The Kray Twins: London's Infamous Mafia Duo | Rise And Fall Of The Krays | Timeline

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  • 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 TH-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 ปีที่แล้ว +132

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    • @benhennessy7798
      @benhennessy7798 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      P pp
      p

    • @murielhanby6516
      @murielhanby6516 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      ) e la 0

    • @tonytwodogs13
      @tonytwodogs13 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @JONATHAN SUTCLIFFE 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @jjammmees
      @jjammmees 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh I'm kinda into Creepypasta but that scare me a lot.

    • @jjammmees
      @jjammmees 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @JONATHAN SUTCLIFFE Not familiar.

  • @jamessmithjr6788
    @jamessmithjr6788 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1312

    "A paranoid schizophrenic walks into a bar."

    • @tinakilburn212
      @tinakilburn212 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      When they open 😂😂😂

    • @robosborne7103
      @robosborne7103 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      and says Ouch, because it was an iron bar

    • @jamiedutton7257
      @jamiedutton7257 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Like a western.

    • @kamkruger8828
      @kamkruger8828 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I'm from America...where are you all from...

    • @michaelhowe8674
      @michaelhowe8674 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Kam Kruger
      London, England mate

  • @momopeep7821
    @momopeep7821 3 ปีที่แล้ว +190

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

    • @elliottjohnson3713
      @elliottjohnson3713 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

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

    • @AwesometownUSA
      @AwesometownUSA 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว

      😂

  • @sambakka540
    @sambakka540 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1134

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

    • @callyemby4587
      @callyemby4587 4 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      It's The American Mafia.

    • @jamiejosh96
      @jamiejosh96 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Cally Emby same thing

    • @or529
      @or529 4 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      @@jamiejosh96 no its not.

    • @raichu2649
      @raichu2649 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Is it true???

    • @sambakka540
      @sambakka540 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@raichu2649 I doubt it

  • @Conspiracy515
    @Conspiracy515 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1708

    I CAME FOR A SHOOTOUT, A PROPER SHOOTOUT 🤣🤣

    • @jasminolmedo9336
      @jasminolmedo9336 4 ปีที่แล้ว +84

      Conspiracy515 Like a wessterrn 🤣

    • @Conspiracy515
      @Conspiracy515 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      @@jasminolmedo9336 I love this film so much lol😂😂

    • @jasminolmedo9336
      @jasminolmedo9336 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Conspiracy515 Me too!! I have it on replay 😂🤣

    • @ronnelldaniels3431
      @ronnelldaniels3431 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Conspiracy515 you gonna bake me a cake

    • @matthewbaez2723
      @matthewbaez2723 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      A FUCKEN SHOOTOUT.

  • @JamesLaserpimpWalsh
    @JamesLaserpimpWalsh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +120

    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 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      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 ปีที่แล้ว +12

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

    • @sonnytopboy4975
      @sonnytopboy4975 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @mikeholland1031
      @mikeholland1031 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @Raewoo333
      @Raewoo333 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      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

  • @alisonstacy2025
    @alisonstacy2025 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1665

    Legend was amazing Tom Hardy was so good in the part

    • @kristarolleri6442
      @kristarolleri6442 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Alison Stacy part(s) ;)

    • @escarsegat
      @escarsegat 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      sad thing they never mentioned mike tyson

    • @AlmostReady504
      @AlmostReady504 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

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

    • @sonnyblack6121
      @sonnyblack6121 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

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

    • @shootboxpodcast
      @shootboxpodcast 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

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

  • @lancedeboyle
    @lancedeboyle 4 ปีที่แล้ว +573

    "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 ปีที่แล้ว +20

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

    • @stevebowness9435
      @stevebowness9435 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      AWESOME 🤣🤣😂😂😂

    • @stevebowness9435
      @stevebowness9435 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Don't Start 🤣🤣😂😂🤪

    • @abdihassan7208
      @abdihassan7208 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      timestamp?

