The Real Peaky Blinders Episode 1 of 2
The origins of the real Peaky Blinders, a mass street gang phenomenon that arose in Birmingham at the end of the 19th century.
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00:04In 1890,
00:05an incident occurs
00:07in these back streets...
00:11..that reveals a phenomenon
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undefined:undefineda ginger beer when three tough nuts
00:34start to insult him.
00:37George decides to go home.
00:39When he gets outside,
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00:51So what's so important about
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01:15as bad and good as the one
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01:35They're about fighting.
01:37They attack policemen.
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undefined:undefinedmass gang movement...
02:06..who'd change our cities forever.
02:18My dad was the main source
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undefined:undefined"Take these to the Peaky Blinders."
02:32And he was terrified,
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02:45out of jam jars because they
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undefined:undefinedyou have no authority,
03:04everything's pretty grim,
03:06the only thing you can do
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undefined:undefinedthe name Sam Sheldon.
03:21Steven Knight set his drama
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03:40and three of the brothers,
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04:02and the worst gang war
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04:22The Sheldons have their own gang,
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04:51Here he is. Samuel Sheldon.
04:56Who many people might associate
04:59with the fictional Tommy Shelby
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05:17at the time, it was...
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05:39It's part of a remarkable collection
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06:03This is baby-faced Henry Fowler.
06:05He and his brothers were convicted
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06:33They're just a window into
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06:53Unfortunately, my great-grandfather,
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07:08He was a petty criminal - so petty
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07:26By trawling the records of hundreds
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07:46who belong to numerous
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07:58they have a name - slogging gangs,
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08:20is mirrored in other industrial
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08:38residential districts,
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08:51Birmingham, Manchester, Salford,
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undefined:undefinedBirmingham is the industrial heart
09:17of the greatest manufacturing
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09:50Into this world are born the members
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10:03is called Thomas Joyce.
10:16A mugshot of Joyce hasn't survived,
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10:34William Smallwood, a top fighter
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10:49"You've had a good thrashing -
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11:15because he was the toughest,
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undefined:undefinedthing they did own was the street.
11:30That belonged to them.
11:31So territory and masculinity
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11:49lots of threats being issued.
11:52These are not criminal gangs
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12:09I think people were
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12:28Carl has been tracing his story.
12:31He's here in the 1871 census.
12:33You can see him, there he is
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12:52living in 43,000 back-to-backs.
12:58Birmingham's back-to-backs
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13:36where filth accumulates on filth.
13:39Where courtyards are
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14:05But the census reveals a detail
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14:30It's said that any 12-year-old
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14:45There might have been quite a lot
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15:03The middle class birth-rate
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15:13They've got no gardens,
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15:29So perhaps the gangs
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15:45and gangs have, you know,
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16:05that sucks Thomas Joyce,
16:07the son of Irish parents,
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undefined:undefinedif you look at the census,
16:28of Irish-born people in Birmingham
16:31basically doubling between 1841
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16:53of more than a million Irish
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17:11streets such as Park Street.
17:13Now, those areas
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undefined:undefinedanti-Catholic hatred.
17:33And in 1867, that hatred
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17:53the new Irish arrivals
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18:12one of the poorest neighbourhoods
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18:27And at one stage, the mayor
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18:57and when the police do that,
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19:08into the street and smashed.
19:14It's the Irish victims of the mob
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19:36The roots of the slogging gangs are
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19:57who've lived through that period,
19:58have seen the way that
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20:15in some of the activities
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20:30Thomas Joyce thrives on
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20:48He's only 13.
20:50And in February of that year,
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21:01behind 15-year-old
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21:16and, throwing an arm around him,
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21:35Sadly, Thomas Kirkham dies
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21:57he's tried as an adult and he could
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22:26There's a lot of kudos,
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22:42And we discover evidence
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23:02including the working classes.
