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Original Gangsters with Sean Bean - Season 1 Episode 1 -
Peaky Blinders
Peaky Blinders
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00:30This is the story of the real Peaky Blinders
01:00In 2013, an award-winning television series would burst onto our screens
01:12But what was the real-life inspiration?
01:16Who were the real Peaky Blinders?
01:19And who was the real Tommy Shelby?
01:21Birmingham in the 1860s through to the 70s was in the process of rapid and spectacular change
01:32Its population was exploding, was approaching over 400,000 by 1871
01:37We made anything that the world wanted
01:40It was buttons, it was guns, it was jewellery, it was brassware, it was pens
01:45Tell us what you wanted, we can make it
01:47Birmingham at the 10 of the century is really a city of two halves
01:51On the one hand, it's doing really well in relation to the other major industrial cities of the Midlands and the North
01:59However, that wealth comes at the expense of the people who labour for it, the working class
02:04And their lives are extremely different
02:06There was hundreds, thousands of people flooding to the area for work, for better prospects
02:12To improve their lot for themselves and their families
02:14There was lots of deprivation
02:16People coming in for quite poorly paid manual labour jobs
02:21And really struggling to make ends meet
02:23The living conditions for the poor were horrendous
02:28Thousands of hard-working families crowded into back-to-back houses
02:33Three, maybe four families to one house
02:36Sharing one communal toilet outside
02:39They were entombed almost in this cycle of poverty
02:45It was a battle every day against king poverty
02:49And that king was relentless
02:51And he was uncaring
02:53They are expected to labour for the prosperity of the British Empire
02:58Until eventually they die
03:00There are some aspects of human nature that don't seem to change from one age to the next
03:06When people are given no opportunity, no outlet, no escape from their situation
03:12You will only ever get one result
03:15Violence
03:17Fighting was almost a leisure activity for some men
03:21They're living in poverty
03:22They own nothing
03:24They are looked down upon
03:26They're disparaged
03:27But the one thing that they've got
03:29Is their fighting prowess
03:31So in a poorer street
03:32Those men that were regarded as tough
03:35Gained status
03:36Was something that they had
03:38Under these circumstances
03:43It's pretty clear that violence wasn't just a means of survival
03:47It was a way of expressing the frustrations and discontent with their lives
03:53They're called sluggers from 1872 because they slog
03:57And they are the worst gangs for violence
04:00And the most notorious gangs in Birmingham from late 1860s really to the turn of the 20th century
04:07When you think about crime at that time
04:09If we just try and make sense of it with some compassion
04:12Some of that crime would have been in many ways perceived to be out of necessity
04:16So if you don't have any food
04:18And you want to keep your family alive
04:20You're going to steal food for them
04:21So I think again
04:22Compassion for where some of that early criminal behaviour comes from
04:26It was a very violent time
04:32And you can see lots of records and evidence of different weapons that would be used
04:37And they would use anything they could get their hands on
04:39So generally steel toe cap boots, belt buckles
04:42Any bits of brick or stones or anything they find on the floor
04:46Lots of evidence of assaults where objects and missiles have just been thrown at the other person
04:51Their main weapon is their belts
04:53They wrap the belt round the wrist
04:57They grab hold and make sure they've got it caught in the palm of the hand
05:02And then they buckle it leaving about 8 inches
05:04And then they slash and they slash
05:06Cause terrible injuries
05:07They are not organised criminals
05:09These are all hooligans
05:11If you've got to work 6 days a week from morning till night for pennies
05:18And with no way out
05:20Violence is a language
05:22Just the only way to be heard
05:25But where do the Peaky Blinders fit into all this?
05:31Who were they?
