."

  • @alisonstacy2025
    @alisonstacy2025 4 роки тому +1660

    Legend was amazing Tom Hardy was so good in the part

    • @kristarolleri6442
      @kristarolleri6442 4 роки тому +27

      Alison Stacy part(s) ;)

    • @escarsegat
      @escarsegat 4 роки тому +15

      sad thing they never mentioned mike tyson

    • @AlmostReady504
      @AlmostReady504 4 роки тому +41

      And critics hated it so I never saw it.
      Tom Hardy is perfect as Alfie Solomon in The Peaky Blinders

    • @sonnyblack6121
      @sonnyblack6121 4 роки тому +13

      Didn't Think it was that good, Can't put my finger on why either 🤷🤷🤷

    • @shootboxpodcast
      @shootboxpodcast 4 роки тому +12

      @RESPECT MY AUTHORITY Reggie and Mike exchanged letters while they were in prison. Nothing, really.

  • @Conspiracy515
    @Conspiracy515 4 роки тому +1683

    I CAME FOR A SHOOTOUT, A PROPER SHOOTOUT 🤣🤣

  • @lancedeboyle
    @lancedeboyle 4 роки тому +569

    "I understand he also nailed your wife's head to a coffee table"
    "He did do that , yeah. He was a cruel man, but fair".

    • @lancedeboyle
      @lancedeboyle 4 роки тому +20

      @John Gilmore Even Dinsdale was scared of Doug. He used... Sarcasm!

    • @stevebowness9435
      @stevebowness9435 3 роки тому +4

      AWESOME 🤣🤣😂😂😂

    • @stevebowness9435
      @stevebowness9435 3 роки тому +2

      Don't Start 🤣🤣😂😂🤪

    • @abdihassan7208
      @abdihassan7208 3 роки тому +1

      timestamp?

    • @giantred
      @giantred 3 роки тому +12

      @@abdihassan7208 Monty Python "The Piranha Brothers"

  • @stephenryan7698
    @stephenryan7698 3 роки тому +335

    I have met so many people who went to school with the Krays it is estimated that 300,000 went to their school, no wonder they went off the rails.

    • @stephenreeds3672
      @stephenreeds3672 3 роки тому +14

      One of their teachers called them "the salt of the earth".

    • @inbloommusic
      @inbloommusic 2 роки тому +3

      Brilliant 😂

    • @jamesreynolds2867
      @jamesreynolds2867 2 роки тому +2

      @Slap-moore Cheeks But low intellect.

    • @dannyhmmcup
      @dannyhmmcup 2 роки тому +9

      His parents sued for brain damage
      ....yeah judge awarded them £7.50

    • @philfyphil
      @philfyphil 2 роки тому +1

      LOL

  • @Victory987
    @Victory987 5 років тому +395

    Gangsters are immortalised infamously, 'no different to any politician.
    *Power is Scandal*

    • @TheTibmeister
      @TheTibmeister 4 роки тому +6

      LA Thinker. I’ve often wondered why Cliff Richard has flown under the radar for so long and have always assumed that it’s because of his ‘close’ relationship with the Royal Family as was Noel Coward before him. But i dont think there’s any evidence that Noel was interested in little boys. He lived in Jamaica (and died there) with two former chorus boys for well over forty years. But the age gap wasnt much younger than twenty odd years. He also left his entire estate to them except for some money he left to finish the building and restoration to a large church in Teddington in West London where i grew up. The church was never refurbished and i often wondered where that money went.

    • @AlexanderJoneshttps
      @AlexanderJoneshttps 4 роки тому +2

      Churchil was a war criminal and a racist the shoe fits

    • @gwpeatz6263
      @gwpeatz6263 3 роки тому +6

      There is HUGE difference between gangster and politicians bro, they both rubbed elbows but nevertheless two different lifestyles

    • @Flatdays502
      @Flatdays502 3 роки тому +2

      Alexander Jones not to be against you but please tell me how

    • @stevechristie2569
      @stevechristie2569 3 роки тому +1

      @Nigel Kent the cops hate Noye he murdered one.

  • @43jaygee
    @43jaygee 5 років тому +74

    Just found this on UA-cam and it is brilliant. The people who are telling the story from the police viewpoint or that of Norman Lucas, Albert Donaghue and other boyos is simply fantastic. Well done.

    • @hoss-lk4bg
      @hoss-lk4bg 2 роки тому +2

      ok

    • @billsamuls7620
      @billsamuls7620 Рік тому

      i grew up in the fiftys i lived around the corner to the nashes i knew roy and george i had a good freind who wanted me to join him to get friends with the krays he joined them i didnt i could tell you a lot about that time they only wanted money from the rich club and bar owners and beat up the ones who crossed them

  • @DenzelLN936
    @DenzelLN936 3 роки тому +80

    There’s a big gap about 2/3rds through where I reckon you could fit two more adverts

    • @chiricahuaapache5132
      @chiricahuaapache5132 2 роки тому +5

      If you're on android, swipe the red timeline dot across the screen from left to right, then press replay. You'll never have to watch an ad again.

    • @doubletapm4
      @doubletapm4 2 роки тому +3

      hahahahahahaha this made me legit laugh out loud!!!!!

    • @kinny2098
      @kinny2098 2 роки тому

      Hail UA-cam prime 😆 🤣 😂

    • @kinny2098
      @kinny2098 2 роки тому +1

      @@chiricahuaapache5132 that's a good one that, I'd forgotten about that one

  • @doubletapm4
    @doubletapm4 2 роки тому +25

    I could listen to these old school British gangsters tell stories all day!!!!

  • @terencemeikle534
    @terencemeikle534 Рік тому +7

    One helluva story. A fantastic line-up of interviewees. Top notch editing. Super stuff. 👌

  • @Thenorthsace
    @Thenorthsace 6 років тому +1127

    If i had a pound for everytime someone cockney says "yeah they were my uncles, brothers, third cousin twice removed" i'd be rich.

