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 CZcams! 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  Před 3 lety +124

    "It's like Netflix, but for history documentaries" -----> Sign up to History Hit with code 'timeline' for a huge discount! bit.ly/3rs2w3k

  • @Conspiracy515
    @Conspiracy515 Před 4 lety +1682

    I CAME FOR A SHOOTOUT, A PROPER SHOOTOUT 🤣🤣

  • @momopeep7821
    @momopeep7821 Před 3 lety +175

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

    • @elliottjohnson3713
      @elliottjohnson3713 Před 3 lety +16

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

    • @AwesometownUSA
      @AwesometownUSA Před 2 lety +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 Před 2 lety +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 Před 2 lety

      😂

  • @jamessmithjr6788
    @jamessmithjr6788 Před 4 lety +1292

    "A paranoid schizophrenic walks into a bar."

  • @JamesLaserpimpWalsh
    @JamesLaserpimpWalsh Před 2 lety +107

    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 Před 2 lety +11

      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 Před 2 lety +11

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

    • @sonnytopboy4975
      @sonnytopboy4975 Před 2 lety +2

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

    • @mikeholland1031
      @mikeholland1031 Před 2 lety +2

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

    • @Raewoo333
      @Raewoo333 Před 2 lety +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

  • @sambakka540
    @sambakka540 Před 3 lety +1113

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

  • @alisonstacy2025
    @alisonstacy2025 Před 4 lety +1658

    Legend was amazing Tom Hardy was so good in the part

    • @kristarolleri6442
      @kristarolleri6442 Před 4 lety +27

      Alison Stacy part(s) ;)

    • @escarsegat
      @escarsegat Před 4 lety +15

      sad thing they never mentioned mike tyson

    • @AlmostReady504
      @AlmostReady504 Před 4 lety +41

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

    • @sonnyblack6121
      @sonnyblack6121 Před 4 lety +13

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

    • @shootboxpodcast
      @shootboxpodcast Před 4 lety +12

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

  • @lancedeboyle
    @lancedeboyle Před 4 lety +567

    "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".

  • @DenzelLN936
    @DenzelLN936 Před 3 lety +80

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

    • @chiricahuaapache5132
      @chiricahuaapache5132 Před 2 lety +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 Před 2 lety +3

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

    • @kinny2098
      @kinny2098 Před 2 lety

      Hail CZcams prime 😆 🤣 😂

    • @kinny2098
      @kinny2098 Před 2 lety +1

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

  • @Victory987
    @Victory987 Před 5 lety +393

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

    • @TheTibmeister
      @TheTibmeister Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +2

      Churchil was a war criminal and a racist the shoe fits

    • @gwpeatz6263
      @gwpeatz6263 Před 3 lety +6

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

    • @Flatdays502
      @Flatdays502 Před 3 lety +2

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

    • @stevechristie2569
      @stevechristie2569 Před 3 lety +1

      @Nigel Kent the cops hate Noye he murdered one.

  • @doubletapm4
    @doubletapm4 Před 2 lety +24

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

  • @stephenryan7698
    @stephenryan7698 Před 3 lety +334

    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.

  • @terencemeikle534
    @terencemeikle534 Před rokem +7

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

  • @43jaygee
    @43jaygee Před 5 lety +74

    Just found this on CZcams 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 Před 2 lety +2

      ok

    • @billsamuls7620
      @billsamuls7620 Před rokem

      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

  • @Thenorthsace
    @Thenorthsace Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +30

      You've earn a pound their

    • @JohnKobaRuddy
      @JohnKobaRuddy Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +7

      Funnily enough...

    • @christianmorson3945
      @christianmorson3945 Před 5 lety +15

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

    • @geoffedwards-tb4kp
      @geoffedwards-tb4kp Před 5 lety +1

      @@christianmorson3945 never been a full shilling have you.

  • @MrMarkrobertson
    @MrMarkrobertson Před 2 lety +67

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

    • @OVERLORDD101
      @OVERLORDD101 Před 2 lety +3

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

    • @russcooke5671
      @russcooke5671 Před 2 lety +2

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

    • @gregod806
      @gregod806 Před 2 lety

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

  • @JESUS-LOVED-ANAL
    @JESUS-LOVED-ANAL Před 4 lety +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".

  • @1taxsettlement
    @1taxsettlement Před 4 lety +84

    boy, Maureen Flanagan aged gracefully compared to those geezers!