05:33The term Peaky Blinder is a fashion statement
05:36The Peaky Blinders are often called the bell-button crew
05:40They wear bell-button trousers tight to the knee
05:43And then wide, 22 inches wide
05:45And they have something like this scarf
05:48Called a daff, a silkish type scarf
05:51They're wearing a billy cock
05:53They have prison cropped hair
05:54Really almost bald
05:56But they're like a quiff
05:57They like to show it off
05:59So they steam the billy cock
06:01And they make the brim into like a funnel
06:04And they pull it over one eye
06:06Hence the brim's blinding the eye
06:08And when the flat cap comes in
06:11All they do, they just pull the cap over the eye to blind it
06:15So they've got a distinct fashion
06:17And the first time that the term Peaky Blinder is used in the press in Birmingham is March 1890
06:22The mythology surrounding the Peaky Blinders is that they kept razor blades in their caps
06:28And that they used these as lethal weapons when required
06:31I don't believe any gangster ever had a razor blade in their cap
06:36Because it would be mentioned in the newspapers
06:39I found no authoritative evidence that there were ever razor blades in caps
06:43An inoffensive chap called George Eastwood
06:49Goes into the bar of the Rainbow Pub
06:51On the corner of High Street, Bordsley and Adderley Street
06:55Not far from the ball ring
06:57He's a teetotaler
06:58Sadly he's picked the wrong night
07:00He's drinking a ginger beer
07:02And three hard men with an evil reputation come in
07:11And they insult him for drinking a soft drink
07:14And a chap called Thomas Mucklow
07:16The captain of the gang
07:18Says what you're drinking that tack for
07:21He says mind your own business
07:24I can drink what I want
07:25And a 14 year old lad
07:45Was a witness
07:46And he said
07:47They shouted
07:48Give it to him hot lads
07:51Oh poor George
07:52They did give it to him hot
07:54So after the attack on George Eastwood
08:06The next day
08:07There was an article in the newspaper
08:09Reporting on it
08:10Saying it was by the
08:11Peaky Blinders
08:12During the 1880s you get the rise of the sensationalist press
08:20The kind of modern tabloid press
08:23And the way in which the media reports on crime
08:26Is completely different at this point
08:27They have these sensational headlines
08:29That are extremely eye-catching
08:31The media is a really important part
08:34Of the creation of a new criminal stereotype
08:37At the end of the 19th century
08:39So looking through the original newspaper articles at the time
08:45It would appear that
08:46There isn't one specific gang
08:48Called the Peaky Blinders
08:50Even judges start to refer to poor criminals
08:54As being of the Peaky class
08:56Any criminal involved in theft
08:59Gambling, assaults
09:00Attacking police officers
09:01They're all just called Peaky Blinders
09:04And among the Peaky class criminals
09:07Some of the very worst were the Sheldon Brothers
09:10Stephen Knight, the creator of the television series
09:16Has said that the spark for the Shelbys
09:18Was the Sheldons
09:19The Sheldons had five brothers
09:24Two of them were respectable
09:26Three became three of the worst criminals
09:29And violent men
09:31In late Victorian and Edwardian Birmingham
09:33John was the oldest
09:35By 1881, when he was 15
09:38He'd already got convictions
09:40And throughout the 1880s and 90s
09:42He's a professional thief
09:44He's not a man to be messed with
09:47He, on one occasion
09:49With a friend
09:50He's coming out of a pub
09:51And they've taken a dislike to an Irish bloke
09:54An old man
09:55And they batter him in the street
09:57He lives opposite with his daughter
09:58The Irish bloke
09:59His daughter comes over
10:01To try and stop them
10:02Pleading with them
10:03Please leave my father alone
10:04Oh no, they don't stop
10:06Sheldon grabs hold of the poor young woman
10:08By the air
10:09Throws her to the ground
10:10They drag her along the street
10:11Kicking her
10:12That's the kind of man he was
10:14The next oldest brother was Samuel
10:16Only five foot one and a quarter
10:19Despite his small size
10:21He's a nasty, vicious man
10:23And he's scarred with the results of his fights
10:27On his arms, on his legs, on his hands
10:30He's another man that you don't mess with
10:33Like his brother, he has no respect for women
10:35He's one of a group of men
10:37That burst into the house of a 16-year-old young woman
10:40They smash the door down
10:42She flees upstairs
10:43And then, in court it said
10:45They all committed a most disgusting assault upon her
10:49Joseph is the youngest brother
10:51In 1899
10:54He's named as a member of the feared Bar Street Gang
10:57And it's pretty certain
10:59That his two older brothers were in that gang
11:01He's also given as a peaky blinder
11:05So it appears what we have is this rapid rise in street violence
11:09With people like the Sheldons at the forefront
11:12That perception being fuelled, of course
11:15By what we could call early tabloid journalists
11:18Fanning the flames of middle-class panic
11:20In 1899, the gang problem was so bad in Birmingham
11:25That the Chief Constable resigned
11:27And the Birmingham Watch Committee
11:29The counters that ran the police
11:31Fetched over from Ireland
11:33Charles Horton Rafter
11:35Rafter realised
11:38As soon as he'd come in
11:39The Birmingham Police was badly on demand
11:41So he worked on a rapid recruitment campaign
11:46Rafter insisted, though
11:48That his recruits had to be tall
11:51They had to be fit
11:52That meant that these young, fit officers
11:55Could now go about in pairs
11:57In the toughest districts
11:58Where the reign of the ruffian
12:01Was imposed by the Peaky Blinders
12:03Before, many of these areas
12:05Only had one policeman on a beat
12:07Now there's two
12:08They're big, strong lads
12:09And the story that was passed on
12:11For generations in the Birmingham Police
12:14Was that Rafter
12:15Asked three things of his recruits
12:17Can you read?
12:19Can you write?
12:20Can you fight?