    • @itzFirthyy
      @itzFirthyy 5 років тому +30

      You've earn a pound their

    • @JohnKobaRuddy
      @JohnKobaRuddy 5 років тому +26

      helder skelter same as in Newcastle Very few people had heard of paddy Conroy but when he ended up on tv everyone within the Tyne and Wear Region claimed to know work for or be related to him. All of it made up

    • @geoffedwards-tb4kp
      @geoffedwards-tb4kp 5 років тому +7

      Funnily enough...

    • @christianmorson3945
      @christianmorson3945 5 років тому +15

      If had just a penny for everytime I'd heard that......I've have about 23 pence

    • @geoffedwards-tb4kp
      @geoffedwards-tb4kp 5 років тому +1

      @@christianmorson3945 never been a full shilling have you.

  • @MrMarkrobertson
    @MrMarkrobertson 3 роки тому +67

    They need to make a movie about Charlie's hair do. That comb over is epic.

    • @OVERLORDD101
      @OVERLORDD101 2 роки тому +3

      That’s a wig son all day like a box of wire wool with a pulse 🤣

    • @russcooke5671
      @russcooke5671 2 роки тому +2

      He’s got two different hairstyles I wonder if the barber charged him twice the price 👌👌👌

    • @gregod806
      @gregod806 2 роки тому

      @@russcooke5671 Nah, the barber had to pay the Twins 🤣

  • @billbrasky7540
    @billbrasky7540 Рік тому +57

    With Ronnie, this is one of the few instances (in my opinion) where the actor portraying him _actually_ looks like the real deal. The nose, the eyes, the brow, the fleshy lips, the chin, even the hairline... It's uncanny, the resemblance.

    • @MrSimon1909
      @MrSimon1909 Рік тому +2

      not really, they should have gotten michael jackson or christopher reeve to play the roles

    • @billbrasky7540
      @billbrasky7540 Рік тому +2

      @@MrSimon1909 *and Christopher Reeves won't sit for this NEITHER*
      Eee HEEEE!

    • @youngsandwich2792
      @youngsandwich2792 Рік тому +1

      No they “feature” wise looked similar hardy merely looks more handsome/sharp/ clean

    • @FreddieShreddieTV
      @FreddieShreddieTV Рік тому

      @@MrSimon1909 chuckle brothers

  • @mehmetguner5729
    @mehmetguner5729 4 роки тому +237

    “To be honest... I don’t think he knew where to put it while he was married” 😂😂😂 had me in stitches mate 😂😂😂

    • @bluelagoon4474
      @bluelagoon4474 4 роки тому

      Haha if reggie was sat at side of him he'd of got a clip round ear ffs 👂👋😂😂

    • @b1gmustang567
      @b1gmustang567 3 роки тому +27

      He knew where to put it but that's not where she wanted it.

    • @gloriasymes4290
      @gloriasymes4290 3 роки тому +2

      Put what, Im confused?

    • @worganfreeman2694
      @worganfreeman2694 3 роки тому +3

      Spit out my drink at that! Love that line!

    • @richyearle007
      @richyearle007 3 роки тому +12

      @Ricky Bowen Back in those days hairy beavers were the rage,even up into the eighties when i had my first woman.
      Anyway,some chicks were particularly hairy.I guess you could liken some, to putting the bottom part of a bikini over a toupee.Most young blokes back then had combs in their back pockets?It wasn't for combing their hair...;)

  • @1taxsettlement
    @1taxsettlement 4 роки тому +84

    boy, Maureen Flanagan aged gracefully compared to those geezers!

    • @kylerobinson8636
      @kylerobinson8636 2 роки тому

      You should see her now

    • @johnniethepom2905
      @johnniethepom2905 2 роки тому

      @@kylerobinson8636 well she must be about 75 years old by now . I bet she is still a Lady .

  • @williamkz
    @williamkz 2 роки тому +3

    Brilliant video. Superbly professional. Fascinating accounts from eye witnesses.

  • @doonewatts7155
    @doonewatts7155 Рік тому +16

    Without a doubt the best documentary on the Krays! I have been intrigued by them since the 80's so I have watched a lot of films etc. Objective, balanced, informed and even taught me a thing or two

    • @DavidThomas-pn2oj
      @DavidThomas-pn2oj Рік тому

      they certainly knew how to rule Pity they didnt go on alot longer Yes its a good documentary

    • @manda.watching.YouTube
      @manda.watching.YouTube Рік тому

      Check out the one on the UA-cam channel Biography. I thought it was better than this one. Had a lot more information.

  • @BricktopsPigs
    @BricktopsPigs 4 роки тому +37

    Norman Lucas the Mirror reporter must have been inspiration for Paul Whitehouse's drunk old buffer-
    "yes there were villians everywhere-but i was very very drunk".

  • @pygiana16
    @pygiana16 5 років тому +12

    Great hairstyle Charlie. Combining the combover and the mullet.

  • @christopherdale5243
    @christopherdale5243 3 роки тому +42

    I Love the honesty of Charlie Kray and their Associates.

    • @bradmacarthur3810
      @bradmacarthur3810 2 роки тому +7

      They already served their time why lie about it.

    • @pipfox7834
      @pipfox7834 Рік тому

      @Christopher Dale if you think that was honesty, don't apply for work as an investigator of any kind... please

  • @MaverickSeventySeven
    @MaverickSeventySeven 2 роки тому +40

    A very well presented documentary, atmospheric and with authentic dialogue!!! Great!

  • @64andyjh
    @64andyjh Рік тому +37

    I grew up in Bethnal Green , in the years after the Krays were incarcerated. Everyone I knew had a Kray story. It was amazing how much they were , and to an extent still are, revered as heroes rather than criminals. They did what they did, but that sentiment of sadness when they were locked up still pervades to this day.

