American Couple Reacts: The Kray Twins: England's Most Notorious Gangsters! FIRST TIME REACTION!

[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

We heard about the Kray Twins for all of 2 mins in a video we did well over a year ago. However, we learned virtually NOTHING! So, who were they? Were they really bad criminals? What made them that way? So many questions and all answered here! The United Kingdom's most notorious gangsters! Learn with us if you don't know and if you do, we bet there are things in here that will surprise you too. Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support!

[@waynegray2284]

The Kray twins greatly valued their image and cultivated the media by inviting journalists to take photographs of them with other celebrities at nightclubs or in donating to charity.

[@waynegray2284]

Yes you are right they add dealings with people in new York and somewhere else in USA

[@CRH957]

The tv interview is on KZbin. They were aquited of a trial at the time.

[@space1999]

The east end is super trendy now and gentrified ... high end restaurants and quirky shops and apartments springing up from wonderful victorian buildings that were previously used for less high end purposes....

[@sharroncoppage704]

Jack the hat was not murdered in The Carpenters Arms, he was murdered by Reggie at a private party at a flat in Central London, this is why I am not keen on Simons video as he does give incorrect information on occasions Ronnie Kray eventually was transferred to Broadmoor a secure hospital for the criminally insane where he died in 1995 Reggie was released from prison due to being diagnosed with terminal cancer and died in 2000

[@kellyfairbairn9333]

2 really good films about them. "The krays" starring the kemp brothers who were in spandau ballet. And "Legend "starring Tom Hardy. Both worth a watch. Also mad frankie fraser appears in many films usually playing a gangster

[@DMGamanda]

That film with the kemps was so good. I dont think til then anyone til then had taken them seriously as actors til then. 😊

[@DMGamanda]

Gosh i said ‘til then’ a lot in my comment 😜

[@williamlarge69]

Legend is the best one tom hardy is one hell of an actor

[@Dcs.234]

@@DMGamanda😂😂😂

[@abbafan1972]

I was going to suggest “The Krays” from 1990 with Martin & Gary Kemp.

[@jamesdignanmusic2765]

Have you ever been both terrified and relieved at the same time? My dad ran a small printing company in north London in the 1960s. One day, a disreputable looking guy came in with some printing to be done. Dad did it promptly, and when the guy came back to pick it up, he said: "This looks great. Reggie will be very pleased." Dad didn't sleep for a week.

[@richardmaguire9536]

My dad installed a marble bathroom in a place saarf of the river. It turned out it was Charlie Richardson's, the old man never clicked till he saw his picture in the paper. Dad said he thought they were doing well for a scrap yard.

[@wildwine6400]

Theres a couple of Kray Twins movies. One called "Legend" with Tom Hardy and one from the 90s called "The Krays"

[@oxfamshop]

There was a film about the Kray twins with Kray twins played by Martin Kemp playing Reggie Kray and Gary Kemp playing Ronald Kray . The Kemp Brothers were also pop stars . Their group was spandau ballet

[@simoncanterbury]

I live in Whitstable, a seaside town some 50 miles east of London. Charlie Kray lived here in an area called Chestfield but was jailed for 12 years in 1997 at the age of 70 for cocaine smuggling worth £39million. He always vehemently denied it, saying it was a sting operation organised by the metropolitan police, getting their own back on the Krays name. He died a few years into his sentence.The twins' cousins here have also run some nice pubs around the town and close by. My dad was an Eastender. Everyone feared the twins as they were violent and unpredictable. However, the violence was invariably directed towards their gang competitors. Many respectable people still maintain that the eastend streetsof London were far safer in those days because small time criminals and thugs were too afraid to operate on the Krays turf.

[@alanbatt]

great reaction Natasha and Debbie, the actress Dame Barbara Windsor had an amazing life and well worth a look at

[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

Thanks!

[@pollyparrot9447]

She seemed like a lovely lady and worked regularly right to the end of her life. One of her last roles was the voice of Mallymkun the Dormouse in Tim Burton's Alice movies.