12:21Because they'd have to
12:23In 1914
12:33The outbreak of the First World War
12:35Drained Britain of a great many
12:37Of its fighting age men
12:39Perhaps unsurprisingly
12:40The crimes that had been associated
12:43With the Peaky class dropped
12:44But we know that history
12:46Never gives us any short answers
12:48So what else contributed
12:50To this decrease in gang activity
12:52There's organic factors
12:56That are working together
12:59There's a High Church of England vicar
13:01Called Father Pinchard
13:03Who starts a rudimentary boxing club
13:05So they're learning respect, discipline
13:07Football is becoming
13:10A really popular participation sport
13:13As well as a spectator sport
13:14And instead of gathering
13:16On waste ground
13:17To play pitch and toss
13:19They're playing football now
13:20And just as the gangs
13:23Are disappearing
13:24The cinema comes in
13:26And instead of
13:27Joining a street gang
13:28Lads are going to the pictures
13:30Two or three nights a week
13:31But of course
13:34All the social programmes
13:37In the world
13:38Wouldn't be able to erase
13:39Criminality completely
13:41There were some
13:42Who were all ready to
13:43Embedded in a life of crime
13:45To ever step away
13:46And there's one name
13:50That keeps coming up
13:52Again and again
13:53In history books
13:55Police records
13:57And arrest warrants
13:59Not just in Birmingham
14:00But up and down the country
14:02William Kimber
14:06Born 7th of February
14:081882
14:10Born and raised in the
14:11Tough Summer Lane area
14:13Notorious for his peaky blinders
14:15It wouldn't be long
14:16Before Kimber
14:17Would have his first
14:18Running with the law
14:19His mum was an Irish
14:20Bromby
14:21His dad was English
14:22There is no suggestion
14:23That either of them
14:24Were ever involved
14:25In any crime
14:25But Kimber
14:26At the age of 12
14:27Is birched
14:29For a petty theft
14:30Now
14:30That means that he's
14:33Forced to lie down
14:34And they pull down
14:35His trousers
14:36Then they take
14:38A bunch of
14:39Robust
14:40Birch tweaks
14:41Wired at one end
14:42And
14:43Whip him
14:44Again I'm not
14:45Excusing
14:46Billy Kimber's
14:47Later criminality
14:48But at an early age
14:49The state is using
14:50Violence against him
14:52It would be
14:53Remiss to think
14:55That it hasn't had
14:55An impact
14:56Something that significant
14:58In terms of
14:59Being punished
15:01In that way
15:01Possibly being shamed
15:04Shame is something
15:05That we don't talk about
15:06When we look at these acts
15:07We just look at the act itself
15:08And we don't think about
15:09How vulnerable you are
15:10When you're in that position
15:11And the shame
15:13That comes with that
15:14And I think
15:15These are all things
15:17That he
15:17Used as fuel
15:20To get out
15:21And do anything
15:22He could
15:23To get out of that situation
15:25And never experience that again
15:26He obviously learned
15:32To fight early on
15:33The only Brummie I ever met
15:35Who knew him
15:36Said
15:37Carl
15:38He was strong as an ox
15:40And he fought
15:41Like a lion
15:42Then
15:43With that reputation
15:45As the top man
15:46The top fighter
15:47He can control things
15:49When you really get down
15:51To it on the streets
15:52Right here
15:53Right now
15:54Where it matters
15:54Violence is everything
15:55But the threat of violence
15:57Just in a moment
15:59Is even more powerful
16:00That's why people
16:02Are very happy
16:03To let their deeds
16:04To be known
16:05No matter how gruesome
16:07Because this sends a message
16:08It's like psychological warfare
16:10He came from a place
16:12Where fear
16:13Lived all the time
16:16I imagine he lived
16:17In a state of fear
16:19Am I going to get my next meal
16:21Am I going to be beaten up
16:22Are we going to be attacked
16:23As a family
16:24So fear fuelled this
16:27He felt fear
16:28As a young person
16:29And then he wanted
16:30To become the instigator
16:31Of fear
16:32Because that's how
16:33You stayed safe
16:34His favourite punch
16:36Was to the solar plexus
16:37Once you hit somebody
16:39Really hard
16:40In the stomach
16:41It makes them
16:42Soil themselves
16:43Now can you imagine that
16:44Not only are you being beaten up
16:46Not only are you bent over
16:48In pain
16:49But you have been humiliated
16:51He was very brutal
16:52But the difference
16:53You know with him
16:55Was he just had a polish
16:56That showed so much more
16:58Street smarts
17:00Billy Kimber
17:03Was a fighting man
17:06A feared fighting man
17:07Who through his physicality
17:12His fierceness
17:13His viciousness
17:14Became the leader
17:16Of a group of the most feared
17:18Criminals
17:20In England at the time
17:21The Birmingham gang
17:22According to police reports
17:26By 1918
17:27Kimber
17:28Has become the leader
17:29Of several small gangs
17:31But street fighting
17:33Was no longer
17:33The name of the game
17:34Kimber
17:35Was after money
17:36Real money
17:37And where was he
17:38Going to find that
17:39Racing booms
17:49In the immediate aftermath
17:50Of the first world war
17:51Lots of men are coming home
17:53With payments
17:54From the army in Avon
17:55A lot want to drink
17:56And gamble
17:57Enjoy themselves
17:58There's masses of people
18:00Going to racecourses
18:01So all the money
18:03Populated there
18:04And of course
18:05All the people
18:05Who wanted money
18:06Populated there
18:07Behind them
18:08And by the early
18:0920th century
18:10He's got a gang
18:11With his brothers
18:12Joe and Harry
18:13And other hard men
18:15Who were going
18:16To the racecourses
18:17Of the Midlands
18:19Of the north of England
18:20They're known as
18:21The Bromager boys
18:22They pickpocket
18:23And if you
18:24Know you've been
18:24Pickpocketed
18:25And tried to stop them
18:26What's going to happen
18:27To you
18:27They're going to
18:28Duff you up badly
18:29Because there's hardly
18:30Any racecourse security
18:31And the few policemen
18:32There are scared
18:34These gangs
18:37Also blackmail bookmakers
18:38You want to stand
18:40On that pitch
18:40That's a good pitch
18:42You've got to give
18:42Survivor
18:43You've got a stool
18:45You're standing on
18:45Two and sixpence
18:47That's twelve and a half
18:47Pence a race
18:48Six races
18:49That's fifteen shillings
18:50Seventy-five pence
18:51That's as much
18:51As a poor man
18:52Could earn in a week
18:53You've got a blackboard
18:55You write on the blackboard
18:56The names of the horses
18:57What do you need for that?