    • @giantred
      @giantred 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@abdihassan7208 Monty Python "The Piranha Brothers"

  • @BillBraskyy
    @BillBraskyy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @BillBraskyy
      @BillBraskyy ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @youngsandwich2792
      @youngsandwich2792 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @jjlacey1970
      @jjlacey1970 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MrSimon1909 chuckle brothers

  • @43jaygee
    @43jaygee 5 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    Just found this on TH-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 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ok

    • @billsamuls7620
      @billsamuls7620 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      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

    • @lamiaallen7830
      @lamiaallen7830 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

      SO BORING‼️🥴

  • @Victory987
    @Victory987 5 ปีที่แล้ว +399

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

    • @TheTibmeister
      @TheTibmeister 5 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Churchil was a war criminal and a racist the shoe fits

    • @gwpeatz6263
      @gwpeatz6263 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

    • @Flatdays302
      @Flatdays302 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @stevechristie2569
      @stevechristie2569 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Nigel Kent the cops hate Noye he murdered one.

  • @DenzelLN936
    @DenzelLN936 4 ปีที่แล้ว +82

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

    • @chiricahuaapache5132
      @chiricahuaapache5132 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @kinny369
      @kinny369 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hail TH-cam prime 😆 🤣 😂

    • @kinny369
      @kinny369 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @stephenryan7698
    @stephenryan7698 4 ปีที่แล้ว +341

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +15

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

    • @inbloommusic
      @inbloommusic 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Brilliant 😂

    • @jamesreynolds2867
      @jamesreynolds2867 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Slap-moore Cheeks But low intellect.

    • @dannyhmmcup
      @dannyhmmcup 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

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

    • @philfyphil
      @philfyphil 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      LOL

  • @Thenorthsace
    @Thenorthsace 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1131

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      You've earn a pound their

    • @JohnKobaRuddy
      @JohnKobaRuddy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Funnily enough...

    • @christianmorson3945
      @christianmorson3945 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

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

    • @geoffedwards-tb4kp
      @geoffedwards-tb4kp 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@christianmorson3945 never been a full shilling have you.

  • @doonewatts7155
    @doonewatts7155 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    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 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @manda.watching.YouTube
      @manda.watching.YouTube ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @1taxsettlement
    @1taxsettlement 4 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    boy, Maureen Flanagan aged gracefully compared to those geezers!

    • @kylerobinson8636
      @kylerobinson8636 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      You should see her now

    • @johnniethepom2905
      @johnniethepom2905 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @MrMarkrobertson
    @MrMarkrobertson 3 ปีที่แล้ว +69

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

    • @OVERLORDD101
      @OVERLORDD101 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @russcooke5671
      @russcooke5671 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @gregod806
      @gregod806 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @doubletapm4
    @doubletapm4 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

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

    • @mystery4763
      @mystery4763 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yas me too

    • @AlanCollins-h5l
      @AlanCollins-h5l หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@mystery4763 And me

  • @mehmetguner5729
    @mehmetguner5729 4 ปีที่แล้ว +238

    “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 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @b1gmustang567
      @b1gmustang567 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

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

    • @gloriasymes4290
      @gloriasymes4290 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Put what, Im confused?

    • @worganfreeman2694
      @worganfreeman2694 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Spit out my drink at that! Love that line!

    • @richyearle007
      @richyearle007 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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...;)

  • @anngray9171
    @anngray9171 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +14

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

    • @suesmith3744
      @suesmith3744 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @blueshirtman8875
      @blueshirtman8875 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @terencemeikle534
    @terencemeikle534 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

  • @64andyjh
    @64andyjh ปีที่แล้ว +38

    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 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fax

    • @Nyx544
      @Nyx544 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Tell that to the families of the ppl they killed

    • @64andyjh
      @64andyjh ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Nyx544 or raped

    • @dominic4051
      @dominic4051 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @BricktopsPigs
    @BricktopsPigs 4 ปีที่แล้ว +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".