[@cennethadameveson3715]

The photos shown were by David Bailey a very talented photographer and director. A lot of the pictures he took can be found online and includes the Krays along with his fashion shoots. So famous was he, anyone who had an expensive camera or took a long time set up a photo got the question "Who do you think you are, David Bailey?" .

[@Claudiaxyz]

The photos went some way to make their reputations. The reality was unglamorous.

[@SkepticalSteve01]

The young photographer/hero played by David Hemmings in Michaelangelo Antonioni’s 1966 film _Blow Up_ was allegedly based on a combination of real-life photographers David Bailey and Terence Donovan. In the 1960s Britain went through something of a social revolution, with scandals such as the Profumo Affair (in which the then-defence minister was revealed to be sleeping with a beautiful young prostitute who was simultaneously servicing a Soviet Embassy intelligence agent) showing the unreliability and incompetence of Britain’s then upper-class government, compared to the fresher, more youthful energy of the lower-class. Even gangsters like the Kray twins seemed preferable, especially when snapped by a talented young guy like David Bailey. Bailey and Donovan were themselves products of non-aristocratic, untraditional British society, trying to shake off the constraints of the first half of the 20th century. I recommend _Blow Up_ to you for a snapshot of the aspirations of “Swinging London” in the 1960s, and its attempts to get to grips with modern life.

[@mariahoulihan9483]

just like when anyone used to drive a bit too fast, 'who do you think you are? Stirling Moss?'

[@michaelstamper5604]

Politicians consorting with criminals? Who'd have thought it? These days, the criminals ARE the politicians. But that's a different story.

[@JACB006]

Tom Hardy played both of the Kray Twins in the 2015 film titled "Legend" ... Great performance, Good film, you should check it out.

[@GiddeeAunt]

When I worked in Stratford, East London, I used to drink in The Carpenters (21:29 mins in). A small, not very significant looking pub, with no hint of its past on show. The locals still know all about the association with the Krays though.

[@tommyxbones5126]

Carpenters arms in Stratford I remember in the 80's it was 'grab a granny' night every Friday - good laugh in there.

[@hanifleylabi8071]

I had a wee in the Blind Beggar pub yesterday 😂

[@rosalindyates7331]

Another great video. I have known about the Krays for years. I have a book called "The Profession of Violence" by John Pearson which is about their life story, though when it was written I think they were both alive. One story about the Kray's was they were trying to expire their Empire outside of London and came to Manchester where they were met by a prominent Manchester police officer. One story was he was waiting for them at the Midland Hotel in the lobby and handed them a train timetable with the train times back to London another story was he was waiting for them on the station platform and put them back on the train as soon as they arrived. Whether either story was true I don't really know xx

[@richt71]

Hey Ladies You're right the East End of London was mainly for the working class 50 years ago...now a lot of it is considered hip, trendy and with very expensive housing!

[@susangarvey9415]

It's still rough, many areas of London are, I come from South of the river, when we venture back to London we often comment that you can't dress up a turd.

[@richt71]

@@susangarvey9415 You might be right Susan. I've only lived in greater London for the last 12 years but have seen places like Shoreditch, Hackney, Hoxton and Dalston be taken over by high rise, high price apartment buildings!

[@Roz-y2d]

@@susangarvey9415 I’m from south London and couldn’t agree more. It’s never been considered safe and it’s a lot worse now. Thankfully I no longer live there.

[@keithreynolds]

Love David Bailey's photographs from the time. The picture shown is really effective at showing what powerful manipulative people are like. Of course their periods of 'success' without being involved in many killings is a measure of their success and how manipulative/scary they were. My godmother was 'Her Majesty's inspector of schools' in their patch (Tower Hamlets) and had a few stories to tell. I wish I had been old enough when she was alive to hear more of her stories. The Kray's would help people in difficulty... as long as they did as they wanted them to. Look at the crowds that turned out for the funerals.