18:59A stick of chalk
19:00Two and a tanner
19:01Two and sixpence a race
19:02At Epsom
19:03Doncaster
19:04The big meetings
19:06There could be hundreds
19:07Of bookmakers
19:08This is big income
19:10Billy Kimber and his gang
19:12Made at least
19:13Four hundred pound a day
19:14Which translates to
19:16Twenty-two thousand pound a day
19:18About eight million a year
19:20In today's money
19:21Now Billy Kimber
19:25And the Birmingham gang
19:26Were running the racecourse
19:27Rackets in the Midlands
19:28And the North
19:29No challenges
19:30In the Midlands
19:30And the North
19:31Up towards Newcastle
19:32They've got their own gang
19:33And they don't bother with Scotland
19:34Because the Glaswegian gangs
19:36Run the racecourses up there
19:37So it's no longer
19:38Just fighting each other
19:39Over territory
19:40But actually the organisation
19:42Of criminal rackets
19:43Around betting
19:44Gambling
19:45Liquor licences
19:47So they're a really
19:49Distinctive new
19:51Period
19:52Of organised crime
19:53In the city
19:54So in a short space of time
19:56Kimber's influence
19:57Had become widespread
19:59His gang
20:00Known as the Birmingham gang
20:02Had terrorising racecourses
20:04Up and down the country
20:05With no regards
20:06For the consequences
20:07Could this man be the real
20:15Tommy Shelby
20:16By the beginning of the 1920s
20:23Almost all of Britain's racecourses
20:25Are under the control
20:26Of one man
20:27Billy Kimber
20:29The Birmingham gang
20:31And their London allies
20:33Are extorting money
20:35From the bookmakers
20:36But they're racist
20:37They're anti-Semitic
20:39He would target Jewish bookmakers
20:41In the East End
20:42One of whom
20:43Is a man called
20:44Alfie Solomon
20:44Now compared to Kimber
20:49And most other
20:50Members of the gangs
20:52Who deserted in the First World War
20:54Solomon served with honour
20:56He received three service medals
20:58And he comes out
21:00And he becomes a bookmaker
21:01He's a secular Jewish man
21:03His dad's got a green grocery business
21:05In Covent Garden
21:06They had a servant growing up
21:08But he's bookmaking
21:10One event will change the course
21:13Of Alfie Solomon's life
21:14Like no other
21:16And a really vile man
21:19Called Tommy Armstrong
21:21Slugger
21:22Member of the Birmingham gang
21:24Comes past
21:25And he's offering
21:2711 to 4 on a horse
21:29And Armstrong says
21:31I'll have 12 quid on that
21:33On the nod
21:34That meant he wanted it on credit
21:36If it loses
21:38Is he going to pay up
21:39Of course he's not
21:41But if it wins
21:42Does he want paying
21:43Of course he does
21:44Solomon says
21:45No I ain't taking the bet
21:46I'm not having that
21:47Anyway
21:48He kicked off
21:55The horse won
21:56Armstrong's mucky drunk by now
21:59He comes back
22:01Demands his money
22:02Solomon refuses
22:04Armstrong took his field glasses
22:06His heavy viewing glasses
22:08Smashed them
22:11Into the face
22:12Of Alfie Solomon
22:13He collapsed on the floor
22:16In a bloody mess
22:17And then
22:18Armstrong slammed him
22:20In his face
22:22With his boots
22:23Solomon's left there
22:30Prone
22:30His face
22:32A bloody mass
22:33And with several teeth missing
22:35This attack on Alfie Solomon
22:37Transforms him
22:39I've got no evidence at all
22:41Before the attack
22:42That he was a vicious criminal
22:44But afterwards
22:45He certainly becomes one
22:47Alfie Solomon seems to
22:49Suddenly become violent
22:50Out of absolutely nowhere
22:51That shows to me
22:52Underlying rage
22:54And it needed to be unlocked
22:55Someone doesn't just become
22:57Violent one day
23:00Out of absolutely nowhere
23:01For no reason
23:02I mean he had a reason
23:04He was beaten up
23:05But that's not a reason
23:06To start a criminal career
23:08So I think that unlocked
23:09A rage in him
23:10That he had for a very
23:11Very long time
23:12Alfie Solomon
23:14Was just another link
23:15In the chain
23:16There are different groups
23:17So you have the money earners
23:19And you have the people
23:20Who need to enforce that
23:21The enforcers
23:22They'll go out
23:23And they'll do the street work
23:25And they'll break arms
23:26And they'll kill people
23:27And they'll dominate people
23:28And they'll collect the money
23:29But really that's all
23:30They're good for
23:31But the bosses
23:32The real organised crime figures
23:34That do very well
23:34And they'll burn this
23:35And rise up
23:35They can do both
23:36Billy Kimber had gone from
23:44A backstreet thug
23:45A petty criminal
23:47To one of the first organised crime bosses
