Charlie Richardson is brown bread

[DotCommunist]

Off to torture some slags in that great manor in the sky

 

[TopCat]

This is political how?
Can I be the first to say he was a horrible bully?

 

[DotCommunist]

'news'

yeah book I read on him made hims ound like a proper cunt

 

[marty21]

This is political how?
Can I be the first to say he was a horrible bully?

you say that now he's gone

 

[Ted Striker]

He only ever harmed his own.

Loveable rogue.

Not like the thugs of today.

Loved his Mum.

(In case anyone's playing Vintage East End Gangster bingo)

 

[Pickman's model]

rip - he'll likely rip some angel's wing off.

 

[Pickman's model]

He only ever harmed his own.

Loveable rogue.

Not like the thugs of today.

Loved his Mum.

(In case anyone's playing Vintage East End Gangster bingo)

you forgot 'the streets were safer in them days'

 

[DotCommunist]

He only ever harmed his own.

Loveable rogue.

Not like the thugs of today.

Loved his Mum.

(In case anyone's playing Vintage East End Gangster bingo)

A proper gent

 

[Ted Striker]

My uncle's best mate was a gun runner for them

(always a 'gun runner'. Never hitman, hired muscle, used to do the doors, always, 'gun runner')

 

[DotCommunist]

My uncle's best mate was a gun runner for them

(always a 'gun runner'. Never hitman, hired muscle, used to do the doors, always, 'gun runner')

did you ever say chinny recon

 

[Ted Striker]

No chance, I joined in... "Yours too, eh? Snap!"

 

[8ball]

My stupid brain keeps reading this thread title as 'Cliff Richard is dead' when I catch it out of the corner of my eye.

 

[RaverDrew]

My uncle's best mate was a gun runner for them

(always a 'gun runner'. Never hitman, hired muscle, used to do the doors, always, 'gun runner')

It wouldn't be a proper Friday night out in South London if you didn't at some point meet some pisshead bragging about how he was related/connected to the Richardsons.

 

[malatesta32]

has there ever been any decent books by/about that lot? the autobiogs are appalling - reg krays thoughts and philospophy being one! frank frasers 1st was pretty readable tho. hes quite good at spinning a tale.

 

[malatesta32]

My stupid brain keeps reading this thread title as 'Cliff Richard is dead' when I catch it out of the corner of my eye.

cliff is immortal sunshine!

 

[8ball]

cliff is immortal sunshine!

I fucking hope so, cos if he dies we're going to have a whole fucking week of wall to wall shit on the radio and telly.

 

[malatesta32]

blasphemy! blasphemy!

 

[marty21]

I used to drink in a pub in Stoke Newington (now closed and converted into flats) and the landlord reckoned he was mates with the Krays and knew the Richardsons - mmm 'chinnyreckon'

 

[rubbershoes]

did you ever say chinny recon

sounds like a horrible Tom Clancy/ Jimmy Hill mashup

 

[marty21]

It wouldn't be a proper Friday night out in South London if you didn't at some point meet some pisshead bragging about how he was related/connected to the Richardsons.

it's a bit like Swansea/Mumbles in the 80s when every old fellah you spoke to in a pub claimed Dylan Thomas owed him a tenner *

*well not quite like it - unless Dylan Thomas was a mobster

 

[TopCat]

This will probably revitalize Dave Courtney's "career"...

 

[youngian]

has there ever been any decent books by/about that lot? the autobiogs are appalling - reg krays thoughts and philospophy being one! frank frasers 1st was pretty readable tho. hes quite good at spinning a tale.

There is a film about Charlie Richardson, 'Charlie' starring one of the Bros brothers. Co-stars Den and Angie from Eastenders.

 

[malatesta32]

it's a bit like Swansea/Mumbles in the 80s when every old fellah you spoke to in a pub claimed Dylan Thomas owed him a tenner *

*well not quite like it - unless Dylan Thomas was a mobster

not very like it at all but it wouldnt be surprising as thomas was, to put it nicely, a wastrel! dylan, 'good to see him, better to see him go - was 1 opinion (approx)

 

[malatesta32]

This will probably revitalize Dave Courtney's "career"...

not even in jest TC!!! he's an appalling opportunist to say the least.

 

[el-ahrairah]

you could leave your front door unlocked etc.

 

[ViolentPanda]

This will probably revitalize Dave Courtney's "career"...

I can understand people being interested in the old-timers like Jack Spot, the Richardsons and the Krays, but Courtney? Most of his "rep" was built on getting away with a murder and helping arrange a Kray funeral. Villains treat him with barely-concealed contempt, and coppers buy info off of him (which Courtney claims is disinformation, obviously).

 

[malatesta32]

jack spot claimed he was at cable street but he is a known 'exaggerator' to be nice.

 

[marty21]

Reminds me of a time I was drinking outside the York Tavern in Angel, when reclaim the streets blocked off the streets, sand pits, etc - a sound system - it was a lovely sunny afternoon, and who should be sitting near us - Mad Frankie Fraser!


I will be able to use that one again when he eventually dies

 

[malatesta32]

yeah he's lived in islington for ages. not the trendy part tho.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I used to drink in a pub in Stoke Newington (now closed and converted into flats) and the landlord reckoned he was mates with the Krays and knew the Richardsons - mmm 'chinnyreckon'

I've never met anyone who was floating around London in the 60's who didn't know the Krays