[@rerenaissance7487]

The photo of them staring down the camera is by 60s star photographer David Bsiley. He's who Austin Powers is based on, when he's taking photos at the start of the film. The tv interview was them as owners of clubs celebrities hung out at. Both films, The Krays (Gary and Martin Kemp) and Legend (Tom Hardy) give entertaining and only slightly embellished accounts of the twins.

[@colin1487]

I loved the tagline for the 1990 movie version, I think they used it on the video rental release cover... 'Mummy's Little Monsters'

[@christurner7711]

I stumbled on your channel and find you ladies very entertaining, Natasha reminds me so much of my sister and her personality and sense of humor are so refreshing while learning my fav subject history

[@seeyouanon2931]

Hi ladies, believe me, this video only scraped the surface of what they were all about. They were also very much mummies boys, also as was mentioned in the video, Ronnie Kray (the paranoid schizophrenic) was openly gay, and Reggie was presumed straight as he married a woman, but his wife committed suicide with an overdose, and it was rumoured that their marriage had not been consummated ,and that Reggie had bouts of bad temper, so was she pushed over the edge and couldn't see a way out other than taking her own life! and it was later revealed that Reggie was bisexual, but when the kray's were teenagers, they kept their sexuality a secret, especially from other gangs, and it was later revealed that they had a sexual relationship with each other to ensure their sexuality was kept a secret, this gives a telling insight into their close connection. Also Ronnie ended up in Broadmoor, a high security hospital for the criminally insane, where he spent the last 14 years of his life, and whilst he was in there he met other like minded people, and one of them was Peter Sutcliffe (the Yorkshire ripper) apparently Ronnie Kray tried hitting on him which didn't go down well with sutcliffe.

[@littlemy1773]

They were also (Ronnie more so from what I’ve read) in to young lads and used to provide them for male politicians 🫤

[@gailcrook2687]

After hitting Ronnie one of his supporters took Sutcliffe ' s eye out

[@seeyouanon2931]

Apparently there was a scuffle between Ian Kay (the satanic worshipper Woolworths killer of south west London) and Sutcliffe ,whereby sutcliffe was stabbed in both eyes by what was believed to be a fibre-tip pen. Kay had apparently been showing signs of violence in the weeks prior to the attack. They had other patients who had been stabbed with the pens. Sutcliffe was nearly garrotted by another inmate Paul Wilson, but was saved by another inmate, Kenneth Erskine (the stockwell strangler) but it was whilst sutcliffe was in parkhurst prison in 1983 when the Glaswegian hardman Jimmy Costello was an inmate also, and Costello slashed sutcliffe across the face leaving 2 permanent scars and 30 stitches, Jimmy Costello was ordered by Ronnie Kray to do the hit.

[@lesart3446]

The long Good Friday is an excellent film worth seeing,it has been claimed it is based on a true story. The key actors are Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren.

[@danielhayton9438]

Boothby was Rector of my University, there was a portrait of him in my hall's library!

[@lyndarichardson4744]

Natasha & Debbie, in the town where I live in Suffolk, the Krays were evacuated as children during WW2, they were lodged with a Methodist minister and his wife who found it difficult to control them. After the war, the rwins donated some boxing equipment to towns youth club. They also bought a large house for their Mother in a nearby village! As far as I know, the Krays didn't cause any trouble locally

[@carolclark8788]

The Krays had a holiday home in our village in Hampshire, they were often seen in our local pubs. An ex neighbour of ours lives there now, he says he's afraid to dig up the outside loo, who knows what he might find!

[@suffolkraider]

I heard that too on a program plus there's supposed to have been a Kray hideout near Acle in Norfolk where the gardening doesn't get dug too deep.

[@colinsetford4179]

The famous photograph of the twins was taken by a very well known photographer named David Bailey, think Austin Powers of a swinging 60s London. All famous people of the time went to Bailey for the publicity portraits.