23:50In England
23:51I think some of the crimes
23:52That we see Billy Kimber
23:54Engaging are narcissistically driven
23:57I think he became a little bit
24:00Addictive to what he was getting
24:01And it felt really really good
24:03And he felt he deserved more
24:04Because of that
24:05And I think that drove him
24:06To then want to go to London
24:07And kind of pursue crime there as well
24:10Kimber and his boys
24:12Had been raking in money
24:13Working the country's racecourses
24:16At their own personal gold mine
24:18But one thing we know about organised crime
24:21Is that when money's flowing
24:22You better watch your bike
24:24March 1921
24:27And London bookmaker
24:30Alfie Solomon
24:31Has just been severely beaten
24:33By Billy Kimber's lieutenant
24:35Tommy Armstrong
24:36Alfie Solomon then turned to the governor
24:40Of the Jewish East End underworld
24:42Edward Emanuel
24:43He was king of the underworld
24:47With the Jewish people of the time
24:48In the East End
24:49He was really cunning
24:50He knew how to put things together
24:52Like Kimber
24:52He's a fearsome fighter
24:55A thug
24:56A man who people are scared of
24:58On one occasion
24:59He has a fight
25:00He gets shot
25:01Even though he's shot
25:03He chases the bloke down the street
25:05And batters him
25:06But he's also like Kimber
25:09Got something up here
25:11He's got a brain
25:12Edward Emanuel
25:13Emanuel is a very clever figure
25:15He's very, very good
25:16At what he does
25:17Because he's one of them people
25:18Who understands
25:19To keep in the background
25:20Is where the real power is
25:21And he was very good
25:23At moving guys around
25:24Which is another real trait
25:27Of an organised crime boss
25:28In my opinion
25:29Edward Emanuel
25:30Is England's first godfather
25:33He wants to get rid of Kimber
25:37And his London allies
25:38From down south
25:39But he's got a team
25:41Of Anglo-Jewish tearaways
25:43But on their own
25:44They're not strong enough
25:45Things move very rapidly
25:47After Solomon turns to Edward Emanuel
25:50For help
25:51Emanuel turns to an up-and-coming
25:53Young gangster
25:54His mum is English
25:58His dad was Italian
26:00But came to England
26:01But came to England
26:01As a youngster
26:02From Palmer
26:03In northern Italy
26:03The Sabini gang
26:05Were quite interesting
26:06They were vicious thugs
26:07There was about 300 members
26:09Of the Sabini gang
26:10At its prime
26:11Where they settled
26:12Was in
26:13Was in Clerkenwell
26:14In Little Italy
26:16Of course
26:16Just the other side
26:18Of the east end of London
26:20He started off as a bouncer
26:22Really
26:22That was his first kind of innings
26:26Into that world
26:26It was a very rough and tumble
26:28Very, you know, in-your-face
26:31Street brawler
26:32And they're called in
26:33To back up
26:35Alfie Solomon
26:36And Emanuel's
26:37Anglo-Jewish tearaways
26:39Against
26:40Billy Kimber's
26:41Birmingham gang
26:42And their London mates
26:43And so began
26:50The biggest gang war
26:52This country had ever known
26:54So the Birmingham gang
26:56And their London allies
26:57Realised Sabini's
26:58Been called in
26:59They corner him
27:00At Greenford trotting track
27:02They're shouting
27:03We're going to murder him
27:04They've got wood
27:05Planks of wood
27:06They're hitting him
27:07Somebody says
27:07Get a gun
27:08Shoot him
27:08Luckily he's saved
27:10By the police
27:11It turns out
27:12That the gun
27:14Wasn't registered
27:15He should have really
27:16Been prosecuted for it
27:17But he got away with it
27:18Throughout the spring
27:20And summer
27:21Of 1921
27:22There are shootings
27:25Beatings
27:26At racecourses
27:27And in London
27:28And around railway stations
27:30In the capital
27:30It really was dangerous
27:32Things are getting out of hand
27:34This isn't good for business
27:35The newspapers
27:36Are picking up on this
27:37Racecourse ruffians
27:39Rots of the turf
27:40All these kind of phrases
27:41Are being used
27:42There's too much attention
27:43From the police
27:44It's interesting isn't it
27:46The press attention
27:47Only really gets going
27:48Once there's a spectacle
27:49When ordinary bookmakers
27:51Were getting extra
27:52No one really paid attention
27:55So
27:57Someone calls
27:59A meeting
28:00It's going to be
28:03At Collier Street
28:04The house in Kings Cross
28:05Where Sabini is now living
28:07They decide
28:11That they'll have to make peace
28:12For the sake of their businesses
28:15Billy Kimber turns up
28:20With some of the McDonald's
28:22They're having a good drink
