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Elephant and Castle Mob The Forty Elephants or Forty Thieves were a 19th to 20th century all-female London crime syndicate who specialised in shoplifting . [ 1 ] This gang was notable for its longevity and skill in avoiding police detection.
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 ...
Elephant and Castle is an area of South London, England, in the London Borough of Southwark. ... [23] but the estate later developed a reputation for crime, ...
Charles 'Wag' McDonald and Wal McDonald were brothers who led the Elephant and Castle Mob, a London street gang active in the early 20th century.Bert McDonald, their other brother, was the boyfriend of Forty Elephants leader Alice Diamond.
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 ...
Alice was the eldest of seven children; a younger sister, Louisa, also joined the Forty Thieves gang of which Alice Diamond had become leader and given the title Queen of the Forty Thieves and, later, Queen of the Forty Elephants, because of her connection to the streets around the Elephant and Castle district of southeast London.
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 ]
At the age of five, he moved with his family to a flat on Walworth Road, Elephant and Castle. [8] Although his parents were not criminals, Fraser turned to crime aged 10 with his sister Eva, to whom he was close. [10] He was a deserter during the Second World War, escaping from his barracks on several occasions.