[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

Thank you!

[@planekrazy1795]

The picture of them that you thought was professionally taken most certainly was. It was taken by the world famous and iconic 60s fashion Photographer David Bailey CBE. At the time they were the darlings of the rich and famous because of the clubs and at the time it was seen as cool to be associated with them, hence the TV appearance.

[@chrisnagle2902]

Interesting watch girls. I was brought up in the East End of London. Many years after this episode of London's history. Thank you!

[@stephenkayll5241]

@ 9.26 Think the Kingsman pub scene

[@lucylawson-paul9622]

The Kray Twins had one of their portrait photographs taken by the photographer David Bailey ( who came to prominence during the 1960s). Bailey also took the wedding photos of Reggie and his first wife , Frances Shea ( who later died of a drug overdose).

[@michelletrudgill4573]

That was a great reaction video girlies. Living near by we grew up knowing all about the Kray twins. If you get a chance watch the film with the Kemp brothers playing the Krays or Tom Hardy who plays both parts two very good parts. If I remember correctly they were locked up in the Tower of London being the last prisoners to be there. Well done girlies another great video. ❤

[@karlpeart1752]

Very fascinating video great content as always. Only thing is I found the music very distracting could hardly hear what he was saying but know ty his was probably beyond your control

[@anthonypope8429]

Hi girls great video loved the history on them i think there is a book out on the krays there is a longer documentary on about the krays thats good

[@enemde3025]

The TV interview is from LONDON CRIME TV. The photo was taken by renowned photographer DAVID BAILEY.

[@ZoeBrain]

The Monty Python sketch about Doug and Dinsdale Piranha is the best description of them.

[@jamesdignanmusic2765]

They were also an inspiration for Alexei Sayle's Moss brothers in "Didn't You Kill My Brother?"

[@lucylawson-paul9622]

There is a very quick clip of the twins being interviewed on television about their lives/ club activities on KZbin.

[@davemorrison3705]

David Bailey took the photo of the krays. Was a famous 60s celeb photographer.

[@jenm04]

Very informative, i really enjoyed it this, thankyou 🙂

[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

Thank you so much for watching ❤️

[@stingray4real]

The movie Sparrows Can't Sing which starred Barbara Windsor. The nightclub scene was filmed at the club owned by the Kray twins.

[@andrewcoates6641]

When the brothers were doing their national service and beat up their Sergeant and went home to see their mother, their barracks were in a part of the Tower of London. As a result once they were arrested their initial detention was actually in the cells in the Tower before being transferred to a military prison, making them some of the last prisoners to be held in the Tower of London before it was downgraded from a prison to a combined museum and a Royal palace.

[@malcolmsleight9334]

They are recognized as the last "official" prisoners of the Tower.

[@vanessacare2615]

Great video again i did know about one of them had a relationship with dame Barbara Windsor she is a legend R.I.P. thank you for the great videos

[@daviddalby8537]

The photograph is a famous picture by David Bailey.

[@alisonrodger3360]

Ronnie's funeral procession went past my flat on the way to the cemetery, full on Eastend funeral with horse drawn carriage. Surprisingly, to me, well attended. Although a large part of the old East End still saw them as sort of 'folk heroes' when they died. Only went after their own, didn't hurt civilians etc. I doubt they'd recognise much of their 'manor' now, most of it's been gentrified. I mean they built the Olympic Stadium car park on my first place in East London. The Docklands would be unrecognisable to them now, although somewhat ironically a bunch of that was financed through a huge robbery, check out the Brinks Mat gold theft,

[@suffolkraider]

I agree parts of London are unrecognisable now. I was on a bus with a mate of mine a few years back, upstairs as you do. I kept looking and where you see trendy flats etc I was saying "OOO that was a dry goods warehouse... that's the cold store I used to go to" Many memories

[@colinglen4505]

I was born and brought up in Bow, which is close to where they were born. I worked in the French Connection warehouse ( Fairfield rd, Bow ) with Lennie Hamilton ( jewel Thief ) who was tortured by Ronnie with a hot poker.

