Experience the CRIMINAL life of a Victorian era London gangster (FULL VERSION)

Have you ever wanted to experience what life was like for a gangster during London's Victorian era of the 1850s and 1860s? This video covers your life from birth in Ireland to immigration to Whitechapel, one of the crime infested and poor parts of London's darker and seedier underbelly.
Music: Epidemicsound
Sources:
"The Good Old Days: Crime, M*rder and Mayhem in Victorian London" - Gilda O'Neill
"The London Underworld in the Victorian Period" - Henry Mayhew and others
"Victorian City - Everyday Life in Dicken's London" - Judith Flanders
"Underworld London" - Catharine Arnold
"Bullion Robbery During the Victorian Era Unsolved" From the amazingly researched Geri Walton: www.geriwalton...
Inspiration from "The Wild Boys of London" and so many of my favourite British gangster movies or tv shows

[@YoreHistory]

Here is the full version. Hope you enjoy! As always characters are a mix of fiction and fact. Fiction for the main character and some supporting characters...fact for events like the Baum and Sons Heist...which to this day...remains unresolved. How many easter eggs did you spot?! Let me know below :) Cheers all. LIKE AND COMMENT IF YOU CAN IT HELPS THE ALGORITHM AND ME!! :)

[@ridiboo7738]

Kinda like Peaky Blinders?

[@TheGeneral_LUFC]

I'm from Ireland. Look forward to seeing this

[@user-rj3qr2js8k]

Oliver Twist was in there lol. Well written and read mate, oi oi from old London Town me olde China

[@mousemd]

My what a change. I grew up in the 60s and 70s. My father did the shopping. Until the children got old enough. Then it occasionally became a family affair

[@gavincouzens8518]

An old tea chest for the dinner table ❤

[@Dingomush]

This was my first time of experiencing your channel, and holy crap! Why are you not in the several millions of subscribers? This is absolute GOLD! I am blown away by this story….. Thank You!…

[@YoreHistory]

Cheers, thanks for watching!

[@user-rj3qr2js8k]

Was thinking the same thing, I've just subbed of course

[@LloydCJ-eu3yg]

This hits so close to home. My great-grandfather and great-grandfather went through this famine. They left for Wales and then my "clan" dispersed throughout the world. From America, Canada, Australia and even to South Africa (where I reside now). Anywhere but England. The stories my grandparents told me, which stuck in my mind up and until today, are horrible. Makes me grateful for what I have.

[@YoreHistory]

Aye I can imagine. My Dutch grandparents lived through WWII and the great Dutch Hunger winter not the same but similar. Our ancestors went through a lot so we could be where we are...agreed :) Thanks for watching. Cheers.

[@mikehipps1015]

What's with the quotations? Clansmen are proud of our roots. I mean no harm. Only to inspire.

[@LloydCJ-eu3yg]

@@mikehipps1015 True very true!! Although I am 3rd generation Irish, I'm bloody proud of my heritage!

[@LloydCJ-eu3yg]

@@YoreHistory Excellent documentary as always 👌👍

[@DannyBuster75]

Cork. And ireland will always have open arms for its people to come home.

[@blameusa7082]

Those crappy houses you discribe are the same ones we still have, and they will charge you £500,000 for one! no change!

[@YoreHistory]

Aye :( It's same here in Vancouver, BC...we have dumps going for 1 million +

[@michaelharrison3602]

It's amazing I grew up in Whitechapel and the elephant and castle. When I look in the windows of estate agents I see adverts for what were slum houses selling for up to a million pounds It's hard to believe that a house in the elephant and castle can sell for that money

[@michaelharrison3602]

Area diving was still going on in the fifties but it was frowned on as it was robbing your own. The wealthy were considered fair game but you didn't steal of people who had less than you.after WW11 This loyalty to your own class became a code 😅

[@stevengayler8447]

Thank the WEF and their stooges

[@KHK001]

Thanks for your hard work as always!