    • @kylerobinson8636
      @kylerobinson8636 Před 2 lety

      You should see her now

    • @johnniethepom2905
      @johnniethepom2905 Před 2 lety

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

  • @billbrasky7540
    @billbrasky7540 Před rokem +56

    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 Před rokem +2

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

    • @billbrasky7540
      @billbrasky7540 Před rokem +2

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

    • @youngsandwich2792
      @youngsandwich2792 Před rokem +1

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

    • @FreddieShreddieTV
      @FreddieShreddieTV Před rokem

      @@MrSimon1909 chuckle brothers

  • @doonewatts7155
    @doonewatts7155 Před rokem +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 Před rokem

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

    • @manda.watching.YouTube
      @manda.watching.YouTube Před rokem

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

  • @ukgraffitiwalker8846
    @ukgraffitiwalker8846 Před 3 lety +23

    Charlie's hairstyle was scarier than Ron.

  • @MaverickSeventySeven
    @MaverickSeventySeven Před 2 lety +40

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

  • @pygiana16
    @pygiana16 Před 5 lety +12

    Great hairstyle Charlie. Combining the combover and the mullet.

  • @williamkz
    @williamkz Před 2 lety +3

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

  • @wildmansamurai3663
    @wildmansamurai3663 Před rokem

    Great video. Very informative.

  • @mehmetguner5729
    @mehmetguner5729 Před 4 lety +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 Před 3 lety

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

    • @b1gmustang567
      @b1gmustang567 Před 3 lety +27

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

    • @gloriasymes4290
      @gloriasymes4290 Před 3 lety +2

      Put what, Im confused?

    • @worganfreeman2694
      @worganfreeman2694 Před 3 lety +3

      Spit out my drink at that! Love that line!

    • @richyearle007
      @richyearle007 Před 3 lety +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...;)

  • @superbad3591
    @superbad3591 Před 3 lety +33

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

    • @colinbrown5729
      @colinbrown5729 Před 3 lety +1

      Fantastic lol

    • @paulobrien9272
      @paulobrien9272 Před 3 lety

      I will come and find you

    • @briangreen842
      @briangreen842 Před 2 lety +1

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

    • @stephengold1403
      @stephengold1403 Před 2 lety

      Couple off puffs who would off had you

    • @paulobrien1910
      @paulobrien1910 Před 2 lety

      @@stephengold1403 we are coming to find you

  • @mikaelhagstrom9381
    @mikaelhagstrom9381 Před 2 lety +1

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

  • @leemyers8292
    @leemyers8292 Před 3 lety +275

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

    • @CIMAmotor
      @CIMAmotor Před 3 lety +16

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

    • @alundavies8402
      @alundavies8402 Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +2

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

    • @alundavies8402
      @alundavies8402 Před 3 lety +3

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

    • @JamieR1988
      @JamieR1988 Před 3 lety +1

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

  • @fbo4545
    @fbo4545 Před 4 lety +100

    I’m just trying to get to sleep rn

  • @64andyjh
    @64andyjh Před rokem +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 Před rokem

      Fax

    • @Nyx544
      @Nyx544 Před rokem +9

      Tell that to the families of the ppl they killed

    • @64andyjh
      @64andyjh Před rokem +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 Před rokem

      @@Nyx544 or raped

    • @dominic4051
      @dominic4051 Před rokem +2

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

  • @thevanguardsofmanhood8463
    @thevanguardsofmanhood8463 Před 3 lety +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 Před rokem

      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

  • @christopherdale5243
    @christopherdale5243 Před 3 lety +42

    I Love the honesty of Charlie Kray and their Associates.

    • @bradmacarthur3810
      @bradmacarthur3810 Před 2 lety +7

      They already served their time why lie about it.

    • @pipfox7834
      @pipfox7834 Před rokem

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

  • @anngray9171
    @anngray9171 Před rokem +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 Před rokem +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 Před rokem +14

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

    • @suesmith3744
      @suesmith3744 Před rokem +5

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

    • @blueshirtman8875
      @blueshirtman8875 Před rokem +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 Před rokem

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

  • @pretorious700
    @pretorious700 Před 4 lety +28

    Fear is not the same as respect.

    • @DjGo99
      @DjGo99 Před rokem

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

    • @kingian9793
      @kingian9793 Před 7 měsíci

      Fear is the power

  • @ArsLonga1967
    @ArsLonga1967 Před 2 lety +11

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

  • @ThroatSore
    @ThroatSore Před 3 lety +22

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

    • @The_welder_
      @The_welder_ Před rokem

      Your name should be headache , not sore throat.

