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From there he moved to Los Angeles, where he became a bodyguard to Charlie Chaplin and later to Jack Dragna, the city’s Mafia boss. The McDonald brothers were prominent leaders of the Elephant and Castle gang between the two World Wars. Charles (Wag) McDonald was born on February 5, 1877, at Valentine Place, Lambeth, southeast London.
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 ...
The elephant shown alongside the title is the model elephant from the Elephant and Castle. Although trams ran across all of London, the film focuses on south London. In 1971, Unity Hall published Emily, A Biography of the Moroccan Princess from the Elephant and Castle , which tells the story of Emily Keene.
After the war, Caine's father was demobilised and the family were rehoused by the council in Marshall Gardens in London's Elephant and Castle area, where they lived in a prefabricated house made in Canada [20] as much of London's housing stock had been destroyed during the Blitz in 1940 and 1941. Caine later wrote in his autobiography, "The ...
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What we know about two women being thrown off cliff near German castle. Witness describes scratches on suspect’s face. Friday 16 June 2023 14:45, Megan Sheets. Video posted online showed police ...
The Coronet Theatre was a large live music and night-club venue with a 2,600 capacity located at 28 New Kent Road in Elephant and Castle, London, England. The historic venue operated as an entertainment venue from 1879 until 2018 and to up to its closure managed to retain all of its art deco features.