[@allanfarran364]

Got to love these two ladies, so natural

[@s.wilson5675]

Great reaction ladies. Next stop should be the Essex Boys and the Hunt Syndicate.

[@sandywatson]

The Kemp brothers film "The Krays" (1990) feels dated now, but Tom Hardy playing both twins in "Legend" (2015) is a pretty incredible performance. As suggested by others here though, both films are defo worth a watch as they show different aspects of the story.

[@AnOldEnglishBloke]

Tom Hardy is on another level. His portrayal of Bronson was intense.

[@sophiejones8813]

Tom Hardy was brilliant as Charles Bronson but cringingly bad in Legend , sounded like Alan Partridge !

[@samsprrr3548]

I prefer the kemps in the 1990 version.

[@sharonhomer2793]

The kemp Brothers from spandau ballet played the krays personally my favourite film about the Krays called The Krays.

[@Mrmayhembsc]

Use the K button on KZbin to pause videos. It's a nice little feature. (solving the space bar issue)

[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

Thanks! Hopefully it will work until we get a new keyboard

[@tempsitch5632]

I worked in one of their old pubs in the mid 90’s. There were secret hallways in the walls.

[@Pauline-zs6oo]

I learnt something as I have never heard of them. Thank you for enlightening me 👍

[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

Thank you for watching Pauline!!

[@juliethompson9196]

My dad was from the East End and regularly drank with them , they were glorified and feared in equal measure. I live in Essex and my parents moved from the East End to Southend on Sea ( in Essex ) in the early 50s . There is a pub in Southend on the sea front called the Cornocopia, it hasn’t changed from the 50s and is still the same today , it’s a tiny pub but the Krays were regulars . They were both crazy and scary you didn’t mess with them . I’m 65 and still have an Eastend accent . As a side note I would love you two to do a Cockney rhyming slang video . That would be hilarious, Up The Apples and Pears . Love you both xxx

[@ric66fb]

My favourite is 'The Trouble And Strife'.

[@stephensmith4480]

The killing of Jack The Hat Mcvitie was only one of three instances in the history of British Law were someone has been found guilty of Murder without a Body being found. what it didn't tell you in the video is that the rest of The London Underworld were getting so tired of their behaviour, they had gotten too big for their Boots and were seen as a pair of loose Cannons. The heads of a number of other gangs got together, mainly The Richardson gang who were from across the other side of The River Thames and a joint decision was taken to remove them from the scene, so to speak. It was only the fact that they got sent to prison that saved their lives. The filmed interview with other members of the various gangs is here on YT. I think it was done by Fred Dineage.

[@nickname6747]

75K subscribers now - wow! Thanks for uploading, ladies.

[@enkisdaughter4795]

Natasha, you mentioned they looked as though they could have had Italian ancestry. I’ve just looked it up online and their ancestry was Irish and Jewish. Their father, Charles Snr, was of Irish descent from the Shoreditch area of London and their mother, Violet, was of Jewish descent hailing from Bethnal Green.

[@rnw2739]

All that is irrelevant. They were both English and a vague, distant relative that may have riverdanced occasionally or had an obsession with spuds does not alter a thing.

[@clivechandler8817]

Watch some of the carry on movies. Carry on camping with Sid James, Bernard Bresslaw, Joan Sims and Barbara Windsor and carry on cruising with my favourite Kenneth Connor. Carry on follow that camel with Phil Silvers is also a good one.

[@caz0687]

Hi, beautiful ladies, thank you for another good video. IM from the UK you should find the documentary on the kray brothers. It gives you a lot more information. And what's happened to them when they were in prison

[@dougcollins9980]

In 1966 Ronnie shot a man in the Blind Beggar pub in Whitechapel. Two years later (Autumn of 1968) I started secondary school (age 11) just over a mile from the site of this shooting. I travelled in from about 6 miles away - right on the edge of London - and at the time I knew nothing about the Krays. The Krays were both arrested in May 1968 - and in March 1969 both were sentenced to life imprisonment. I'm sure my father was aware how close my school was to the Krays area of influence but he never said anything to me.