    • @requiem165
      @requiem165 Рік тому

      Fax

    • @Nyx544
      @Nyx544 Рік тому +9

      Tell that to the families of the ppl they killed

    • @64andyjh
      @64andyjh Рік тому +2

      @@Nyx544 I agree, and I should point out that this in no way reflects my own opinion, merely one that is still quite common in the area

    • @topbanana4013
      @topbanana4013 Рік тому

      @@Nyx544 or raped

    • @dominic4051
      @dominic4051 Рік тому +2

      @@Nyx544 the people they killed were all also gangsters. They would of done to them what ronnie and reggie did to them.

  • @leemyers8292
    @leemyers8292 3 роки тому +275

    Every oap cockney in London :-
    “I knew the krays”
    🙄of course you did

    • @CIMAmotor
      @CIMAmotor 3 роки тому +16

      Hahaha yeah, everyone has a Kray story including my Mum.

    • @alundavies8402
      @alundavies8402 3 роки тому +6

      But unlike what people seem to believe they actually did put themselves about a bit so maybe they are telling the truth but stay away from people that were in the blind beggar that fateful night because I know of two people that claimed to have been there and also one of them has reinvented the Hebrew language of old by giving it actual vowels it has none and not in the style of runic script either none whatsoever at all at all.

    • @alundavies8402
      @alundavies8402 3 роки тому +2

      @PavlovsBitch I didn’t actually understand what you said bottom feeders and misrepresentation all of that what do you mean?

    • @alundavies8402
      @alundavies8402 3 роки тому +3

      @PavlovsBitch do you mean that if you know not what people are going on about you are easily fooled or impressed?

    • @JamieR1988
      @JamieR1988 3 роки тому +1

      Probably because they were just that prolific.
      They interacted with literally everything

  • @mikaelhagstrom9381
    @mikaelhagstrom9381 2 роки тому +1

    Great Documentary..👍
    Thank You..For Sharing it..👍

  • @jamesreynolds2867
    @jamesreynolds2867 2 роки тому +46

    At an audition for a part in East Enders, actors are required to say " I knew the twins, they were good boys to their dear old mum, and kept the east end safe from villains".

    • @jackmehoffe9372
      @jackmehoffe9372 2 роки тому +8

      Quite funny that

    • @glen7318
      @glen7318 2 роки тому +1

      @@jackmehoffe9372 And it was safe to walk the streets in them days

    • @jackmehoffe9372
      @jackmehoffe9372 2 роки тому +2

      @@glen7318 not if you're black

    • @glen7318
      @glen7318 2 роки тому +1

      what about the Bill? Cowering wife, behind door "He's not here. I didnt even know 'e was Aht.( that's from Gimme gimme.)

  • @zedata57
    @zedata57 5 років тому +165

    Great documentary. I've always been fascinated by the Kray twins.

    • @virgoqueen3106
      @virgoqueen3106 3 роки тому +7

      Me to

    • @mikeholland1031
      @mikeholland1031 2 роки тому

      @@virgoqueen3106 too

    • @globalwarmhugs7741
      @globalwarmhugs7741 2 роки тому

      I rerere-watched the film a couple of months ago, with my fella who had never even heard of them. He loved it. It's a favourite of mine.

    • @djscoah8037
      @djscoah8037 2 роки тому

      Why?

    • @oceanblue3050
      @oceanblue3050 Рік тому

      It's all myth, they never owned a club, never made any money, never killed anyone....etc it's all lies...they were just petty thieves who were twins who hung out at night clubs.

  • @AnthonyJohnson-qv5nc
    @AnthonyJohnson-qv5nc 5 років тому +80

    And then after sir Cliffs experience with the Krays.......
    He slipped into the shadows :-/

  • @wildmansamurai3663
    @wildmansamurai3663 Рік тому

    Great video. Very informative.

  • @ukgraffitiwalker8846
    @ukgraffitiwalker8846 3 роки тому +23

    Charlie's hairstyle was scarier than Ron.

  • @DJWHEEL1
    @DJWHEEL1 5 років тому +666

    Watch the movie Legend, Tom Hardy is awesome as both the twins!

    • @cheymilion3168
      @cheymilion3168 5 років тому +11

      @John Brighton Nah watch the one with Ahardy tom

    • @traceymckeever3179
      @traceymckeever3179 5 років тому +27

      Watch the original, The Kray's, the Tom Hardy one is good, but the original is a bit better in my opinion

    • @davidfitzgerald4683
      @davidfitzgerald4683 5 років тому +23

      watch the original the kemp brothers thats the best. Im not a fan of legend its too comedic

    • @traceymckeever3179
      @traceymckeever3179 5 років тому +5

      @@davidfitzgerald4683 I agree

    • @standafan4141
      @standafan4141 5 років тому +15

      The one with the Kemps is a legend

  • @kitkat186
    @kitkat186 3 роки тому +58

    My grandmother was a widow in Glasgow during the 40s, she would say we're poor but honest. She had six kids one a baby in her arms when my Grandfather was killed, but she didn't steal.
    Glorifying crime is never good, I see that with the gangs in my country guns and drugs are rife. It's the families who suffer because of the crims!
    Al Capone to garner support from the public dished out a small portion of his ill gotten gains to them! Get real about crims treating their females well, Reggie beat his wife up poor lady, not long after she killed herself.

    • @michaelmiserocchi9050
      @michaelmiserocchi9050 2 роки тому +14

      the way you have that phrase is hilarious it's like he beat her up after she was dead

    • @KD400_
      @KD400_ 2 роки тому

      No one here is glorifying crime but criminals exist because they want power they have existed since the beginning the government r criminals

    • @fievans9124
      @fievans9124 Рік тому

      He did NOT beat her up. Before she was in a relationship with Reggie,she suffered from poor mental health.

