Freddie mills

[j.sabourn]

#9 Graham lay in bed last night only half asleep due to the pain of Arthur Itis in my hand , knowing there was something about 1969 I should have remembered . There was belated as it is, I was sitting in a bar in Honolulu watching the landing on the moon by Neil Armstrong on the tv. We are lucky as we have these aids to memory as we get older . A bit later I won’t discuss private lives but finished up in a show which would have put Port Said in the run up to male bad manners. That year was very full as also reminds me of the master walking off and flying home from Korea saying what am I doing here I’m retired , and leaving me with a bunch of foreigners to get the ship to Japan . It’s always some other incident that triggers other stranger incidents . Hence 1969 Neil Armstrong is responsible in this case, is responsible for my memory of that year. Cheers JS

[Graham Shaw]

JS Yr.# 10. Jack 'the Hat' McVitie.Yes he got the moniker from the trilby which was his preferred choice of headgear.He wore it to cover his balding head, even in the bath, allegedly ,which nobody,not even Ronnie Kray would ever admit to seeing him do so.
It takes all kinds I suppose,even,or maybe especially, in 60's gangland culture....

Jack the Hat McVitie.jpg

Cheers!
Graham 'the Steaming Bonnet' Shaw

[Bill Morrison]

#13. Graham on the subject of London gangsters, "mad" Frankie Fraser was something else.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Fraser

Bill

[happy daze john in oz]

The Richardson gang were well known back in the 60's, worked a different area to the Krays.

My mate, a very good chef answered a note in the paper asking for a chef to set up a dinner party.
He replied and it was for the Kray's to celebrate their mothers birthday, they were so impressed with his work he became the family chef for special occasions.
But he was no shining light, but a bloody good chef who taught me a lot about cooking and a good guy if you had a problem.

The Kray's lke many of that time in the underworld had a code of conduct.

Muggings were not common then, blagging banks and jewelers was the name of the game mainly.

However one poor soul; mugged an old lady, Ronnie got to hear about it.
The guy was traced somehow and a day later when doing the river bank check along the Thames his body for some odd reason was found there.
The police never did find out how he got there.