[@YoreHistory]

And thanks for watching! :)

[@Migelsankhezzzzz]

Third video of your content I’ve watched and you’ve earned my subscription my friend. Well done ❤

[@flamingsunshine]

Wow this was amazing to listen to, I was kept on the end of my seat the whole time, absolutely loved it, this is the first time I've watched one of your videos, keep up the awesome work, you're amazing 😊👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@YoreHistory]

Thanks so much for the kind words. There are other videos in this format as well if you enjoy the style. Either way, thanks for watching!

[@flamingsunshine]

@YoreHistory you're welcome, keep up the amazing work, I will definitely look at more of your content😊

[@280SE]

Been waiting for this, then completely miss it by 9 days. And it’s where I live! Great work as always 🙏

[@YoreHistory]

Cheers and thanks! :)

[@amandapittar9398]

It’s a testament to parental and mother love that babies survived at all. Logically, these women had NOTHING to give their babies, but found the energy to feed & clothe them. Astounding. The sensible thing to do would have been to let them “quietly fade away”, but no, they fiercely protected them. We are the descendants of these people. The survivors. Interesting.

[@YoreHistory]

That is how I look at it too...each of us now is around due to the survival of our ancestors. Imagine all those full/short unique lives they lived just like us.

[@elsiemarina2572]

I saw another documentary about how how life was so hard and how some mothers had no choice but to let their babies "fade away". So unbearably sad.

[@YoreHistory]

@@elsiemarina2572 It was :(

[@michaelharrison3602]

Ronnie Barker,Ronnie Corbett Basil,Fawlty,Edmund black adder sounds like a list of 70s TV comedians 😂

[@user-nr9pl4ir4o]

The character called Ronnie Barker actually looks like Ronny Barker

[@DocZ82]

A job well done!! Been looking for something unique, professionally made and generally just worth the 41 mins of my life and this is it! It's not worth watching if you don't learn something new..

[@jacobhalczak]

I love the Blackadder references. Fantastic work!

[@YoreHistory]

Cheers, thanks for watching!

[@lindacarlton3154]

I'll never forget my fiance, British whose Mum is from Ireland, asking his Mum during the 1960's, why some shops had signs in front that read "no dogs, no blacks and no Irish". I pray for this world. It's everywhere. ❤️🙏❤️🙏

[@dudeudontknow341]

The potato “famine” was half famine half genocide of the Irish. The British willing gave food to the Protestant Irish but if you were a Catholic you starved. The Irish who converted to get food were often referred to as “Soup takers”.

[@tatarcavalry2342]

Brits closed their eyes to what's happening and even blocked help sent by others and Ottomans sent help from that far lol

[@ywoulduchoosetousethis]

​@@tatarcavalry2342u should read A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift. Even tho I had read of the Irish horror all of my life. Nothing prepared me for Swift's essay.

[@DannyBuster75]

In regards to the first 5 seconds of the video. We would have had enough food but the British took and exported all to other foods such as meats. We had enough food in cork to feed the whole country but it was stored in the port to be exported under guard. Of course the blight did hurt the potatoes but they were not the only food on the island. It was a man made genocide of my people that nobody has ever felt bad for doing to us.

[@YoreHistory]

No, that's why I mentioned all crops. Agreed, it was horrible, and the British landlords had blood on their hands.

[@DannyBuster75]

Good video tho. I enjoyed it.

[@user-hf4ix6ky9f]

Iam so sorry for the evil of man.. all shit .. it’s never about race religion colour or where your from .. it’s always about the money..

[@gavinmarks2302]

What a hell of a tail you told!!! I might ask that you perform my eulogy..... I'll sound great.. although I'm Irish Catholic and as those who know , they know!!! We're bastards while we're alive and saints once we're dead... Great video, great job, really enjoyed it...

[@YoreHistory]

Cheers, glad you enjoyed! Thanks for watching!