  • @AnthonyJohnson-qv5nc
    @AnthonyJohnson-qv5nc Před 5 lety +80

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

  • @deborahleone4351
    @deborahleone4351 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety

      Adblock

    • @LUKERs1196
      @LUKERs1196 Před 4 lety

      God bless you too 😇

    • @Lousy_Bastard
      @Lousy_Bastard Před 4 lety

      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 Před 3 lety

      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 Před 2 lety

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

  • @kitkat186
    @kitkat186 Před 3 lety +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 Před 2 lety +14

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

    • @KD400_
      @KD400_ Před 2 lety

      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 Před rokem

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

  • @mystery4763
    @mystery4763 Před měsícem

    Thank you
    Great Documentary

  • @tankc6474
    @tankc6474 Před 6 lety +4

    good documentary 👍

  • @Bennyboy12
    @Bennyboy12 Před 4 lety +144

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

  • @jamesreynolds2867
    @jamesreynolds2867 Před 2 lety +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 Před 2 lety +8

      Quite funny that

    • @glen7318
      @glen7318 Před 2 lety +1

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

    • @jackmehoffe9372
      @jackmehoffe9372 Před 2 lety +2

      @@glen7318 not if you're black

    • @glen7318
      @glen7318 Před 2 lety +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.)

  • @aaroncollard2213
    @aaroncollard2213 Před 2 lety +8

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

  • @serverlan763
    @serverlan763 Před 5 lety +30

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

    • @pdjmay22
      @pdjmay22 Před 5 lety +6

      He was

    • @alexojideagu
      @alexojideagu Před 4 lety +5

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

  • @michaelharrison3602
    @michaelharrison3602 Před 2 lety +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

  • @jcool-br7wm
    @jcool-br7wm Před rokem

    The best documentary out of them all ❤👍

  • @glenaitken3471
    @glenaitken3471 Před 4 lety +56

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

    • @luvmibratt
      @luvmibratt Před 2 lety +1

      Did you really really hurt him..?

  • @judyvalencia3257
    @judyvalencia3257 Před 5 lety +4

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

    • @jamesohara4686
      @jamesohara4686 Před 5 lety

      You have never lived

    • @judyvalencia3257
      @judyvalencia3257 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety

      Thats fair 😊

    • @judyvalencia3257
      @judyvalencia3257 Před 5 lety

      @@jamesohara4686 Thank You.

    • @Liam.2000
      @Liam.2000 Před 3 lety

      You been living under a rock your whole life?

  • @zedata57
    @zedata57 Před 5 lety +165

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

    • @virgoqueen3106
      @virgoqueen3106 Před 3 lety +7

      Me to

    • @mikeholland1031
      @mikeholland1031 Před 2 lety

      @@virgoqueen3106 too

    • @globalwarmhugs7741
      @globalwarmhugs7741 Před 2 lety

      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 Před 2 lety

      Why?

    • @oceanblue3050
      @oceanblue3050 Před rokem

      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.

  • @brendaswampter2307
    @brendaswampter2307 Před 3 lety +39

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

  • @ChicoEscuela
    @ChicoEscuela Před 2 lety +9

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

  • @communistjesus
    @communistjesus Před 4 lety +373

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

  • @michaelfox933
    @michaelfox933 Před 4 lety +134

    Tom Hardy was a great actor to play these guys!

    • @bobcrachit6049
      @bobcrachit6049 Před 3 lety +6

      Apart from he butchered one of the voices

    • @StarzzyJJASD
      @StarzzyJJASD Před 3 lety +3

      The original was better

    • @sgiiprizz7510
      @sgiiprizz7510 Před 3 lety

      @@bobcrachit6049 Ronnies right ?

    • @jackmehoffe9372
      @jackmehoffe9372 Před 2 lety

      @@StarzzyJJASD yes Emma!

    • @darthkek1953
      @darthkek1953 Před 2 lety

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

  • @johnnyp4001
    @johnnyp4001 Před 3 lety +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

  • @elizabethseiden1867
    @elizabethseiden1867 Před 3 lety +7

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

    • @GeorgeFreeman55
      @GeorgeFreeman55 Před 3 lety

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

  • @DJWHEEL1
    @DJWHEEL1 Před 5 lety +666

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

    • @cheymilion3168
      @cheymilion3168 Před 5 lety +11

      @John Brighton Nah watch the one with Ahardy tom

    • @traceymckeever3179
      @traceymckeever3179 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +23

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

    • @traceymckeever3179
      @traceymckeever3179 Před 5 lety +5

      @@davidfitzgerald4683 I agree

    • @standafan4141
      @standafan4141 Před 5 lety +15

      The one with the Kemps is a legend

  • @Ruby-ep8oc
    @Ruby-ep8oc Před 3 lety +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.