[@jeffertonxv88ba]

Really interesting vid Natasha and debbie saw the movie with Tom hardy this helps understand the movie better

[@lindablackley4916]

WELCOME BACK ON KZbin , WOW NEW QUITE ALOT OF THIS COOL , HOPE YOU AN DEBBIE HAD A GREAT TIME CELEBRATING YOUR 20TH WED ANNIVERSARY ,LOVED YOU RENEWING YOUR VOWES , VERY ROMANTIC 💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💓💓💓💓💓💓❤❤❤💘

[@paulw314]

Jellied eels are southern. I've never and never will eat them. I'm northern! Try black pudding! Haha Congratulations on your anniversary btw. I'd never have guessed you were a couple! ❤❤

[@janewalker3921]

Jellies eels are more East London .

[@paulw314]

@@janewalker3921 really? I have family in London but never been offered jellied eels

[@laurabambam5342]

Ronnie's favourite word from childhood was crocodile. I have no idea why I always remembered that fact. They also broke frank Mitchell , the mad axeman out of prison

[@goodshipkaraboudjan]

I've slightly warmed to Simon after really not liking his content for a while but you do show the best of him! I ended up watching his video on Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and for once he was accurate and bang on about an aviation and national hero.

[@nita952]

Great video as usual. Make sure you watch both films. Kemp brothers and tom hardy. Totally agree that you need to watch peaky blinders ❤

[@junecaffyn357]

I watched a drama years ago - sorry forgot the title of it but was mainly about Reggie’s wife Fran, it showed her growing concerns and her depression of her husband’s violent behaviour; she had a good upbringing, her parents worried about her and rightly so as she sadly killed herself and Reggie organised a grand funeral for his wife and was devastated by her death. She was very beautiful and dressed wonderfully and seemed a nice kind lady.

[@dnf-dead]

Really enjoying this video 😊

[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

Thank you!!

[@nigelbundy4008]

I belong to a club which was having monthly meetings in a pub in White Chapel. It was the weekend of the Queue after the Queens death and wanting to avoid the crowds used a circular route to reach Whitechapel. This meant that I used Whitechapel underground station. Outside their was a street market, and everyone looked quite poor. 100 to 200 yards there were tall modern buildings and people walking around with Latte's in their hands. This is still Whitechapel! The gentrification of London carries on a frantic pace.

[@vanburger]

The Tom Hardy Movie "Legend" is an in incredible movie where Tom plays both Twins.

[@Anniem97]

Leaky Blinders is brilliant. Violent, but brilliant!

[@stingray4real]

Barbara Windsor appeared in the movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

[@scottsmith1198]

The film you see in the video is from a interview about the krays beating a case in the 1960s about cl b laws

[@Heather.C-kiwi-ninja]

I had not heard of the Kray Twins before, so I learnt a lot from watching this video. Thanks so much for all your time, thought and energy that goes into making these reaction videos. Love to you both ❤❤

[@williamronneywilliams2639]

The film in which Tom Hardy played both Ronnie and Reggie Kray was called "LEGEND" I hope you get the opportunity to watch it, and yes it's violent.

[@lunacougar]

The famous photo was done by celebrity photographer David Bailey, many famous pictures from the 60's are his work.

[@GaryNoone-jz3mq]

Cones are cool. You can put all sorts of great food in them.

[@kimberleydouglas9741]

The was a film called the kays it starred Gary and Martin kemp it came out in the 90s way before the Tom Hardy film I would say watch them both

[@nicolad8822]

I hate this sort of idolisation of murderers, thieves and bullies.