23:04Birmingham Provincial Press
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23:18of finding out what's going on
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23:40in Victorian Britain,
23:42because they're doing something
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23:53By the 1870s, literacy rates
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24:09if you're a working-class kid,
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24:24if you're a member of a gang
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24:38you've been in prison,
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24:57Here we've got
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25:14Just rich with details.
25:18The majority of offences on any
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25:33and alcoholic parents,
25:35no money, really just struggling
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25:55This lady here, Leah Jinks -
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26:26And she was sentenced to
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26:50But it's really telling,
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27:04stealing watches, stealing boots,
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27:26Witnesses said there were about 500,
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27:41She'd been seen by witnesses
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28:00or in assaults or attempts to
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28:14They were not the angel
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28:24you had to be loud if you were
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28:38So the young women are also
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28:50wearing a tremendously elaborate hat
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29:06can feel like quite a lot.
29:08And the way you dress and look
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29:37It's always inspired by the TV show,
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29:58George is ultimately convicted
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30:18apart from a fringe,
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30:30But when they first
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30:46and their very long fringe or quiff
30:48styled across their forehead
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31:02They didn't have the safety razors
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31:13and they would have bell-bottom
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31:32They have been described
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31:51There are even reports of
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32:08John-Joseph Hillier, somebody knits
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32:23has absolutely the reverse effect.
32:30The Peaky Blinder, this product
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undefined:undefinedany member of my family.
32:50Perhaps as we lived on his doorstep,
32:52we were treated as members
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33:16Gambling.
33:18And the next time
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33:37The one that pitches 'em
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34:08So gambling
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34:25He had one suit and she would
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34:40and then back into the pawnbrokers
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35:00an otherwise relatively bleak
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35:20because they worked as hard
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35:40the middle classes want the fun
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35:57that many of the elite felt
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36:20the gangs fight back.
36:22It's a regular occurrence
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36:40by the enraged youths.
36:42They're called roughs,
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37:06By the mid 1870s, the territorial
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37:27where the gangs, known as scuttlers,
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37:47around the activities of these young
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38:10For five years,
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38:26to take on the establishment.
38:307th March, 1875, a riot erupts
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38:52But then, as one witness put it,
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39:09in the Navigation Street riot.
39:13This is a collection relating
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undefined:undefinedto the whistle chain there.
39:32This is the picture
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undefined:undefinedthe scene of the riot to help out
39:50a fellow officer, and he and
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undefined:undefined660
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undefined:undefinedpresume are commemorative postcards,
40:11posters produced at the time,
40:14both kind of highlighting
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undefined:undefinedof his execution,
40:39his terror
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undefined:undefined673
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undefined:undefinedthe Roman Catholic faith.
40:55The very beauty of the morning,
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undefined:undefined677
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undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedalmost to give way.
41:14On being placed
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undefined:undefined
undefined:undefineddescended with a swift rush,
41:29being brought up at the end
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undefined:undefined687
undefined:undefined688
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefineda terrible fate awaits you."
41:48On the other hand, it's quite
undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined692
undefined:undefined693
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedtowards Corkery
42:06rather than PC William Lines,
42:08who ultimately lost his life,
42:10left a young daughter without
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undefined:undefined699
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedfor lawlessness.
42:36Over the next few years,
undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined703
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedin the fights is quite extreme.
42:55You could have, as in 1886,
42:58supposedly 2,000 Peaky Blinders
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undefined:undefined708
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedbuckled belts.
43:12It went on all afternoon and police
undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined712
undefined:undefined713
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedto clean up the town.
43:39So, here we have the tunic of
undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined717
undefined:undefined718
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedhad been killed in the line of duty,
43:53police officers were being stabbed
undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined722
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedthe standard of education
44:08of his recruits, to improve
undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined726
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedbeen the victims of racist mobs
44:23as the police stood by.
44:26Only 1% of Birmingham's population
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undefined:undefined731
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedis on demand, so what he does,
44:41he brings in lots of young fit men.
44:44They've got to be five foot ten,
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undefined:undefined736
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedand can you fight?
