The Kray Twins: London's Infamous Mafia Duo | Rise And Fall Of The Krays | Timeline 

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

"A paranoid schizophrenic walks into a bar."

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

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.

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

Legend was amazing Tom Hardy was so good in the part

"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".

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

I CAME FOR A SHOOTOUT, A PROPER SHOOTOUT 🤣🤣

Just found this on RU-vid 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.

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

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

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

If i had a pound for everytime someone cockney says "yeah they were my uncles, brothers, third cousin twice removed" i'd be rich.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Great video. Very informative.

Great hairstyle Charlie. Combining the combover and the mullet.

boy, Maureen Flanagan aged gracefully compared to those geezers!

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

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".

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“To be honest... I don’t think he knew where to put it while he was married” 😂😂😂 had me in stitches mate 😂😂😂

Charlie's hairstyle was scarier than Ron.

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

good documentary 👍

I would LOVE to finish watching this, but I cant take a commercial ad every 5 minutes (truly)! TYSM and God bless you all 😘💕🙏🙋‍♀️

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

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".

I’m just trying to get to sleep rn

I Love the honesty of Charlie Kray and their Associates.

The best documentary out of them all ❤👍

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

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

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.

Thank you Great Documentary

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Fear is not the same as respect.

Good lads x

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

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

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.

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

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 .

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

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

Saw the movie,enjoyed this.

Tom Hardy was a great actor to play these guys!

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

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

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

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

Now this the kind of videos I like to watch!

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

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.

What about jay’s dads poker tournament

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

Here because of legend . If I see Tom hardy , I watch . Btw loved how Ron sounded just like bane from the dark knight rises.

Nipper...Kray Gangbuster...love it😀

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.

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

Super! Thanks! ✌️🤠💥🌟🌀🌐

we all make choices, and bullys know how to instill fear through violance, and that is doing evil to your fellow man.

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.

Excellent.

Fascinating, but I don't understand how such a high-line production can have such wild variations in volume between one interview and the next. ????????????

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

When the Krays ruled the roost there were no adverts on RU-vid !

Classic speech at the end from the hack..lol that guy was hammered :)

Its so amazing.

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.

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

I love the legends movie...but i wish there was more of fighting scenes

why have you got a photo of morden in surrey as the thumbnail? lol

I like the way each one tells their side of the story 😏 Pretty interesting 👍

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 !

"I'm out there airwinging on the street and all I hear is Kray Kray Kray".....

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.

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!!!

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

Some of the clips seem to be in a wrong aspect ratio.

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...

Amazing how delusional people can be to justify benefitting from evil

In those days it was a toss up between the police and the criminals as to who was the most bent.

Everybody wants to be a gangster until they get to hear about the Kray's.

Wait a minute ...... what a legend.