[@michaelharrison3602]

Interesting you say that. I've just returned from the funeral of an Irish Catholic friend, the priest went on about what a good Catholic he was 😅 I'd known him for50 years and never once did I know him too go to church he had nothing but contemporary for the church and considered priests to 41 be drunks and paedophiles but as you say after his death he was a Saint in the years I knew him he was a really great guy but to the church g and the law he was a bad man just shows the incredible hypocrisy of the church😂

[@YoreHistory]

@@michaelharrison3602 Haha indeed. Great story! Cheers.

[@michelodonnell7240]

Absolutely brilliant I have really enjoyed watching this video and have learnt so much about this lesser known side of our social history ❤

[@YoreHistory]

Cheers and thanks for watching!

[@jamestown8398]

I hope we get a sequel, looking at the London gangster's new life in America.

[@YoreHistory]

Haha that is the plan. Just finishing up Roman Envoy part 3...then Sassanid then may revisit the sequel :D I will say he arrives at a "very" interesting time in New York :)

[@SuperDiscoDJ]

Thank you so much for this piece of Art! This connects with me on another level than all other historic videos i‘ve seen before. You truly have a talent in Storytelling and in making history interesting. I wish that more people would see it, it‘s truly a shame.. May the future hold as much success for you as your previous videos did :)

[@YoreHistory]

As long as those like you find it, it will grow...videos like this are slow burners. Took my Roman video 2 years to get traction. Cheers and thx for the words of support.

[@Kaget0ra]

Sweet!! Been looking forward to this.

[@marybarratt2649]

Man’s inhumanity to man. Thank you for an informative video. Thank you to those who tried to change conditions for the better.

[@thomcm12]

These are cool :D Good job man!

[@jamesbowring9528]

Basil Fawtless! lol and Baldrick and Edmund Black the Adder. I feel like I have missed more references now. Ronnie Corbett or Corby....this is brilliant

[@G02372]

I’m from London, Whitechapel hasn’t changed much 😂

[@halsinden]

loving the names of the teams being british comedy greats: basil 'faultless' fawlty, ronnie corbett...

[@YoreHistory]

Haha as a Canadian Gen X'er I grew up with British TV here and these were all shows I watched :) "On the Buses", "The Two Ronnies", "Benny Hill", "Fawlty Towers" etc etc :) Cheers.

[@michaelharrison3602]

I was expecting a Mr bean and bunny Hill to sppear at any time.😂

[@YoreHistory]

@@michaelharrison3602 Haha for another video :)

[@michaelharrison3602]

Don't forget Baldrick😅

[@michaelharrison3602]

The Lambeth boys hardly ventured across the river to canary wharf.later in the early 20th century Surrey docks opened on the south side of the river this attracted crooks from Bermondsey and Lambeth

[@scotth2014]

Damn. Great storytelling. Thank you for making this video.

[@ridiboo7738]

Wow. Great narration and visual clips. The voice, is soothing yet educating. 😅 yikes If that makes sense? Thank u for the video.

[@YoreHistory]

Cheers and thanks for watching!

[@trishmcl9055]

Good story telling 😊

[@michaelharrison3602]

The elephant and castle gang and the Lambeth boys operated South of the Thames the monkeys and the Whitechapel gans were in the east end on the north side. This was still going on in the 1960s with the Krays, Dixons and Nashes on the north side and the Richardsons Frank Fraser and Freddy Foreman onn the South

[@j.dunlop8295]

Most countries had revolution, because of disparity of poor and wealthy! England avoided it by shipping poor to colonies and off to soldier, about the Empire!😅

[@user-ly6pl5ot9m]

Dear author of the channel, i'm still hoping that someday you'll made a "your life as a plantation slave, soldier and civic activist in Civil War era USA" series. Thank you! P.S. Frederick Douglass's and Harriet Tubman's memoirs will be excellent starting points on a possible investigation of yours.