  • @superbad3591
    @superbad3591 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

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

    • @colinbrown5729
      @colinbrown5729 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Fantastic lol

    • @paulobrien9272
      @paulobrien9272 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I will come and find you

    • @briangreen842
      @briangreen842 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @stephengold1403
      @stephengold1403 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Couple off puffs who would off had you

    • @paulobrien1910
      @paulobrien1910 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@stephengold1403 we are coming to find you

  • @AnthonyJohnson-qv5nc
    @AnthonyJohnson-qv5nc 5 ปีที่แล้ว +80

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

  • @leemyers8292
    @leemyers8292 4 ปีที่แล้ว +276

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

    • @CIMAmotor
      @CIMAmotor 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

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

    • @alundavies8402
      @alundavies8402 4 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @alundavies8402
      @alundavies8402 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @jamesreynolds2867
    @jamesreynolds2867 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Quite funny that

    • @glen7318
      @glen7318 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @jackmehoffe9372
      @jackmehoffe9372 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@glen7318 not if you're black

    • @glen7318
      @glen7318 2 ปีที่แล้ว +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.)

  • @christopherdale5243
    @christopherdale5243 4 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    I Love the honesty of Charlie Kray and their Associates.

    • @bradmacarthur3810
      @bradmacarthur3810 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      They already served their time why lie about it.

    • @pipfox7834
      @pipfox7834 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @tbone2471
      @tbone2471 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's an oxymoron if I ever heard one.

  • @ukgraffitiwalker8846
    @ukgraffitiwalker8846 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Charlie's hairstyle was scarier than Ron.

  • @pretorious700
    @pretorious700 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Fear is not the same as respect.

    • @DjGo99
      @DjGo99 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @kingian9793
      @kingian9793 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Fear is the power

  • @fbo4545
    @fbo4545 5 ปีที่แล้ว +101

    I’m just trying to get to sleep rn

  • @Bennyboy12
    @Bennyboy12 4 ปีที่แล้ว +144

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

  • @kitkat186
    @kitkat186 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +14

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

    • @KD400_
      @KD400_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      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 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @deborahleone4351
    @deborahleone4351 4 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว

      Adblock

    • @LUKERs1196
      @LUKERs1196 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      God bless you too 😇

    • @Lousy_Bastard
      @Lousy_Bastard 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      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 ปีที่แล้ว

      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 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @brendaswampter2307
    @brendaswampter2307 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

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

  • @ThroatSore
    @ThroatSore 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

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

    • @The_welder_
      @The_welder_ ปีที่แล้ว

      Your name should be headache , not sore throat.

  • @serverlan763
    @serverlan763 6 ปีที่แล้ว +30

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

    • @pdjmay22
      @pdjmay22 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      He was

    • @alexojideagu
      @alexojideagu 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

  • @DJWHEEL1
    @DJWHEEL1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +664

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

    • @cheymilion3168
      @cheymilion3168 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @John Brighton Nah watch the one with Ahardy tom

    • @traceymckeever3179
      @traceymckeever3179 5 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +23

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

    • @traceymckeever3179
      @traceymckeever3179 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@davidfitzgerald4683 I agree

    • @standafan4141
      @standafan4141 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      The one with the Kemps is a legend

  • @MaverickSeventySeven
    @MaverickSeventySeven 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

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

  • @aaroncollard2213
    @aaroncollard2213 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

  • @zedata57
    @zedata57 5 ปีที่แล้ว +165

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

    • @virgoqueen3106
      @virgoqueen3106 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Me to

    • @mikeholland1031
      @mikeholland1031 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@virgoqueen3106 too

    • @globalwarmhugs7741
      @globalwarmhugs7741 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      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 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why?

    • @oceanblue3050
      @oceanblue3050 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

  • @Ruby-ep8oc
    @Ruby-ep8oc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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.

  • @makararemmington4412
    @makararemmington4412 3 ปีที่แล้ว +228

    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 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      But not safe rom the Krays.

    • @JestahYT
      @JestahYT 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Imma like this comment cuz of yo pfp ❤️

    • @verse336
      @verse336 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @BC_Joshie
      @BC_Joshie 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

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

    • @daisybelle1025
      @daisybelle1025 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

  • @pygiana16
    @pygiana16 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Great hairstyle Charlie. Combining the combover and the mullet.

  • @ArsLonga1967
    @ArsLonga1967 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

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

  • @communistjesus
    @communistjesus 5 ปีที่แล้ว +374

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

  • @thevanguardsofmanhood8463
    @thevanguardsofmanhood8463 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      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

  • @ChicoEscuela
    @ChicoEscuela 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

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

  • @michaelharrison3602
    @michaelharrison3602 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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

  • @michaelfox933
    @michaelfox933 4 ปีที่แล้ว +134

    Tom Hardy was a great actor to play these guys!