[@TheRealRodent]

My mum knew the Krays. Her parents owned a roadside truck stop which late became a Little Chef on the London Ringroad... not sure what it is these days... probably a Costa Coffee. The Twins often came in for tea and a cooked breakfast with some of their boys and would call my mum "Little T". She also knew actors Barbara Windsor, David Essex and Adam Faith as they would also stop at the truck stop on their way in and out of London. My mum says they were always polite, never swore while talking to her or her parents, always said "please" and "thank you" and would always pay extra for their breakfasts and cuppas, regardless of the actual price.

[@mattbentley9270]

I live just 5 miles from Broadmoor, we have sirens every Monday at 10 am to practice in case people escape, scary scary people incasterated in there !!! just had a 250m rebuild and new entrance but still only 120 odd scary scary men

[@xchrisjx99]

Do some investigating into “Viv Grahame” of Newcastle!

[@grahamwalker6395]

The photo you asked about was taken by David Bailey in 1965. He is a famous photographer who regularly took pictures of the royals and other prominent people, worked for Vogue etc.. Just as a foot note, Bobby Ramsey lived over the road from me and my father convinced him to go straight and get in to acting.

[@gailcrook2687]

They had a holiday home not far from me in Suffolk, the local kids loved them as they used to organise and pay for events

[@siangoodwin867]

You need to look at the British phenomenon which are Carry On films.

[@TheNosnets]

16:30 my dad has a photo of me and my brother at his wedding that he refers to as The Kray Twins because we look just as serious as Ronnie and Reggie

[@DebPa10162]

They say that the hat Mcvitie is under an a road that was being built at that time.

[@rjflores438]

Even though it is heavily gentrified, The Eastern Districts and boroughs if London like Tower Hamlets, Newham and Hackney have always had higher poverty rates than most other parts of London, but what we see now is deprived council estates(UK housing projects).next to very expensive 800k houses.

[@volkamar]

They were also full on celebrity's and friends with rockstars and filmstars from both the UK and the US

[@raythomas4812]

I'm from an East end family ( Mile End, Stratford, Poplar and Bow ) With Grandparents in East Ham and Custom House. It was pretty rough back in the 60s but started to improve from the 70s onwards,I went back there a few weeks ago and did not recognise the area , funnily enough I could not afford to live there now ...great video

[@martinwebb1681]

Amazing how it has all changed, from docks/factories and people in poverty to yuppies in extortionately priced luxury properties. Once the docks and factories were gone the East End was changed beyond recognition.

[@raythomas4812]

@@martinwebb1681 indeed, The hospital where my sisters and brother were born ( St Andrews -Bromley by bow ) is now a housing complex ( with a Gym if you please ! )

[@martinwebb1681]

@@raythomas4812 ... Yes, I know very sad indeed. I also was born in St Andrews hospital.

[@raythomas4812]

@@martinwebb1681 small world..( for some reason I was born in Mile End hospital )- rumour has it mum was on the 8 bus going to the Roman - and went into labour )) I remember , when we used the tube from Bromley by bow - we had to walk a long path past the Hospital.

[@martinwebb1681]

@@raythomas4812 ... I used to walk past the Mile End hospital on the way to school each day, I lived at Bow but went to school in Stepney. I'd sometimes take the tube or catch the 25 bus, but more often it was quicker to walk as you could be waiting forever for a bus, and it was still quite a walk to school from the tube station if you took the train. As you say it's a small world.

[@alchristie5112]

According to the movie Legend the Krays allied with the mafia when gambling was legalised in Britain in the 1960s.

[@wayne-cz2lm]

I grew up in east london originally from london fields ,Bethnal green, and Dalston and even as a kid back then it was pretty poor. It was run down with plenty of derelict buildings to play in and not much money. Houses weren't worth much and wouldn't sell and family's were trying to get out ! 50yrs later you wouldn't get much change from £2 million for a 3/4 bed house ! its extremely multicultural now and full of wealthy gentrified fancy coffee drinking city workers all wanting a short trip to work, its sad for me to say that the real eastend that i remember which holds some great memories has lost its identity ! Real east end familys with that famous cockney accent gone ! Real east end chippy's gone ! old east end pubs gone ! Broadway market gone ! Cookes pie n mash gone ! Jellied eel stalls all gone ! Sad 😢

[@smi7leee]

My family knew someone murdered by the Kray's. People make them out to be these heroes, when actually they were two psychopaths who were violent killers.