28:28And he's going to leave
28:30Who turns up
28:31But Alfie Solomon
28:32Now they're racist
28:34They hate Jewish men and women
28:35And Kimber goes for him
28:38Pulls a revolver
28:40And he calls him racist names
28:43There's a scuffle
28:45And in the scuffle
28:47And in the scuffle
28:47As Alfie Solomon's trying to stop
28:49Kimber from shooting him
28:51The gun goes off
28:52And the bullet actually goes
28:54Into Kimber's back
28:55Everybody disperses
28:57Kimber's found unconscious
28:59On the street outside
29:00He's sent to hospital
29:02Allies of Kimber
29:04Told me
29:04That
29:05That night
29:07Members of the London gang
29:09Supporting Kimber
29:10And the Birmingham gang
29:11Surrounded
29:12The hospital
29:13It tells you the power
29:15That Kimber had
29:17They go to court
29:19Solomon admits
29:21That he accidentally shot
29:22Kimber
29:23Billy Kimber is a witness
29:26Who refuses to testify
29:27And all he says is this
29:29If he says he shot me
29:31Well that's up to him
29:32But only cowards
29:34Use revolvers
29:35And I would rather
29:36Blow my brains out
29:37Than use a shooter
29:38The case is dismissed
29:40But the worst
29:43Was yet to come
29:45What do we actually know
29:52About Billy Kimber
29:53We know that Billy Kimber
30:00And the Birmingham gang
30:01Are determined to maintain
30:03Their dominance down south
30:05But Edward Emanuel
30:07And Derby Savine
30:08Have other ideas
30:09Epsom
30:11Probably the biggest meeting
30:12Of the year
30:13The Birmingham gang decide
30:15They're going to really show
30:17Who's in charge
30:19The Epsom Derby
30:20One of the biggest racing events
30:22Of the year
30:22Was attended
30:23By over 200,000 people
30:26But get this
30:27They had no security
30:28This is a gift
30:30For Billy Kimber
30:31Birmingham gang members
30:33Are going down there
30:34Terrorising bookmakers
30:36After racing
30:37Some Leeds bookmakers
30:39Are leaving
30:40When they get attacked
30:42By 20 odd
30:43Really vicious
30:45Horrible men
30:47From Birmingham
30:48They had been paying
30:49Protection to Kimber before
30:51But it looks like
30:52They're moving towards
30:54Sabine
30:54And to Solomon
30:55The Birmingham gang
30:57Really inflict
30:59Terrible injuries on them
31:01And then they decide
31:02To go for a drink
31:03In a pub
31:04Which is where
31:06They're eventually arrested
31:07Out of the 20 odd
31:0917 men are sent down
31:11These 17 men
31:13These 17 men belong to
31:14Different little crews
31:15Within the Birmingham gang
31:16That weakens Kimber
31:18That weakens Kimber
31:18He's lost 17 of his most feared fighters
31:22He then decides
31:25He's going to make a massive show of strength
31:28At Bath in the summer
31:29The railway station
31:32The railway station at Bath
31:32Suddenly is surrounded
31:36By a horde of Birmingham hard men
31:39Many of them not part of the Birmingham gang
31:41But are attracted to Bath
31:43By the opportunity
31:45Of having a pot
31:47Having a go
31:48At the Londoners
31:49And particularly the Jewish Londoners
31:51Kimber's there
31:53His main fighters
31:54Who are not in prison now
31:56Are there
31:56They start beating up
31:58Jewish bookmakers
31:59And Kimber
32:01And another horrible
32:02Birmingham gang member
32:03Batter
32:05Alfie Solomon
32:06Who goes down
32:08They also
32:09Attack his clerk
32:11An inoffensive bloke
32:12Called Charles Bild
32:13They hit him with everything
32:15And then somebody smashes him
32:17With a sandbag
32:18The poor bloke goes down
32:20And eventually when the police
32:21Come to save him
32:22He's unconscious
32:23Covered in blood
32:25Billy Kimber gets charged
32:27For that assault
32:27But in September 1921
32:30When he goes to court
32:32No one shows up
32:33To give evidence against him
32:35So the case is dismissed
32:37But before they leave
32:39Kimber's lawyer announces to the court
32:41Don't worry
32:42There'll be no more of this trouble
32:44Because this has all been sorted out
32:47Cleverly
32:48Edward Emanuel
32:49Starts
32:51The bookmakers protection association
32:53To stop the ruffianism
32:55On the turf
32:56To stop the blackmailing
32:58Of bookmakers
32:59Well
33:00What then happens
33:01Is the jockey club like this
33:03They're really upset
33:04By all the
33:04Bad newspaper reports
33:06People are going to stop
33:07Coming racing
33:08If they don't watch it
33:09So they back this new organisation
33:11Which appears to be legitimate
33:13The police then are quite happy
33:14Because they can say
33:15Yes
33:15This is a legitimate organisation
33:17But what does he do?
