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The Monday night live music (Burns Bros.) was actually in a little, narrow, sweaty pub just a little further along Whitechapel high street from the Blind Beggar, called The Lord Rodney’s Head. The used to do all the Blues Brothers stuff and then finish with songs from ‘Grease.’ I used to go...

Well, I lived there in the 90s, having left Sussex aged 19 to live in east London. This would be 30 years or so after their life sentences were handed down and I never heard any talk or mention of them. I think the East End had changed a lot by then, and a lot of their contemporaries were...

That murder took place on Evering Road in Stoke Newington. I used to live in house a few doors away from where it happened. Previous to that I lived in a terraced house in Bethnal Green, a couple of streets along from Vallance Road, where their mum lived.

Very much this. From what I’ve read on the topic, Reggie Kray could have been a very successful and legitimate businessman and realised that the gangster thing was detrimental and a distraction. Ronnie on the other hand was a paranoid schizophrenic and psychopath who loved the glamour of being...