[@reeseprince8]

Sometimes its good to look back on how bad it was to realise how good we have it now,even though its still a struggle its not as bad as this

[@hassanabdulsalam1000]

Amazing as always Welcome back

[@mikehipps1015]

I'd like to know the man that has made these videos. They're awesome and unique.

[@YoreHistory]

Cheers and glad you like them!

[@mikehipps1015]

Yo!!! So looking forward to this!!

[@papabear1385]

Why do I feel like this is the plot of the next assassin's creed game?

[@StellaConnoisseur]

I'm from Elephant and Castle, born and bred. Used to go up West End "dipping" when I was a chavvie (youngster) funny how the slang is mostly the same.

[@nigelhamilton815]

Richest country in the world, unless you were poor.!!

[@TingTingalingy]

The poor in America are wealthier than the poor around the world. Even the poor have clean drinking water and air conditioning in overwhelming majority of situations

[@michaelharrison3602]

Always the way😅

[@Merble]

@@TingTingalingy This is true of most developed nations. It doesn't change the nonsense that is the top 1% just sitting on enough capital to solve many of the world's woes to make sure them and their children stay the top 1%.

[@TingTingalingy]

@@Merble "the 1%" cry more, poor.

[@nicolaclark4234]

This is the story of my great,great grandparents...on my Mother's side ( Nan) They left Cork and ended up in Whitechapel...they lived in a Court, probably with their Horse!

[@keithgray4891]

Johnathan Wilde, born in Wolverhampton and re-located to London and took over the London underworld.. he was a pimp and vagabond. Catherine Eddows , also from Wolverhampton and a victim of Jack the Ripper, was one of Mr wildes working girls.. I have done extensive research on this subject and wrote a book, called back in the day sacrifice available on Amazon by Tony Gray.. it would be fitting for the orator to cover the life and times of the gangster, Johnathan Wilde..

[@nickgov66]

I hope that your book had a good proof reader, your grammar and syntax are all over the place, so many errors that I stopped bothering to count after ten. 41:20

[@grendelgrendelsson5493]

Jonathan Wild or Wilde was hanged in 1725. Catherine Eddowes died in 1888. How does your book explain this discrepancy?

[@lucafatooga2886]

Just love these narratives so much.

[@YoreHistory]

Cheers, thanks for watching. Roman Envoy part 2 will be up in a week.

[@paraguaymike5159]

Excellent! Thank you for your efforts

[@shaifunnessa7816]

Maratha empire Shivaji history please make video

[@Kroggnagch]

Wow. Very cool. I thoroughly enjoyed this.

[@evanbluemer5119]

great episode, hopefully this isnt the end of the story

[@verablexitasap858]

In modern days this life and treatment in childhoods just breeds serial killers😮

[@michaelharrison3602]

Jt wwas like this for the poor in most cities:new york Liverpool or Paris many of the people born there managed to survive two world wars they says what doesn't kill you makes you stronger"

[@Janus-wt8ki]

Basil Fawlty , Ronnie Barker Ronnie Corbett ….busted…😂. still fella very well put together fella well done

[@michaelharrison3602]

The New cut didn't exist in victorianan times. It was built as a short cut between London Bridge and Westminster Bridge. It wwas lined with market stalls and carried on past Westminster Bridge to Lambeth high street and Lambeth walk

[@YoreHistory]

Late Victorian England they did. I had to shift some times around a bit for the fictional aspects.

[@angrypossumsx1259]

Basil Faultless ? The optimistically successful ancestor of a Torquay hotel manager once described by his wife as a “Brilliantine stick insect”

[@YoreHistory]

LOL...one of my favourite shows of all time...a bit of homage :D

[@DJRonnieG]

Found the time traveler at 22:08, she's _clearly_ holding a smartphone. [/s I'm just pulling your leg.]

[@YoreHistory]

LOL

[@bloopbleepnothinghere]

Baldrick, and Ronnie Barker 😅🇬🇧 Basil Faultless 😅😅😅😂 Edmund Blackadder, oh my! Stoop.