    • @bobcrachit6049
      @bobcrachit6049 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Apart from he butchered one of the voices

    • @StarzzyJJASD
      @StarzzyJJASD 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The original was better

    • @sgiiprizz7510
      @sgiiprizz7510 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bobcrachit6049 Ronnies right ?

    • @jackmehoffe9372
      @jackmehoffe9372 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@StarzzyJJASD yes Emma!

    • @darthkek1953
      @darthkek1953 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @mrkipling2201
    @mrkipling2201 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    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 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @monkeytennis8861
      @monkeytennis8861 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dazzamcg2369 nope

    • @Tarotcooks
      @Tarotcooks 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dazzamcg2369 Gosh 😳

    • @jamaldee5414
      @jamaldee5414 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @BritinIsrael
    @BritinIsrael 6 ปีที่แล้ว +85

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

    • @geoffpoole483
      @geoffpoole483 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

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

  • @bluegtturbo
    @bluegtturbo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Wtf... 'nobody thought they'd be sentenced for 30 years'.... No?.. After murdering at least 3 people and probably a lot more, nailing people to floors, intimidating decent business owners etc.... Pair of psychos got what they richly deserved.

    • @datcheesecakeboi6745
      @datcheesecakeboi6745 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      One of those people they killed caused a woman to be paralyzed for life and got away with it and the other 2 started the fight with the krays

    • @jai_b
      @jai_b ปีที่แล้ว

      If the twins did these crimes before 1964, they would have been hung. Hanging was abolished in 64.

  • @johnnyp4001
    @johnnyp4001 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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

  • @glx4909
    @glx4909 5 ปีที่แล้ว +77

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

    • @JohnSmith-kz8yo
      @JohnSmith-kz8yo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @3SIXTYPROD
      @3SIXTYPROD 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

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

    • @Gos1234567
      @Gos1234567 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They need evidence to lock crims up.

    • @weehudyy
      @weehudyy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +9

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

  • @drucilla.e
    @drucilla.e 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

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

    • @darthkek1953
      @darthkek1953 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @binkytube
      @binkytube 2 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว

      He's awful as them

  • @dangerman8625
    @dangerman8625 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

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

    • @darrenfry4689
      @darrenfry4689 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      South London boys proper money getters ask fred

    • @brianwilson3952
      @brianwilson3952 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And they were a lot harder.

    • @connormitchell6446
      @connormitchell6446 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      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 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @RA CW 😂👍

  • @richardphipps6485
    @richardphipps6485 4 ปีที่แล้ว +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.

    • @chowder8802
      @chowder8802 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Nancy Sinatra

    • @skitaboo
      @skitaboo 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wow.

    • @xanpenguin754
      @xanpenguin754 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nah police would have been out of there quick!

    • @petergraphic5394
      @petergraphic5394 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Richard Phipps And then you woke up..

  • @Mcqlfc
    @Mcqlfc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    My late grandmother used to live across the road from one of the Krays "associates" who lived with his mum. When the guy got banged up, my nan looked after his mum as she was distraught. One day, my nan had a knock on her door and when she answered it, a big bouquet of flowers was on the door step with a card that just said " Thank you. love from R & R". She said she saw a flash car driving down the road.

    • @gregfrancis5252
      @gregfrancis5252 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      ARE YOU PROUD ?

    • @cjg9454
      @cjg9454 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@gregfrancis5252 are you jealous?

    • @adders45
      @adders45 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Heard that story several times before, whilst growing up in sauf London.

  • @scotty9278
    @scotty9278 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    2 ad's every 5 minutes!!!

  • @ssoldie5490
    @ssoldie5490 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    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 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @lefty3985
      @lefty3985 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      DieFlabbergast prat

  • @michaelarchangel1163
    @michaelarchangel1163 2 ปีที่แล้ว +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 !

  • @glenaitken3471
    @glenaitken3471 4 ปีที่แล้ว +56

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

    • @luvmibratt
      @luvmibratt 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Did you really really hurt him..?

