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The Forty Thieves operated from the Elephant and Castle area of London. They were allied with the Elephant and Castle Mob led by the McDonald brothers. They raided quality stores in the West End of London and ranged all over the country. The gang was also known to masquerade as housemaids for wealthy families before ransacking their homes ...
The Elephant and Castle Mob were one of the many independent street gangs active in London's underworld during the interwar years.A rival of mobster Charles "Darby" Sabini along with the Birmingham Boys and the Cortesi brothers of Saffron Hill, [1] they were eventually forced out by Sabini with the added manpower of imported Sicilian mafiosi and had disappeared from the city by the end of the ...
That story is recounted from his diaries in ‘Elephant Boys – Tales of London and Los Angeles Underworlds’, written by his nephew Brian McDonald. In Wag’s absence, leadership of the Elephant Gang went to Walter (Wal) McDonald, who defeated the Sabini gang, led by Harry Sabini, at the ‘battle of Ham Yard’ near Piccadilly in 1927.
Air pollution from road traffic in Elephant and Castle has significantly improved in recent years. In 2015, Elephant and Castle exceeded the UK government legal limit on Nitrogen Dioxide, with the local borough recording an annual mean concentration of 41 micrograms per cubic metre (μg/m^3). In 2017, this figure was 34μg/m^3, below the legal ...
The Elephant & Castle regeneration is a £1.5 billion scheme to redevelop the area around the Elephant & Castle road junction. The regeneration plan led to the demolition of the Heygate Estate, with the land planned to provide 2,704 new homes, of which 82 will be social rented. [ 11 ]
During the early 1950s Slaughter appeared as the villain in two crime films King of the Underworld (1952) and Murder at Scotland Yard (1953), which was adapted from the seven-part television series 'Inspector Morley: Late of Scotland Yard', starring Patrick Barr, Dorothy Bramhall, and Tucker McGuire. He also still regularly toured the provinces ...
Footage showing a TV reporter trying to maintain his composure as a young elephant teased him with its trunk is reminiscent of a famous Yellowstone broadcast involving bison. TV report on ...
Both were convicted in 1913 of pickpocketing. In 1919, the Titanic was crushed by the Elephant and Castle Mob. White went on to form the King's Cross Boys, and combined with the Sabinis and Alf Solomon's Yiddishers to form a counterbalance to the Elephant, Camden Town and Finsbury gangs, and their Birmingham Boys allies led by Billy Kimber ...