  • @superbad3591
    @superbad3591 3 роки тому +33

    "Well they was two puffs wasn't they to be quiet honest" - Eddie Richardson

    • @colinbrown5729
      @colinbrown5729 3 роки тому +1

      Fantastic lol

    • @paulobrien9272
      @paulobrien9272 3 роки тому

      I will come and find you

    • @briangreen842
      @briangreen842 2 роки тому +1

      Richardsons we’re the real deal. Krays we’re.-unts. Look what they done when they were nicked. Done everyone 😡

    • @stephengold1403
      @stephengold1403 2 роки тому

      Couple off puffs who would off had you

    • @paulobrien1910
      @paulobrien1910 2 роки тому

      @@stephengold1403 we are coming to find you

  • @anngray9171
    @anngray9171 Рік тому +62

    I was investigating the life of my great grandfather Henry Dunn Sayer, an East End local hero. He was awarded many decorations, he held a certificate from the Royal Humane Society, received their medal with bars. His citation was "he never lost a soul." He saved 112 children and one adult from drowning in the local canal, over the course of several years. Everyone was so poor, Charlie Chaplin, another East End boy, just starting out, held two charity concerts for him. When Henry Dunn Sayer died aged 54, the local people and undertakers organized his funeral at Chingford Mount. There was no money for a private plot so he was interred in a common grave. In a curious twist, the Chingford Mount officials decided he should be placed in a mass children's grave, saying he had saved children in life, he would look after them in death. I stood by this pit, turned away and within a few paces, stumbled across monstrous marble tombs. The krays, they are buried close by a man of bravery and honour. Makes one think about who gets the rewards in society. Interesting my great grandfather only ever received multiple bronze decorations...he only saved 113 poor people, not even worth one silver medal.

    • @monkeyface6139
      @monkeyface6139 Рік тому +9

      That a lot to squeeze into 54 years.
      You are no doubt very proud of him.
      Marble means nothing...it's gaudy.

    • @tonyparrish9216
      @tonyparrish9216 Рік тому +14

      Your grandfather didn't receive worldly possessions and rewards, his rewards are in heaven!

    • @suesmith3744
      @suesmith3744 Рік тому +5

      @Ann, I’m so sorry Ann, nobody ever said life is fair 🤷🏻‍♀️😢…. What an amazing man .

    • @blueshirtman8875
      @blueshirtman8875 Рік тому +5

      Yes but we all know now who was the real hero. Real decent good people like your grandfather do what they do in a quiet decent unassuming non violent way, that's the difference between him and these to mindless thugs. People only "respected" them out of fear not love and affection that your grandfather gave and received.

    • @seansands424
      @seansands424 Рік тому

      @@blueshirtman8875 The government is worst than The Krays but nobody says anything about them

  • @fbo4545
    @fbo4545 4 роки тому +100

    I’m just trying to get to sleep rn

  • @Bennyboy12
    @Bennyboy12 4 роки тому +144

    Charlie krays comb over was a crime in itself lol. He should have done time for it.

  • @jcool-br7wm
    @jcool-br7wm Рік тому

    The best documentary out of them all ❤👍

  • @Ruby-ep8oc
    @Ruby-ep8oc 3 роки тому +17

    They ruled . They may gave been gangsters but the common people loved them so much. Women were safe to walk the streets at night. The were jailed because they were becoming so powerful they were almost untouchable.

  • @tankc6474
    @tankc6474 6 років тому +4

    good documentary 👍

  • @deborahleone4351
    @deborahleone4351 4 роки тому +6

    I would LOVE to finish watching this, but I cant take a commercial ad every 5 minutes (truly)! TYSM and God bless you all 😘💕🙏🙋‍♀️

    • @ploppyploppy
      @ploppyploppy 4 роки тому

      Adblock

    • @LUKERs1196
      @LUKERs1196 4 роки тому

      God bless you too 😇

    • @Lousy_Bastard
      @Lousy_Bastard 4 роки тому

      At the start of the video, click past each yellow marking it will dissappear do that to each one then go back to the start no ads.

    • @rinoanniebern4098
      @rinoanniebern4098 3 роки тому

      I also just found a hack to avoid ads throughout yt videos. If you click on a video and notice all the yellow markers showing where ads will be. You fast forward the whole video (slide the red marker to the end) when you replay the video the ads will be gone!!!

    • @mrT-qp1mf
      @mrT-qp1mf 2 роки тому

      Stop moaning about adverts. They last 15 seconds max. Miles better than 3/4 mins watching terrestrial tv. Spoilt with tech these days.

  • @pretorious700
    @pretorious700 4 роки тому +28

    Fear is not the same as respect.

    • @DjGo99
      @DjGo99 Рік тому

      But it keeps you alive longer. Respect and love only last for so long. Sonny from "A Bronx tale" said it best.

    • @kingian9793
      @kingian9793 8 місяців тому

      Fear is the power

  • @ThroatSore
    @ThroatSore 3 роки тому +22

    'I suppose it was a protection racket in a way'.
    Of course, paying them was entirely optional.

    • @The_welder_
      @The_welder_ Рік тому

      Your name should be headache , not sore throat.

  • @judyvalencia3257
    @judyvalencia3257 5 років тому +4

    Thank You for posting. I had never heard of these brothers before.

    • @jamesohara4686
      @jamesohara4686 5 років тому

      You have never lived

    • @judyvalencia3257
      @judyvalencia3257 5 років тому +7

      @@jamesohara4686 Just because someone has never heard of these awful people doesn't mean anything. Maybe they were a big deal where your from , but that doesn't mean everybody all over the world has heard of them.

    • @jamesohara4686
      @jamesohara4686 5 років тому

      Thats fair 😊

    • @judyvalencia3257
      @judyvalencia3257 5 років тому

      @@jamesohara4686 Thank You.