  • @rinoanniebern4098
    @rinoanniebern4098 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว

      Two gold stars and a housepoint for that! 👍

    • @hnqureshi7752
      @hnqureshi7752 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @mastercommander4535
      @mastercommander4535 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @homeboy2166
    @homeboy2166 2 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @cinemaparadiso5402
      @cinemaparadiso5402 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@debras1503 🤣😂🤣😂

    • @nicholasmcvey5871
      @nicholasmcvey5871 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Rose tinted glasses mate!

    • @homeboy2166
      @homeboy2166 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

    • @mp-no9yv
      @mp-no9yv 2 ปีที่แล้ว +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).

  • @williamkz
    @williamkz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @xeroxre6837
    @xeroxre6837 5 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    Amazing how delusional people can be to justify benefitting from evil

    • @mikez650
      @mikez650 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Greed is an amazing thing.

    • @pipfox7834
      @pipfox7834 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @3socksmorgan485
      @3socksmorgan485 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @Dantheman87
      @Dantheman87 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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

  • @truthhitman7473
    @truthhitman7473 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The best film of the Krays was played by the Kemp brothers. 💯

    • @jamesreynolds2867
      @jamesreynolds2867 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Agreed, but Ross Kemp was the best one.

  • @TheMoodyLoners
    @TheMoodyLoners 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Agreed.

    • @keegangrahame5440
      @keegangrahame5440 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @fievans9124
      @fievans9124 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Absolutely!

    • @lukeshaw3375
      @lukeshaw3375 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      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 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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

  • @johnwalton2019
    @johnwalton2019 2 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @paulkillick527
      @paulkillick527 ปีที่แล้ว

      Inside the firm was done by Tony lambrianou

  • @MrX-ur4fx
    @MrX-ur4fx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    What about jay’s dads poker tournament

  • @elizabethseiden1867
    @elizabethseiden1867 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

    • @GeorgeFreeman55
      @GeorgeFreeman55 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @djdefk2
    @djdefk2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @plshelpmeawkdough
      @plshelpmeawkdough 2 ปีที่แล้ว +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 2 ปีที่แล้ว +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?

  • @ilduce5874
    @ilduce5874 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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.

  • @boundlessfreedom8340
    @boundlessfreedom8340 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    These guys are literally KRAY KRAY

  • @Fun-hz8ep
    @Fun-hz8ep 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I played the part of Ronnie aged 12 in the 1990 film met Charlie lovely man

  • @janethagaman394
    @janethagaman394 6 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Covid 19 is used to the same ends!

    • @joecook5689
      @joecook5689 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Movie Legend says different

    • @tianahaley9913
      @tianahaley9913 2 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Monsters.

    • @smelltheglove2038
      @smelltheglove2038 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@blueshirtman8875 what’s worse? The government.

  • @JReyes624
    @JReyes624 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It's crazy how the people involved with them are still lying and covering for them. Saying Reggie "used to be" homosexual, saying Ronnie liked "young boys," then correcting to "young men," saying Reggie's wife killed herself when it was Reggie who did it, the BS about only shaking down establishments who are doing illegal things themselves. Probably the only thing allowing them to sleep at night.

  • @zpunter4373
    @zpunter4373 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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.

  • @Easy_Now_Star
    @Easy_Now_Star 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

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

    • @superbad3591
      @superbad3591 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

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

    • @Easy_Now_Star
      @Easy_Now_Star 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @david Stepney Costas del sol?

    • @crazytanks2001
      @crazytanks2001 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@superbad3591 their bar fights say something different

    • @michaelharrison3602
      @michaelharrison3602 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      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 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @notcricketer
    @notcricketer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Some of the clips seem to be in a wrong aspect ratio.

  • @NathanChisholm041
    @NathanChisholm041 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    This was not the Martin Short i was expecting!