[@tone4507]

"They nailed my head to the floor!" - Vince Snetterton-Lewis. (ref - Monty Python, The Piranha Brothers sketch)

[@geoffpoole483]

Well, you had transgressed the unwritten law.

[@jamesdignanmusic2765]

"He was a cruel man, but fair."

[@malcolmnash6023]

I don't know if you can still get them, but Reg Kray wrote two books. "Born Fighter" the inside story of the rise and fall of the Kray twins, and "Villains We Have Known" which is a who's who of London villainy of their time, and offers a good insight to the mindset of these guys...Scary as you noted. Two of the villains mentioned were Jimmy and Johnny Nash. Given their origin of the Angel and Islington area, and my paternal grandfather being born in Bermondsey, the family living on the Old Kent Road just a mile or so South East of them. I have wondered if there's a historical connection by accident of birth. The books were published by Arrow Books, in 1991/1996, out of Random House. I have them along with the autobiographies of Freddie Foreman, and both Richardson brothers. A fascinating time in both of our countries. You guys had the Kennedys, LBJ, the Mafia, CIA, and FBI things going on, Cuba, and all of the assassinations which changed the political landscape over there. Anyway, thought you'd might be interested. Have fun, be well.

[@colinhetherington1396]

I never used to like you guys, but i have deffo warmed to you. You`re both nice :)

[@Mp-hs2hi]

You have to see the carry on films 😂

[@highpath4776]

Dont forget in the 1950s criminality included the likes of "out of hours" drinking, and off course betting , these would later be more regulated and legalised , the main income was "security" of venues in the licenced trade (boozers) / shops and so on. In the 1980s I worked down the road from where the council flat where their mum had lived. It was still "interesting" times.

[@teejai5291]

Watch 'Legend' starring Tom Hardy as both of the Kray twins. Brilliant film.

[@Sradders]

The background music is so intrusive in this video..

[@JackD0506]

Barbra Windsor who was in a relationship with Charlie Kray is an east end legend it mentioned the carry on films but she’s most famous for playing Peggy Mitchell in Eastenders a famous soap opera in Britain sadly she died a couple years ago from Alzheimer’s x

[@wolfie35p]

You should watch the movie, The Krays, from 1990, starring Gary and Martin Kemp, two of the artists from the British pop group Spandau Ballet. This is the best adaption about the Krays, in my eyes.

[@ric66fb]

I'm amazed that Freddie Foreman wasn't mentioned in this video. He was once described as 'The Godfather Of British Crime'. One incident transpired when the Krays broke Frank Mitchell, also known as "The Mad Axeman", out of Dartmoor Prison. They put him up in a flat but he quickly became a liability and they decided he needed to 'Disappear'. In his 1996 autobiography 'Respect', Foreman admitted to shooting Mitchell while in the back of a van while under the pretence of moving him to a safehouse in the country, as a favour to the Krays. Both the Krays and foreman were charged for this murder but were acquitted due to lack of evidence. Foreman couldn't be rearrested for the murder following his autobiography as under British law you can't be tried for the same crime twice. Natasha & Debbie ... May I suggest this video ... it'll give you far more info on the subject than this one. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gmSpaYlvgbiVi6M

[@jackiehughes1930]

Please, please come back Im from the Uk 🇬🇧 I love you young ladies, absolutely love you both u have so much respect for our country. Az we are very proud country. I would definitely miss you xxx

[@lilzeus2073]

It's the first ever you tube video that I had to stop and rewind within 20 seconds because I was laughing so hard 😂😂😂😂