[@1967clem]

Not too mention Stan Butler and Jack Harper from on the Buses!

[@StephenKarch]

He didn't look back on his Homeland when he left for New York, as he's an Irishman. We'll done on a just revenge well served out but Elephants never forget so they say.

[@YoreHistory]

We shall see what happens in New York :) thanks for watching!

[@karenmcdonald7801]

Brilliant, very interesting and exciting. Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie barker eh?

[@YoreHistory]

Had to pay homage :)

[@vernantruman1797]

The stealing of clothes from a wash line was called snowflaking.

[@YoreHistory]

Indeed

[@djdeemz7651]

“The Good Old Days”

[@AceJoker72]

If anyone could pull off the experience of a German u-boat sailor in either world war it'd be you and by God it'd be amazing 😍

[@radiantorder5958]

Are we going to have a continual installment? How does he fair in America....

[@YoreHistory]

I left it resolved, but open-ended just in case...

[@DollshouseGirl1]

I do hope that people around the world do realise that when Charles got crowned they moved the homeless people, (disgusting) 350,000 children are homeless in the UK today. Queen Victoria was living it up like the royals today, and poverty was rife

[@rapax0413]

Photographs are amazing. Who created them?

[@YoreHistory]

It is a blend of real Victorian era photographs (creative commons so not sure) and AI generated ones. Roughly 50/50...using AI only when I couldn't get a proper scene/character.

[@rapax0413]

@@YoreHistory Thanks!

[@stephaniehale3379]

This is spellbinding thx so much!!!

[@alexzhu4710]

an exciting story, like a more real version of oliver twist.

[@Merble]

Are these photos AI adjustments or what? I can't figure out where bro found all these period-appropriate images with such interesting composition.

[@YoreHistory]

It is a combination of actual Victorian era photographs and AI altered photographs to fit certain scenes.

[@Merble]

@@YoreHistory Neat stuff. I found myself wondering if some of the 'gang' photos had LLM hand warping or if those dudes just all had busted knuckles. Both fit well enough that I couldn't decide.

[@YoreHistory]

@Merble if you give me a timestamp I can tell you if it's actual vs AI. It's getting better by the week. My daughter is an artist so I try to stick to photo or cinematic pics vs illustrations but that's just me.

[@Merble]

@@YoreHistory The one at 19:50 and 22:50 is what initially piqued my curiosity. They all look like they punch brick walls for fun, going on the visible knuckles, but the image itself looks very... modern film or something in terms of setup.

[@MomentsInTrading]

I really enjoyed this 👍🏻

[@Spursarestupid]

Can't see what you point is? Is it about the conditions the Irish had to put up with when they joined the already suffering population of the east end. My family wasn't Irish they were part of the existing Eastenders. Am I supposed to feel sorry for them. My Family was from Shoreditch, my wife's family around the Elephant and Castle. I heard the family hardship stories. My wife lived 6 to a room, when growing up. Conditions didn't change much into the 60s. Our play grounds were bomb sites. Some kids, if they didn't eat at school, would have starved. All i hear is that we want reparations for dead relatives who had it bad. Well I Don't want paying for what others went through. I wanted better for me and my family. We done with my wife, we did it ourselves. Look forward to better future for yourself, not back for pity.

[@YoreHistory]

You feel what you want to feel. If you felt apathy or disdain that's perfectly fine too. Not every piece of history is for everyone and that is fine. Im Dutch who grew up poor, very poor so was just my thought to tell the story of a typical immigrant at the time who ended up in gang life. THe idea is to continue the story in New York. The fact he was poor...nature vs nurture is also part of the story but for the viewer to decide. At the end of the day I will tell the stories I want to tell. Thanks for watching!