  • @ReelSpider
    @ReelSpider Před 3 lety +32

    That's Kray Kray...

  • @makararemmington4412
    @makararemmington4412 Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +31

      But not safe rom the Krays.

    • @JestahYT
      @JestahYT Před 3 lety +3

      Imma like this comment cuz of yo pfp ❤️

    • @verse336
      @verse336 Před 3 lety +5

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

    • @BC_Joshie
      @BC_Joshie Před 3 lety +32

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

    • @daisybelle1025
      @daisybelle1025 Před 2 lety +5

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

  • @99fruitbat
    @99fruitbat Před 6 lety +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 Před 6 lety

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

    • @99fruitbat
      @99fruitbat Před 6 lety +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 Před 6 lety +1

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

  • @sqwidink1
    @sqwidink1 Před 3 lety +3

    Good lads x

  • @MrX-ur4fx
    @MrX-ur4fx Před 3 lety +19

    What about jay’s dads poker tournament

  • @dangerman8625
    @dangerman8625 Před 3 lety +31

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

    • @darrenfry4689
      @darrenfry4689 Před 3 lety +3

      South London boys proper money getters ask fred

    • @brianwilson3952
      @brianwilson3952 Před 3 lety +2

      And they were a lot harder.

    • @connormitchell6446
      @connormitchell6446 Před 2 lety

      @@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 Před 2 lety

      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 Před 2 lety

      @RA CW 😂👍

  • @richardphipps6485
    @richardphipps6485 Před 4 lety +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.

  • @stevelawson7595
    @stevelawson7595 Před 6 lety +83

    Now this the kind of videos I like to watch!

    • @TheMobBoss666
      @TheMobBoss666 Před 6 lety +1

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

    • @TheMobBoss666
      @TheMobBoss666 Před 6 lety

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

    • @JohnDoe-qo4xd
      @JohnDoe-qo4xd Před 6 lety +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 Před 5 lety

      steve Lawson b

    • @bananka4905
      @bananka4905 Před 5 lety

      is that an upside down cross?

  • @mrkipling2201
    @mrkipling2201 Před 3 lety +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 Před 2 lety +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 Před 2 lety

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

    • @monkeytennis8861
      @monkeytennis8861 Před 2 lety

      @@dazzamcg2369 nope

    • @truthtarot7074
      @truthtarot7074 Před 2 lety

      @@dazzamcg2369 Gosh 😳

    • @jamaldee5414
      @jamaldee5414 Před rokem

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

  • @michaelarchangel1163
    @michaelarchangel1163 Před 2 lety +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 !

  • @BritinIsrael
    @BritinIsrael Před 5 lety +85

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

    • @geoffpoole483
      @geoffpoole483 Před 3 lety +12

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

  • @pommiebears
    @pommiebears Před 6 lety +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 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +5

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

    • @pommiebears
      @pommiebears Před 4 lety +3

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

    • @titchlilly1294
      @titchlilly1294 Před 3 lety +2

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

    • @xi-Jinping-1st
      @xi-Jinping-1st Před 3 lety +4

      Cockney accent is nearly dead

  • @bluekarma6849
    @bluekarma6849 Před 2 lety

    Saw the movie,enjoyed this.

  • @johnwalton2019
    @johnwalton2019 Před 2 lety +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 Před 2 lety +5

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

    • @paulkillick527
      @paulkillick527 Před rokem

      Inside the firm was done by Tony lambrianou

  • @NathanChisholm041
    @NathanChisholm041 Před 5 lety +16

    This was not the Martin Short i was expecting!