    • @Liam.2000
      @Liam.2000 3 роки тому

      You been living under a rock your whole life?

  • @elizabethseiden1867
    @elizabethseiden1867 3 роки тому +7

    Brilliant video! The Kray’s were the original gangsters with great hair!

    • @GeorgeFreeman55
      @GeorgeFreeman55 3 роки тому

      Agreed I find it pitiful when I see some mafioso with a bald dome. The Krays looked the part.

  • @michaelharrison3602
    @michaelharrison3602 2 роки тому +7

    I was drinking in the east end the day the twins got sentenced in every pub I went in people were singing "Ronnie Kray has gone away gone away gone away " to the tune of London bridge is falling down so much for them being loved in East London

  • @makararemmington4412
    @makararemmington4412 3 роки тому +225

    People said when the Krays ruled you were safe to walk the streets at night . When Ronnie died a huge amount of people turned out to pay their respects and say goodbye

    • @stephenreeds3672
      @stephenreeds3672 3 роки тому +31

      But not safe rom the Krays.

    • @JestahYT
      @JestahYT 3 роки тому +3

      Imma like this comment cuz of yo pfp ❤️

    • @verse336
      @verse336 3 роки тому +5

      @@stephenreeds3672 Yeah if you had beef with them. Nowerdays get scum who try jump you.

    • @BC_Joshie
      @BC_Joshie 3 роки тому +32

      @@stephenreeds3672 The Krays and 90% of other real gangsters never hurt innocent people.

    • @daisybelle1025
      @daisybelle1025 2 роки тому +5

      @Paul Mcbride English...do you speak it??

  • @thevanguardsofmanhood8463
    @thevanguardsofmanhood8463 3 роки тому +50

    I could listen to Norman Lucas's stories all day long. I'm certainly going to buy some of this books, the man is amazing, "Where does this put me, you're an escaper?". love it.

    • @johneddison5906
      @johneddison5906 Рік тому

      The guy is an absolute cretin. A worm of the highest caliber. A persnickety little pompous weasel. No time for rats 🐀 or the creeps who admire them

  • @serverlan763
    @serverlan763 5 років тому +30

    The geezer at 15.46 is so posh that he sound drunk through the entire documentary.

    • @pdjmay22
      @pdjmay22 5 років тому +6

      He was

    • @alexojideagu
      @alexojideagu 4 роки тому +5

      He sounds like the drunk posh man in the fast show. He was very..........very drunk

  • @ArsLonga1967
    @ArsLonga1967 2 роки тому +11

    I see newspaper journalists haven't changed in 50+ years. Great documentary, thank you for posting.

  • @aaroncollard2213
    @aaroncollard2213 2 роки тому +8

    "People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones"
    -Ron kray

  • @brendaswampter2307
    @brendaswampter2307 3 роки тому +39

    I loved this documentary about the KRAYS. I am an american that loves british drama and british TV.

  • @ChicoEscuela
    @ChicoEscuela 2 роки тому +9

    Charlie’s comb over mullet is epic, like a pet raccoon.

  • @mystery4763
    @mystery4763 Місяць тому

    Thank you
    Great Documentary

  • @glenaitken3471
    @glenaitken3471 4 роки тому +56

    "I bent him up like a pretzel".....

    • @luvmibratt
      @luvmibratt 2 роки тому +1

      Did you really really hurt him..?

  • @communistjesus
    @communistjesus 5 років тому +373

    The Kray twins were just KRAY, KRAY.........

  • @BritinIsrael
    @BritinIsrael 5 років тому +85

    "yeah i suppose it was a protection racket in a way" LOL

    • @geoffpoole483
      @geoffpoole483 4 роки тому +12

      Real gentlemen they were. Always shook your hand before they murdered you.

  • @mrkipling2201
    @mrkipling2201 3 роки тому +33

    I can believe that shop owners or small business owners would go to the Krays and ask them for protection. They knew that if people knew that the Krays were looking after their pub or shop then no trouble would happen.

    • @dazzamcg2369
      @dazzamcg2369 2 роки тому +8

      My grandfather used to own a little shop when the krays started to take over. He was forced to pay them protection money. The twins sent over an associate to do the deal. I believe he only met one of the twins just once when he missed a payment. Got away with just a verbal warning

    • @geoffpoole483
      @geoffpoole483 2 роки тому

      @@dazzamcg2369 You mean he didn't nail your head to the floor?

    • @monkeytennis8861
      @monkeytennis8861 2 роки тому

      @@dazzamcg2369 nope

    • @truthtarot7074
      @truthtarot7074 2 роки тому

      @@dazzamcg2369 Gosh 😳

    • @jamaldee5414
      @jamaldee5414 Рік тому

      They were the ones who sent someone to mess up your shop. Don't get it twisted

  • @johnnyp4001
    @johnnyp4001 3 роки тому +8

    At 9.25 the old fella said , '' if the Queen was to walk in '', I bet a load of people did say that when Ronnie walked in, not too loudly though

  • @michaelfox933
    @michaelfox933 4 роки тому +134

    Tom Hardy was a great actor to play these guys!

    • @bobcrachit6049
      @bobcrachit6049 3 роки тому +6

      Apart from he butchered one of the voices

    • @StarzzyJJASD
      @StarzzyJJASD 3 роки тому +3

      The original was better

    • @sgiiprizz7510
      @sgiiprizz7510 3 роки тому

      @@bobcrachit6049 Ronnies right ?

    • @jackmehoffe9372
      @jackmehoffe9372 2 роки тому

      @@StarzzyJJASD yes Emma!

    • @darthkek1953
      @darthkek1953 2 роки тому

      @@bobcrachit6049 what he lost in menace he made up for in joy by making me remember Tommy Cooper.

