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I wouldn’t know about the Blind Beggar. Another bit of info from back then was regarding the ‘heavy drapes’. Pubs used to have lock-ins after licensing hours and obviously raked in a fair amount of cash. Police, the naughty ones, would trawl around the area looking for those boozers. The...

Back in the late 1970s/early 80s I worked with a bloke from the east end - Hackney/Walthamstow area. One evening we were drinking in a boozer around that neck of the woods. He then told me that the pub we were in belonged to the Krays, they also owned five others. The Krays’ mum, Violet(?), was...

I watched an interesting documentary about Bindon and his antics. Here are a few snippets : He happened to be on the island of Mustique when HRH Princess Margaret was there. Apparently she wished to see his ‘advantage’ - his oversized todger, to be precise. Now whether his ‘advantage’ was put...