  • @John-nw8uj
    @John-nw8uj Před 3 lety +3

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

  • @drucilla.e
    @drucilla.e Před 3 lety +20

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

    • @darthkek1953
      @darthkek1953 Před 2 lety

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

    • @binkytube
      @binkytube Před 2 lety +1

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

    • @monkeytennis8861
      @monkeytennis8861 Před 2 lety

      He's awful as them

  • @murielhanby6516
    @murielhanby6516 Před 2 lety +1

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

  • @ssoldie5490
    @ssoldie5490 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety

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

    • @lefty3985
      @lefty3985 Před 4 lety +1

      DieFlabbergast prat

  • @dutchvanhelsing9050
    @dutchvanhelsing9050 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +1

      🅰🅽🅳 .... 🅶🅸🆅🅴 🆄🆂 🅼🅾🆁🅴

    • @owensuckling1446
      @owensuckling1446 Před 4 lety +2

      Thaught you were goi g to say once in band camp

  • @jayfrankie4688
    @jayfrankie4688 Před 3 lety +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.
    😜😜😜😜

  • @rinoanniebern4098
    @rinoanniebern4098 Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety

      Two gold stars and a housepoint for that! 👍

    • @hnqureshi7752
      @hnqureshi7752 Před 3 lety +1

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

    • @mastercommander4535
      @mastercommander4535 Před 3 lety

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

  • @TheMoodyLoners
    @TheMoodyLoners Před 3 lety +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 Před 2 lety +1

      Agreed.

    • @keegangrahame5440
      @keegangrahame5440 Před 2 lety +3

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

    • @fievans9124
      @fievans9124 Před rokem

      Absolutely!

    • @lukeshaw3375
      @lukeshaw3375 Před rokem

      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 Před rokem

      @@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

  • @xeroxre6837
    @xeroxre6837 Před 5 lety +60

    Amazing how delusional people can be to justify benefitting from evil

    • @mikez650
      @mikez650 Před 2 lety

      Greed is an amazing thing.

    • @pipfox7834
      @pipfox7834 Před rokem

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

    • @3socksmorgan485
      @3socksmorgan485 Před rokem +1

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

    • @Dantheman87
      @Dantheman87 Před rokem

      @@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

  • @rossi6113
    @rossi6113 Před rokem

    Excellent.

  • @Sulemankhan-gs3kn
    @Sulemankhan-gs3kn Před 2 lety

    Its so amazing.

  • @glx4909
    @glx4909 Před 5 lety +77

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

    • @JohnSmith-kz8yo
      @JohnSmith-kz8yo Před 4 lety +2

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

    • @3SIXTYPROD
      @3SIXTYPROD Před 4 lety +24

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

    • @Gos1234567
      @Gos1234567 Před 3 lety +2

      They need evidence to lock crims up.

    • @weehudyy
      @weehudyy Před 2 lety +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 Před 2 lety +9

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

  • @andrewcorbett5729
    @andrewcorbett5729 Před 4 lety +7

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

  • @Gill12283
    @Gill12283 Před 3 lety +2

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

  • @rolfdejonge3915
    @rolfdejonge3915 Před 2 lety +1

    Super! Thanks!
    ✌️🤠💥🌟🌀🌐

  • @ilduce5874
    @ilduce5874 Před 2 lety +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.

  • @zpunter4373
    @zpunter4373 Před 2 lety +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.

  • @pacsoulpavon9649
    @pacsoulpavon9649 Před 3 lety +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.

  • @Kimmy234L
    @Kimmy234L Před 7 měsíci +1

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

  • @dookoonu2741
    @dookoonu2741 Před 6 lety +11

    Charlie Kray 0:26 What a Voice!!

  • @homeboy2166
    @homeboy2166 Před 2 lety +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 Před 2 lety +5

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

    • @cinemaparadiso5402
      @cinemaparadiso5402 Před 2 lety +4

      @@debras1503 🤣😂🤣😂

    • @nicholasmcvey5871
      @nicholasmcvey5871 Před 2 lety +29

      Rose tinted glasses mate!

    • @homeboy2166
      @homeboy2166 Před 2 lety +4

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

    • @mp-no9yv
      @mp-no9yv Před 2 lety +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).

  • @ArthurMoore-ii8nn
    @ArthurMoore-ii8nn Před 4 lety +4

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

  • @Cabdrum1
    @Cabdrum1 Před 3 lety +6

    When the Krays ruled the roost there were no adverts on CZcams !

  • @JohnDoe-qo4xd
    @JohnDoe-qo4xd Před 6 lety +20

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

    • @geoffpoole9107
      @geoffpoole9107 Před 5 lety +6

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

    • @josephcrawford5979
      @josephcrawford5979 Před 5 lety +2

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

  • @djdefk2
    @djdefk2 Před 3 lety +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 Před 2 lety +1

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

    • @plshelpmeawkdough
      @plshelpmeawkdough Před 2 lety +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 Před rokem +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?

  • @hafidmostarhfir2245
    @hafidmostarhfir2245 Před 3 lety +6

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