  • @richardphipps6485
    @richardphipps6485 4 роки тому +17

    I was drinking in the Blind Beggars the night after the shooting of George Cornwall it was practically empty and all night long they played the song by Cher Bang Bang l think back and realise it was quite surreal.

  • @dangerman8625
    @dangerman8625 3 роки тому +31

    The Richardson Gang were the ones to watch, Charlie, and Eddie Richardson, thay had intelligence.!

    • @darrenfry4689
      @darrenfry4689 3 роки тому +3

      South London boys proper money getters ask fred

    • @brianwilson3952
      @brianwilson3952 3 роки тому +2

      And they were a lot harder.

    • @connormitchell6446
      @connormitchell6446 3 роки тому

      @@brianwilson3952 I hate it when people say that. But yeah they were more organized but I dont think they were that much more powerful that the Krays

    • @jackmehoffe9372
      @jackmehoffe9372 2 роки тому

      Cornell was a Richardson enforcer. Real name George Myers. Met his nephew. He was a bouncer at Dukes nightclub Chelmsford. Great man. All tough as nails.

    • @lefty3985
      @lefty3985 2 роки тому

      @RA CW 😂👍

  • @drucilla.e
    @drucilla.e 3 роки тому +20

    Tom hardy in legend is amazing! If you haven’t seen it definitely watch it!!!

    • @darthkek1953
      @darthkek1953 2 роки тому

      It's Tom Hardy's fifth-best crime film.

    • @binkytube
      @binkytube 2 роки тому +1

      The movie isn't that good, but Tom Hardy is amazing. The other Krays movie is better with the Kemp brothers.

    • @monkeytennis8861
      @monkeytennis8861 2 роки тому

      He's awful as them

  • @99fruitbat
    @99fruitbat 6 років тому +27

    What a brilliant documentary ! And a real- life cast of old - fashioned East End Villeins 😉 Excellent stuff , so interesting . Thank you so much for the video .

    • @davidallen346
      @davidallen346 6 років тому

      The first Kray movie made in 1990 was very well done with the deep sense of story telling

    • @99fruitbat
      @99fruitbat 6 років тому +1

      Your Mother As are you , my Dear 😂 Please be aware you are ' Trolling ' an old lady who ' stumbles ' around the Internet 😁 please excuse my diction , grammar , Not easy for us ' Oldies ' 😂

    • @99fruitbat
      @99fruitbat 6 років тому +1

      David Allen I need to check that out ! Sounds really interesting . Thank-You for your reply.

  • @ssoldie5490
    @ssoldie5490 5 років тому +24

    we all make choices, and bullys know how to instill fear through violance, and that is doing evil to your fellow man.

    • @DieFlabbergast
      @DieFlabbergast 5 років тому

      The plural of "bully" is "bullies," as you would know if you spoke English.

    • @lefty3985
      @lefty3985 4 роки тому +1

      DieFlabbergast prat

  • @sqwidink1
    @sqwidink1 3 роки тому +3

    Good lads x

  • @homeboy2166
    @homeboy2166 2 роки тому +128

    My parents and grandparents grew up in this era and always said that is was a much better time to live in. The cockneys were genuinely nice people. Most people didn’t really have anything against the gangsters of this time. They only messed with each other or with people causing trouble. Since the end of the London gangster the city’s underclass has ran rampant.

    • @debras1503
      @debras1503 2 роки тому +5

      It is like the States Mafia really, nobody innocent was ever hurt

    • @cinemaparadiso5402
      @cinemaparadiso5402 2 роки тому +4

      @@debras1503 🤣😂🤣😂

    • @nicholasmcvey5871
      @nicholasmcvey5871 2 роки тому +29

      Rose tinted glasses mate!

    • @homeboy2166
      @homeboy2166 2 роки тому +4

      @DC Islam is the scourge of the minders western world!

    • @mp-no9yv
      @mp-no9yv 2 роки тому +15

      @@debras1503 What about all the innocent law-abiding business's that were extorted for 'protection' money by the mafia? Or made to put mafioso on they payroll for no-show jobs? This was a staple source of mafia income. Your business went up in flames if you said no, or you were killed (as with the brothers who ran the New Jersey refuse business and tried to say no).

  • @michaelarchangel1163
    @michaelarchangel1163 2 роки тому +7

    Charlie Kray had the most wonderful speaking voice. Regardless of dropped aitches and his East End accent, it would have been a marvellous one for radio narration of childrens' books. No nasty comments about subject matter, please !

  • @stevelawson7595
    @stevelawson7595 6 років тому +83

    Now this the kind of videos I like to watch!

    • @TheMobBoss666
      @TheMobBoss666 6 років тому +1

      Me too, I wish I lived back in the day before cctv was everywhere

    • @TheMobBoss666
      @TheMobBoss666 6 років тому

      Because I guarantee I'd be a millionaire this very day

    • @JohnDoe-qo4xd
      @JohnDoe-qo4xd 6 років тому +1

      dale watts ; You might even say you hail from a millionaire family then, all those geniouses and no cameras; "And now over to something completely different:
      If I lived before that cheap ball Bic Pen and invented it, I'd be a millionaire by now." Were not born then, but it just shows what a bloody genious I'd been now!.

    • @ritasmith2568
      @ritasmith2568 5 років тому

      steve Lawson b

    • @bananka4905
      @bananka4905 5 років тому

      is that an upside down cross?

  • @bluekarma6849
    @bluekarma6849 2 роки тому

    Saw the movie,enjoyed this.

  • @murielhanby6516
    @murielhanby6516 3 роки тому +1

    Wow a gruesome story but very interesting just the same. 👏👏

  • @MrX-ur4fx
    @MrX-ur4fx 3 роки тому +19

    What about jay’s dads poker tournament

  • @johnwalton2019
    @johnwalton2019 2 роки тому +27

    I read Chris Lambrianou's book years ago. Out of all of the associates that went down with the Krays in 1969, he is the only one that showed any real remorse for his involvement in the Firm. He served 15 years+ I believe, as he wouldn't turn Queen's evidence. Its a sad story, such a waste...