44:56He sends out his men in pairs
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undefined:undefined149
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedby more severe sentences
45:13against criminals,
undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined744
undefined:undefined745
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedsadly died in office, Birmingham
45:36was one of the best-policed cities
undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined750
undefined:undefined751
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedhad all but disappeared.
45:51Effective policing
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undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined756
undefined:undefined757
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedEngland's cities
46:10are really changed as a result
undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined762
undefined:undefined763
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedfor their physiques.
46:29So in Manchester and Salford,
undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined767
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedthe recruiting sergeant
46:47are deemed fit
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undefined:undefined772
undefined:undefined773
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedphilanthropists also get involved.
47:23A few good-hearted individuals
undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined778
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedfigures in Birmingham
47:37is Father Pinchard.
47:38He's the High Church of England
undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined783
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedboxing.
47:52They've got no ring, no ropes,
undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
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undefined:undefined788
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedis that, by and large, they work.
48:17By the late 1890s, reports
undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined792
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedas the lads' clubs take root.
48:36The lads' clubs also heavily promote
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undefined:undefined797
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedof open ground.
48:49Football also grows very rapidly
undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined801
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedin Manchester - Manchester United
49:07and Manchester City
undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined806
undefined:undefined807
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedthe scuttling conflicts.
49:25But the final nail
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undefined:undefined811
undefined:undefined812
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedopened in Manchester alone,
49:40and young people flocked
undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined816
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedas three or four times a week.
49:54Police officers absolutely welcome
undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined822
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedgoing to watch films
50:08that they might otherwise
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undefined:undefined826
undefined:undefined827
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedfrom Birmingham's slums.
50:31Sam Sheldon and his family,
50:33the inspiration for the Shelbys
undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined832
undefined:undefined833
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinednewspaper reports from the period.
50:52Look at it.
undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined838
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedlives close to the Sheldons.
51:11They originally fall out
undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined843
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedthe vendetta in Garrison Lane,
51:28for me, it was like, as a kid,
51:30I imagined it as like a Wild West,
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undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined851
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedabout what happened to Billy Beach.
51:55Eventually, though, he
undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined857
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedvendetta in Garrison Lane -
52:05is just something that always evokes
undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
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undefined:undefined862
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedis fast disappearing.
52:26Now if there's any fighting to be
undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined867
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedin Birmingham.
52:46So the petty criminals amongst them,
undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined871
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedfor three months in Manchester
53:01as a suspected person.
53:03That's a common charge
undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined877
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedisn't his final destination.
53:20He's heading for
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undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined883
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedare opening.
53:39And it's illegal
undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined888
undefined:undefined889
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedin the ring...
53:51And where there's cash,
undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined893
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedthey haven't got a lot of security,
54:06they're very popular with crowds,
undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined898
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedpickpockets and rogues
54:26comes another familiar character
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undefined:undefined903
undefined:undefined904
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undefined:undefined906
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedthat you picked out
54:56the biggest of the opposition,
undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined910
undefined:undefined911
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedin Summer Lane in Birmingham,
55:11which then was a very rough part
undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined915
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedby working hard in a factory.
55:23And so, in a sense, this idea
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undefined:undefined919
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedthe world is changing
55:40and that there's big money
undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined924
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedfrom gangs
55:55like the racecourse gangs
undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined928
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedis becoming much more organised,
56:12and with organised society
undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined932
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedof reading research
56:27about who was around
56:28and just discovering
undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined937
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedtheir gangsters,
56:43the British have never, ever
undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined942
undefined:undefined943
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedand Jeremiah Corkery were violent.
57:03Many were victims of
undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined947
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedconditions so many endured
57:20and forced society to act.
57:26Perhaps their stories
undefined:undefined00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,200
undefined:undefined952
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedmajor gangland war
57:48between two gangs from
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undefined:undefined957
undefined:undefined
undefined:undefinedthe spiritual godfathers
58:04of the Krays and the Richardsons.
58:07There they are.
58:09The real Billy Kimber,
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