33:19He employs
33:19Darby Sabini
33:21And his men
33:22As stewards
33:23To enforce order
33:25But this was a very clever strategic move
33:28To protect the Jewish bookmakers
33:29That were constantly being threatened
33:31And attacked
33:32And preyed upon
33:33By of course
33:34Billy Kimber
33:35This also legitimised
33:38Darby Sabini
33:39And everything that they needed to do next
33:41Including protecting
33:43All their organisation
33:45Essentially
33:46The Sabinis
33:47Are untouchable
33:48Because the jockey club
33:49In control of flat racing
33:51And the police
33:52Like the idea
33:53Of an official organisation
33:55Which they can support
33:57Emmanuel has won
33:59The Birmingham boys
34:02Have been outwitted
34:03They can't operate
34:05Down south anymore
34:06So
34:08The boys insist
34:09That no southern bookmakers
34:11Can operate
34:11In the Midlands
34:12Or the north
34:13Ever again
34:14It says here
34:15A meeting is finally called
34:18At Beresford's house
34:20To discuss terms of a truce
34:21By September
34:26Newspapers are reporting
34:29That the gangs
34:30Have divided England
34:31Between them
34:31That the Sabinis
34:33Would have the south of England
34:35And that the Birmingham gang
34:37Would have the Midlands
34:38And the north
34:39This means
34:40That till the mid 1920s
34:42The Sabinis
34:43Rule supreme
34:44On southern England's
34:46Racecourses
34:47And those in London
34:48But that was the time
34:49For Billy Kimber
34:50To walk away
34:51What's fascinating about Billy Kimber
34:58And the Birmingham gang
34:59Is that as soon as he steps away
35:02The whole organisation disintegrates
35:05They're all fighting each other again
35:07Just like the slogging gangs
35:08Without him at the centre
35:11It all just falls apart
35:13Now Emmanuel
35:14Now Emmanuel
35:14He's moving slowly
35:16Away from gangsterism
35:18Into legitimacy
35:20And he sees an opportunity
35:22To start up
35:23A legitimate printing company
35:26Which will print all the printing needs
35:28Of the racecourse bookmakers
35:30Their tickets
35:31Instead of the chalk
35:33Runners
35:34Racing lists
35:35Is clever enough
35:36To step back
35:37Pull the strings
35:38Of the Sabinis
35:39Make money
35:40But start up
35:41A legitimate printing company
35:43The Portsea Printing Press
35:44Now
35:45Down south
35:46The Jockey Club
35:47Have decided
35:48They've got to take action
35:49They bring in a new force
35:51Of security men
35:52And the Sabinis
35:53Are gradually pushed out
35:54But what they do
35:56They regroup
35:58In Soho
35:59They take over
36:01The protection rackets
36:02Of the illegal drinking clubs
36:04And the Spielers
36:05They also
36:06Extorted protection money
36:08From restaurants owners
36:10Publicans
36:11Not only
36:12In
36:13Soho
36:14But in their heartlands
36:15Of King's Cross
36:16And Clerkenwell
36:17Albert Dines
36:24And Bert Marsh
36:25Leading towards
36:26Jack Spot
36:27And Billy Hill
36:28He died as a broken man
36:31In 1950
36:32Alfie Solomon
36:34Was targeted by other gangs
36:35Into the mid-1930s
36:37And unable to get
36:38Police protection
36:39He then disappeared
36:41Kimber, so it's said
36:45About 1926
36:47Shoots through the windows
36:48Of the Griffin
36:49One of the Sabinis
36:50Hangouts
36:50And flees to America
36:52Where it's said
36:53He kills a man
36:54And then he goes off to Chicago
36:56Well who's running Chicago
36:58In 26?