    • @williamwhitcombe6487
      @williamwhitcombe6487 2 роки тому +5

      I believe the book your referring to is called "INSIDE THE FIRM" John. I read it myself man moons ago

    • @paulkillick527
      @paulkillick527 Рік тому

      Inside the firm was done by Tony lambrianou

  • @Easy_Now_Star
    @Easy_Now_Star 3 роки тому +31

    Everybody wants to be a gangster until they get to hear about the Kray's.

    • @superbad3591
      @superbad3591 3 роки тому +9

      Two bullies who liked little boys and needed 10 people with them to do anything

    • @Easy_Now_Star
      @Easy_Now_Star 3 роки тому +1

      @david Stepney Costas del sol?

    • @crazytanks2001
      @crazytanks2001 3 роки тому +1

      @@superbad3591 their bar fights say something different

    • @michaelharrison3602
      @michaelharrison3602 2 роки тому

      It's when they hear about the Krays that they wannabe gangsters most of today's scummys are Kray Groupies they've got posters,tattoos they've seen the films and read every book written by any one who says they knew the Krays all these old faces talking about old school values that only existed in their heads

    • @michaelharrison3602
      @michaelharrison3602 2 роки тому

      @@crazytanks2001 they could have a row no one denies that but that's not the same thing as running London

  • @TheMoodyLoners
    @TheMoodyLoners 3 роки тому +41

    While most here mention the Tom Hardy film about the Krays, I think a much better film about them was released around 1991. It was entitled The Krays. Yes, Tom Hardy’s performance was quite good, but the 1991 film had a better script that shifted the psychological center of the story to the Kray,s mother.

    • @lionsheart8
      @lionsheart8 2 роки тому +1

      Agreed.

    • @keegangrahame5440
      @keegangrahame5440 2 роки тому +3

      Definitely however I think everyone mentions Tom Hardy because he played both of them.

    • @fievans9124
      @fievans9124 Рік тому

      Absolutely!

    • @lukeshaw3375
      @lukeshaw3375 Рік тому

      Are you talking about the rise of the krays and then the fall of the krays? Definitely had better character interactions throughout the films but the resemblance between the 2 main actors was absolutely terrible 😂

    • @laurarules3642
      @laurarules3642 Рік тому

      @@keegangrahame5440 The Kray twins in the Tom Hardy film 'Legend' were very watered down versions of them. They were much more violent, smarter and unpredictable than Hardy portrayed. They didn't come across as intimidating , nasty and evil as they actually were. It was a modern take on them and not accurate

  • @pommiebears
    @pommiebears 6 років тому +157

    Charlie kray’s voice reminds me so much of my grandad’s.......a real cockney accent! My grandad was kind though lol!

    • @stuartbrown25
      @stuartbrown25 4 роки тому +14

      Charlie kray was a real gentleman, loved by many and was the complete opposite to reggie and Ronnie... what happened to Charlie was terrible, he was set up with the shipment of cocaine. because reggies 30 years were almost up, they didn't want two kray brothers on the street. they sent poor Charlie to a prison on a cold island and there was no need to do this.... R.I.P Charlie kray….

    • @emmyemon2156
      @emmyemon2156 4 роки тому +5

      Pommie bears charlie kray was a gentlemen the opposite of the twins

    • @pommiebears
      @pommiebears 4 роки тому +3

      Yes..I’m sorry I was wrong. Thanks. 🌹

    • @titchlilly1294
      @titchlilly1294 3 роки тому +2

      Unlike the stupid accent many of the east end have now.

    • @xi-Jinping-1st
      @xi-Jinping-1st 3 роки тому +4

      Cockney accent is nearly dead

  • @rinoanniebern4098
    @rinoanniebern4098 3 роки тому +12

    I also just found a hack to avoid ads throughout yt videos. If you click on a video and notice all the yellow markers showing where ads will be. You fast forward the whole video (slide the red marker to the end) when you replay the video the ads will be gone!!!

    • @tattie278
      @tattie278 3 роки тому +1

      It works, but after sliding the red slider to the end, you need to close the video then restart it and the annoying adverts are gone.

    • @johnclegg4993
      @johnclegg4993 3 роки тому

      Two gold stars and a housepoint for that! 👍

    • @hnqureshi7752
      @hnqureshi7752 3 роки тому +1

      Or just slide the red slider to the end and tap replay.

    • @mastercommander4535
      @mastercommander4535 3 роки тому

      Cheepskate. Cost of a glass of wine a month..ad free and great music library.

  • @pacsoulpavon9649
    @pacsoulpavon9649 3 роки тому +2

    Here because of legend . If I see Tom hardy , I watch . Btw loved how Ron sounded just like bane from the dark knight rises.

  • @zpunter4373
    @zpunter4373 2 роки тому +15

    The one lesson is rats always rat out eventually when they have to, love the Kray story watched all the movies, but they were doomed to fail like all organised crime, the problem is they will always rat on each other to save their own necks. There has never been a a big organised crime bust without the ones who turn, even now.

  • @djdefk2
    @djdefk2 3 роки тому +28

    Funny how that newspaper editor says at the end “that he no scruples, and or morals in conning people” to get a ‘story’ and or a TV series!
    All I can say is at least the criminals of that era had some code of conduct unlike journalists and politicians. The double standards and hypocrisy is disgusting!!!