[@bmac454]

🤔 I didn't know blokes from" on the buses " and. " Fawlty towers ". Had Victorian gang connections ha ha 😂😆

[@jennklein1917]

Excellent, I am now more informed

[@user-gz1eq3xf2g]

Corbett and barker went on to be 2 of the best comedians in the country

[@YoreHistory]

Haha indeed :D

[@tradingforbeginners125]

It would be cool to know what life of a British colonial soldier was like

[@ekaos5099]

Unfortunately he and his family had booked on the maiden voyage of the Titanic! 🤣

[@YoreHistory]

LOL.

[@AckzaTV]

couldn't the irish have found backup food supply? what didbthey eat beforebl potatoes were brought over?

[@YoreHistory]

It's a great question and while i didn't really go into the reasons they were as follows: Ireland at the time was ruled as a colony by Great Britain. Land was owned by the British. Irish tenant farmers could not own land. THe British had a huge percentage of their farms designated for potato. The first year of the famine the blight destroyed half that crop. So without other food sources or ability to grow other crops (they didn't own the land) they starved. Was actually horrible. This is why there are so many Irish in countries like America/Canada etc.

[@khallkhall7237]

Actually there was plenty of food grown in Ireland during the potato famine. However it was worth more money in England than it was in Ireland. So the people who owned it, the upper classes, shipped it there. The food crops that failed were mostly the tenant-farmers potatoes. Which means they had no food and no cash. But that didn't matter because if they'd had cash all the other food had pretty much been shipped to England already. Thousands of people starved because there was more profit in selling the product somewhere else. It was an entirely manufactured famine. The same thing happened in India a few years later and then again during WWI. I wouldn't be surprised if it happened in WWII too. But I know less about that era.

[@columbannon9134]

The only thing that England brought over was problems. The back up food that you speak about was brought over to England for to sell. Victoria was not a right bitch to the Irish she also starved her own people. No back up food for these people also .

[@_dbzeibert_1718]

Wow. I hope those guys made a good life for themselves when they got here.

[@Brice23]

Well done...

[@francesbernard2445]

The Victorian era minded gangster still exists while he is constant determined to prove that he was not ever overprotected during his upbringing before he had become a military minded with weapon sometimes concealed company man too. A weapon NOT designed not for responsible harvesting and respectful giving thanks to god while preparing all which has been harvested too after another meeting in a booth on how best to proceed with the harvest. Gangsters will never approve of any booth no matter how small unless it is theirs to re-name in their own language.

[@christophermcguire27]

Tell me about it

[@sirbrick7105]

This could make a good movie.

[@mackfin8869]

The good old days.Eye eye

[@tituslabienus01]

Comes To America During The Great Depression*

[@hedgemist691]

Ronnie Barker, Bazil Faultless, Stan Butler, Jack Harper, Baldrick. You're 'avin a larf.

[@YoreHistory]

LOl. Hey I grew up with them and love them all. Was just a tribute to some of my favourite comediants :)

[@michaelharrison3602]

Mary's Elephant gang evolved into the forty thieves a gang of female shoplifters from the neighbouring south London boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark which included the Elephant and castle, Lambeth Walk and the cut.They were still active in the fifties when i grew up.They were wonderful women who would do more for their poor neighbours than the government.i thought of them as aunties they would buy me ice cream and sweets and sometimes give my mum clothes for my brother and I

[@AckzaTV]

these videos will have millions o' views

[@YoreHistory]

Cheers and thanks for watching!

[@fl4shb4ck7]

Thanks!

[@johngalvin6010]

Yeah, my great great granddad was part of the tortoise shell gang. Sadly, it didn't last that long. the Bowery boys let us go, he said or they'd make soup of them. Those that survived got out of there very slow but made it big in Galapagos. They had everything until this Darwin bloke...

[@YoreHistory]

LOVE IT...thanks for sharing! Cheers.

[@420YOUKNOWHO]

This could be a movie

[@cornhammer]

That’s nothing look into Glasgow at that time

[@YoreHistory]

100%

[@AppyTX]

Awesome story

[@user-oh4zh8go9f]

All throughout history famine has stalked humanity. Don't be mistaken into believing it won't come to pass again. Its Africa today and who knows, maybe the west tomorrow..but it will come to pass.