  • @finster444k
    @finster444k 5 ปีที่แล้ว +62

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

  • @invictusmaneo464
    @invictusmaneo464 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Vole, nech toho!!
    Teď jsem masovej vrah!
    Minulej měsíc jsem byl Ruskej agent... Taky čínskej...
    Včera nájemnej vrah a teď už mám zase dvojče :D a nebo dvojníka?!
    Jsem zmatenej :D
    Jak tohle zase dopadne :D

  • @andrewcorbett5729
    @andrewcorbett5729 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Two guys you didn't mess with. Ronnie especially.

  • @liamwhitcombe1237
    @liamwhitcombe1237 6 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    The ONLY reason Nipper was brought in on the case was because he was apparently incorruptible. All the other London senior police officers were in the Krays' pocket. Which made them more crooked than the people they were after imo

    • @Auriflamme
      @Auriflamme 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not true, he was brought in purely on the strength of his nickname.

  • @MonstaTrapz
    @MonstaTrapz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Mugs. Didn't all the firm do 20 years for the twins?

  • @pommiebears
    @pommiebears 6 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @pommiebears
      @pommiebears 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @titchlilly1294
      @titchlilly1294 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @xi-Jinping-1st
      @xi-Jinping-1st 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Cockney accent is nearly dead

  • @John-nw8uj
    @John-nw8uj 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @lisabarrett1062
    @lisabarrett1062 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    They never hurt women or children or members of the public. Principles that not everyone would agree but their motto was you do harm to me I do harm to you.

    • @jaypw321
      @jaypw321 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What about young boys????

    • @jai_b
      @jai_b ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@juzzy203 Ronnie raped young boy teens as well as men, ppl he knew. Sick man.

  • @dutchvanhelsing9050
    @dutchvanhelsing9050 5 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      🅰🅽🅳 .... 🅶🅸🆅🅴 🆄🆂 🅼🅾🆁🅴

    • @owensuckling1446
      @owensuckling1446 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thaught you were goi g to say once in band camp

  • @mikemccormack8993
    @mikemccormack8993 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Those lads might have the East End...but Richie and Eddie own Hammersmith

    • @charlieholmes4734
      @charlieholmes4734 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Who cares about hammersmith lol 😂

    • @FoxtrotOscar2011
      @FoxtrotOscar2011 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      ''Cannonball'' Taffy O' Jones is still after them two

    • @turbo682
      @turbo682 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And Eddie was armed 24/7

    • @LUKERs1196
      @LUKERs1196 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Whats Hammersmith

  • @Cabdrum1
    @Cabdrum1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

  • @JohnDoe-qo4xd
    @JohnDoe-qo4xd 6 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    "-How large was Norman?"
    "-Well, often he could be about 5 meters long, but sometimes everything up to 600 meters..."

    • @geoffpoole9107
      @geoffpoole9107 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      They were born......... on probation.

    • @josephcrawford5979
      @josephcrawford5979 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And he nailed my head to the floor...
      He nailed your head to the floor?!
      Ugh....at first, yeah....

  • @terrythomas1329
    @terrythomas1329 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The "Blind Beggar" is a bit like the SAS - everyone was there.

    • @geoffpoole483
      @geoffpoole483 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      But never saw what happened.

    • @jackmehoffe9372
      @jackmehoffe9372 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Studied dentistry at The Royal London Dental Institute. Walked past it every day. Never went in. Looked like a circus inside looking through the window. 2005 I qualified. It was more like a Somalian fish and shoe market than the old east end. Spit and dark villains with hooks for hands all over.

  • @michaelharrison3602
    @michaelharrison3602 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Their own cousin Ronnie Hart was the most important witness against them so much for old school values

  • @sharona1981
    @sharona1981 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I get chills everytime I see a photo of Ronnie Kray...he was a good looking bloke but his eyes were genuinely frightening. He just looked psychotic. Which of course he was.

    • @jameswarren4107
      @jameswarren4107 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What a creepy comment

    • @sharona1981
      @sharona1981 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@jameswarren4107 What's creepy about it?

  • @carlzeiss4871
    @carlzeiss4871 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    In those days it was a toss up between the police and the criminals as to who was the most bent.

  • @penelopegreene
    @penelopegreene ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "The Piranha Brothers": Monty Python.

  • @no_one01-5
    @no_one01-5 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I don't know them, nor do I know what they did but I do know one thing.. Two-headed snake will eventually bite itself.