    • @djdefk2
      @djdefk2 2 роки тому +1

      @RA CW totally agree with you there sir 👋🏽👋🏽👋🏽

    • @plshelpmeawkdough
      @plshelpmeawkdough 2 роки тому +1

      they literally had no code of conduct considering a lot of their power came from tormenting ordinary people just trying to make a living😂😂
      That’s not even mentioning the fact that Ron was a literal pedophile lmaooooooooooo

    • @pipfox7834
      @pipfox7834 Рік тому +1

      yes, the code of conduct where you nail people's heads to the floor or knife someone that is ''looking at you funny''... that type of code of conduct, you mean?

  • @janethagaman394
    @janethagaman394 6 років тому +67

    I've always been interested in these two, how they were able to gain and have so much control. They really frightened people and terrorized the East End.

    • @alanwann9318
      @alanwann9318 3 роки тому +18

      Covid 19 is used to the same ends!

    • @joecook5689
      @joecook5689 3 роки тому +1

      Movie Legend says different

    • @tianahaley9913
      @tianahaley9913 2 роки тому +7

      Agree me as well they were born 10/24 and my. B-day is 10/25 not the same age but us Scorpios are a forced to be reckoned with in real life🤷😩

    • @blueshirtman8875
      @blueshirtman8875 2 роки тому +5

      Monsters.

    • @smelltheglove2038
      @smelltheglove2038 2 роки тому +1

      @@blueshirtman8875 what’s worse? The government.

  • @ilduce5874
    @ilduce5874 2 роки тому +4

    As a child, I remember a Monty Python skit about the Piranha Brothers that in hindsight was a satire about the Kray twins. They kept talking about the Piranhas nailing people’s heads to the floor.

  • @Cabdrum1
    @Cabdrum1 3 роки тому +6

    When the Krays ruled the roost there were no adverts on UA-cam !

  • @dutchvanhelsing9050
    @dutchvanhelsing9050 5 років тому +18

    Once ! In 1999 I drove down the same road that Ronnie drove down in 1969. Also I looked at a map of east london where the Krays used to live.

    • @myaselfya1699
      @myaselfya1699 5 років тому +1

      🅰🅽🅳 .... 🅶🅸🆅🅴 🆄🆂 🅼🅾🆁🅴

    • @owensuckling1446
      @owensuckling1446 4 роки тому +2

      Thaught you were goi g to say once in band camp

  • @John-nw8uj
    @John-nw8uj 3 роки тому +3

    At the time the BBC used to describe the twins as
    ‘Well known in London Sporting Circles.’
    John

  • @jayfrankie4688
    @jayfrankie4688 3 роки тому +29

    I remember them!!! Yes... Yes I went to school with the Kray Twins. Sure did!!! I am 49 and I have lived in the United States my entire life but I remember them from school. I sat in a desk right in between them. Oh the memories.
    😜😜😜😜

    • @dmmoctober
      @dmmoctober 2 роки тому +1

      😂😂😂😂😂

  • @Sulemankhan-gs3kn
    @Sulemankhan-gs3kn 2 роки тому

    Its so amazing.

  • @glx4909
    @glx4909 5 років тому +77

    amazing how the police can be so powerless against organised crime.

    • @JohnSmith-kz8yo
      @JohnSmith-kz8yo 4 роки тому +2

      They are called the fuzz because their thinking is fuzzy..

    • @3SIXTYPROD
      @3SIXTYPROD 4 роки тому +23

      glx490 you can only fight violence with violence and the police have to follow rules were criminals dont

    • @Gos1234567
      @Gos1234567 3 роки тому +2

      They need evidence to lock crims up.

    • @weehudyy
      @weehudyy 2 роки тому +3

      As they said right at the start , the police enforced stupid laws , that even they knew were stupid . Consequently the street people have no respect for them , and see them as ' the enemy ... ' The East End has been that way since Robert Peel's very first police force ...

    • @ZIGSVIDS
      @ZIGSVIDS 2 роки тому +9

      Yep , the Krays got 30 years to contemplate police failure.

  • @xeroxre6837
    @xeroxre6837 5 років тому +60

    Amazing how delusional people can be to justify benefitting from evil

    • @mikez650
      @mikez650 2 роки тому

      Greed is an amazing thing.

    • @pipfox7834
      @pipfox7834 Рік тому

      @Chill Indie a psychopath and his sidekick? what world do you live in in?

    • @3socksmorgan485
      @3socksmorgan485 Рік тому +1

      @@Dantheman87 what empire, when they died they had nothing, no money, no properties, nothing

    • @Dantheman87
      @Dantheman87 Рік тому

      @@3socksmorgan485 yeah when they died. Wasn't talking about while they were on their deathbed you tool. Go away before I spaff in your eyes clown

  • @Kimmy234L
    @Kimmy234L 8 місяців тому +1

    Interesting thumbnail, as that is Morden High Street that is behind the pic of the Krays.

  • @Gill12283
    @Gill12283 3 роки тому +2

    Nipper...Kray Gangbuster...love it😀

  • @NathanChisholm041
    @NathanChisholm041 5 років тому +16

    This was not the Martin Short i was expecting!

  • @hafidmostarhfir2245
    @hafidmostarhfir2245 3 роки тому +6

    There is a great book about the Krays
    The profession of violence
    I loved it

  • @rolfdejonge3915
    @rolfdejonge3915 2 роки тому +1

    Super! Thanks!
    ✌️🤠💥🌟🌀🌐

  • @penelopegreene
    @penelopegreene Рік тому +2

    "The Piranha Brothers": Monty Python.

  • @finster444k
    @finster444k 5 років тому +62

    HAHA ! The old Switcheroo at the Mental Hospital! Now that Is Hilarious!

  • @ArthurMoore-ii8nn
    @ArthurMoore-ii8nn 4 роки тому +4

    1:17 These guys sure had alot of gangsta rap album cover type photos taken of themselves! LOL!

  • @smartscratcheastmidlands6589
    @smartscratcheastmidlands6589 3 роки тому +3

    "I'm out there airwinging on the street and all I hear is Kray Kray Kray".....