37:00Al Capone
37:00Billy Kimber
37:02Had a real depth
37:03Of a person
37:04And you see this
37:05All the way through
37:06His journey
37:06From the street smarts
37:08To the brutality
37:09To the real
37:10CEO managerial decisions
37:13That he made
37:13Even back then
37:14Which of course
37:15Positioned him
37:16As one of the leading lights
37:17Of organised crime
37:18In the UK
37:19Kimber comes back
37:20By now
37:22He's married
37:22To Elizabeth Garnham
37:25The sister
37:26Of one of his
37:27Pals
37:28From Chapel Market
37:29And he was then
37:30Clever enough
37:31To realise
37:32When he was beaten
37:32That he needed
37:34To go legitimate
37:34I think he was
37:36Pushed into that
37:37As well by his wife
37:38Who like Sabine's wife
37:39Wanted middle class
37:41Respectability
37:42For their children
37:43Kimber
37:46Would eventually
37:47Settle in Devon
37:48In Torquay
37:49In a house
37:50Overlooking the bay
37:51He too
37:52Would reinvent himself
37:54As a legitimate
37:54Race course bookmaker
37:56An advert he took out
37:58With the local paper
37:59Would read
37:59Bet with Bill Kimber
38:01A man who's reliable
38:02And there's a real irony here
38:07Because he becomes
38:08A leading member
38:09Of the local
38:11Devon
38:12Bookmakers Protection Association
38:15The very organisation
38:16That in effect
38:17Brought him down
38:18Started by Kimber's nemesis
38:21Edward Emanuel
38:22As a means for him
38:23To take over down south
38:25But the BPA
38:26By the 30s
38:27Has become
38:28A legitimate
38:29And respectable organisation
38:31We know that
38:33Eventually Billy did retire
38:35But prior to that
38:36Psychologically
38:36He was on guard
38:37His whole life
38:38Right from living
38:40In the slums in Birmingham
38:41And throughout his entire
38:42Kind of criminal career
38:43I think what that does
38:45To a person
38:46Is it
38:47Sets them in this
38:48Constant sense of
38:50Fight or flight
38:50Which means that
38:51Your adrenal system
38:52Is activated
38:53Which means that
38:53You can never really rest
38:55And I think that
38:56That is only sustainable
38:57For so long
38:59In terms of a person's
39:00Lifespan
39:01I don't think it's
39:03Something that you
39:03Can do forever
39:04Kimber eventually dies in 1945
39:10In a nursing home
39:11And he died
39:14One of the last
39:16Of the real
39:17Peaky Blinders
39:18If we look at
39:19If we look at
39:19How Darby Sabini
39:21Alfie Solomon
39:22Billy Kimber
39:23Are portrayed in the series
39:24There is a fundamental difference
39:27Darby Sabini
39:28Is depicted as a
39:29Bella figura
39:30Like a Sicilian mafia
39:32Don
39:33Eleganently dressed
39:35With a walking cane
39:36He wasn't
39:37He didn't wear fancy clothes
39:39He wasn't elegant
39:40He wasn't a
39:41Bella figura
39:42He wore a flat calf
39:44A collarless shirt
39:46Working man's clothes
39:47He didn't speak Italian
39:49He regarded himself
39:50As an Englishman
39:51Alfie Solomon
39:52Is portrayed as
39:54An orthodox Jewish man
39:55He wasn't
39:56He was from a
39:57Secular Jewish background
39:59Whose family had been
40:00Settled in England
40:00For generations
40:01Billy Kimber
40:02Is given as a
40:03Londoner
40:03A small Londoner
40:05He wasn't
40:05He was a Brummie
40:06I think people like
40:08The romanticism
40:09The glamour
40:11Of it all
40:12And this suggestion
40:13Of a different society
40:17In Birmingham
40:19That people might not
40:20Have otherwise been aware of
40:21I think people will
40:23Always be drawn
40:24To gangsters
40:25Because in many ways
40:27They feel like
40:28The stuff of myth
40:29Partly because
40:31These men that we see
40:33And it's usually men
40:35Sometimes women
40:36But usually men
40:37Are very
40:38Good at
40:41Creating stories
40:42They're very good
40:44At creating legacy
40:45And human beings
40:47We like stories
40:48They create a mystery
40:50And I think we're drawn
40:51To understanding
40:52That
40:53What lessons
40:55Should we take
40:55From the real
40:56Peaky Blinders
40:57And the gangs
40:59Of the 1920s
41:00Most importantly
41:02Gang members
41:03And organised gangsters
41:05Are not meant
41:06To be admired
41:07These were not glamorous
41:08Anti-heroes
41:09Who people would look to
41:11For support
41:11They weren't
41:13Robin Hood characters
41:14That looked after the poor
41:15They preyed upon the poor
41:17They were feared members
41:19Of the working class
41:20They didn't look after
41:21To the poor
41:21The Peaky Blinders
41:22They beat them up
41:22They bullied them
41:23Sabini
41:24Kimber
41:25Emmanuel
41:26Took money
41:28From poorer people
41:29Whenever they could
41:30I suppose it's not
41:31Really surprising
41:32That a fictional portrayal
41:34Of a criminal organisation
41:35Doesn't match
41:36With the reality
41:36After all
41:38It's the job
41:40Of historical fiction
41:41To impart glamour
41:42To the everyday
41:43To make it exciting
41:45But what's fascinating
41:48Isn't so much
41:49That a brilliant
41:50Television series
41:51Found a devoted audience
41:52Is how little
41:53Attitudes have changed
41:55We're still convinced
41:57That criminality
41:58Is largely
41:59A working class phenomenon
42:00And street gangs
42:02They're not a thing
42:03Of the past
42:04They exist today
42:05In every city
42:06In the world
42:07But why?
42:10Perhaps there is
42:11Something in hating people
42:12That makes them want
42:13To seek out fellowship
42:14Community
42:15And when none exists
42:17Construct their own
42:19But I suppose
42:20That's why we need
42:21The legends
42:21For when reality
42:23Is not to our taste
42:24Legends
42:26Don't often leave room
42:28For ordinary folk
42:29I remember
42:45The sickness
42:46Was forever
42:48I remember
42:51Snow videos
42:54Close up
42:56Danvers
42:57The distances
42:58We cover
43:00The fistfights
43:01On the beach
43:03I'm at the beach
43:05Thecje
43:06That's why we know
43:07That's why they workshop
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