[@floatpvnk]

Fingers is gene wilder and hammer is Martin freeman lol

[@TingTingalingy]

Horse manure doesn't really stink. I was around horse stables much of my life, so I'm not just speaking from my armchair

[@YoreHistory]

One person's junk is another's treasure... :D

[@Merble]

Or being around it all your life has made it smell less... It absolutely stinks. Not as bad as pig or cow though, admittedly.

[@TingTingalingy]

@@YoreHistory ok, so your lack in experience turns to mockery. Ok, hope your channel fails.

[@TingTingalingy]

@@Merble keep living in your ssri world, while crying about the 1%.

[@TingTingalingy]

@@YoreHistory you have no experience so you move to mockery. May your channel crash & burn, with you behind the wheel.

[@michaelharrison3602]

The hazardous crossing?😂 it's the Irish sea ffs not the Atlantic ocean it's around a hundred miles Sure life was hard for the poor As it always is for the poor everywhere. I grew up in Whitechapel just after WW1 life was hard then but no ever said it would be easy.The elephant gang were much later they were a gang of female shoplifters who later became known as the forty thieves. They were still operating when I was growing up they were mainly from the Elephant and castle and Lambeth walk where we moved to in about 1955

[@YoreHistory]

For a moment I thought you said you grew up just after WW1...was going to congratulate you for reaching 100+ :D I had to take a few fictional liberties but tried to be as historically accurate as I could. Some of the gangs were very long lived.

[@Maldoror200]

💀🥀✨️..BRAVO !!..,Home ov my ancestors/my People.., (McCarthy, O'Donell ..🙏✨️)

[@OLDCHEMIST1]

So this is fiction, apart from the gangs? I noticed because you have the names of so many British comedians prominent in the last century as the crooks: Ronnie Corbett, Ronnie Barker, Basil "Faultless" [John Cleese], etc. Still an enthralling story!

[@YoreHistory]

Yes, setting, robbery, socio-economics, chronological big events are all historically accurate. Main character and supporting based on those from that era but historical fiction is how I label it. More accurately 2nd person historical fiction. Thanks for watching?

[@OLDCHEMIST1]

@@YoreHistory Yes, very enjoyable! I just had a "wait a minute ..." moment when you started mentioning British comedians of my era. Very nicely done, hats off to you!

[@YoreHistory]

@@OLDCHEMIST1 Apologies. I grew up with those comedians as well so was just me playing a bit of homage. Most haven't noticed but a few keen ears like yourself have lol :)

[@OLDCHEMIST1]

@@YoreHistory Absolutely no reason to apologise! I agree they are well worth an homage or two, " Fawlty Towers" , The "Fork Handles/Four Candles" sketch. I am paid, although in a relatively lowly job, to be observant, so nothing special, really! Thanks once again for your work, much appreciated!

[@MarcelGomesPan]

Bravo! 👏 ❤

[@w.flores8868]

Daaam they probably really smellled back then.

[@michaelharrison3602]

Moost of these gangs were about in the early 20th century not that victorian times though many gangs were around then .the years after WW1 saw the rise of race course gangs like the Brumagen(Birmingham)boys also known as the peaky blinders and the Italian Sabini Cortese gang. During WW2 Many italian were interned which allowed Jack Spot and Billy Hill To become the major players in London crime. The two later fel out but people like the Kray twins and Frankie Fraser served their apprenticeship with them and went on to become the main men of their era

[@YoreHistory]

All were around during Victorian times that were mentioned in this video. The Elephant Gang had its roots in VIctorian England BUT was most prominently in the news during the 1920s.

[@vikingking1]

Tanks

[@robertaurens5665]

Sounds just like China 2024

[@troy-wc5uc]

Funny how you use the name of British comedians and comedian roles😅😅 as your characters totally fictional entertaining

[@witster6121]

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