The Peaky Blinders
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The Peaky Blinders
11 years 7 months ago
Just finished watching a drama series about Birmingham Gangsters(bookmakers) on the BBC,if you guys use torrent sites its well worth a download...
Below is an extract from the internet about the real Peaky Blinders....
The appearance of the notorious “Boys” from Brummagem was dreaded by race-goers at the little meetings that abounded across England.
It was with no wonder, for they were violent men who stole from onlookers who had come to watch and bet on horse racing and who extorted protection money from bookmakers.
Major Fairfax-Blakeborough, a noted writer on all things to do with “the Turf”, declared that by the 1880s “the Birmingham Boys had so lost all honour, decency, and all idea of anything but robbery, that they became a real menace”.
Feared as “desperate, dangerous, daredevil fellows”, on one occasion their arrival in force at Scarborough, with their allies from Leeds, “created such alarm that they were collected by the police before racing commenced, marched down to the railway station, put on to the next train for home and sent off”.
But the Birmingham Boys never forgot when they had been bested and always gained a bloody revenge.
In 1893, and again with their bully-boy mates from Leeds, they returned to the Yorkshire sea-side town and caused mayhem. In a well-organised attack, some of them stormed the turnstiles to the main enclosure and stole all the day’s takings.
The few police officers on duty were overwhelmed and dozens of ruffians also climbed over the rails which divided the course from the paddock. They then took watches and money from spectators and “held up” bookmakers.
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Below is an extract from the internet about the real Peaky Blinders....
The appearance of the notorious “Boys” from Brummagem was dreaded by race-goers at the little meetings that abounded across England.
It was with no wonder, for they were violent men who stole from onlookers who had come to watch and bet on horse racing and who extorted protection money from bookmakers.
Major Fairfax-Blakeborough, a noted writer on all things to do with “the Turf”, declared that by the 1880s “the Birmingham Boys had so lost all honour, decency, and all idea of anything but robbery, that they became a real menace”.
Feared as “desperate, dangerous, daredevil fellows”, on one occasion their arrival in force at Scarborough, with their allies from Leeds, “created such alarm that they were collected by the police before racing commenced, marched down to the railway station, put on to the next train for home and sent off”.
But the Birmingham Boys never forgot when they had been bested and always gained a bloody revenge.
In 1893, and again with their bully-boy mates from Leeds, they returned to the Yorkshire sea-side town and caused mayhem. In a well-organised attack, some of them stormed the turnstiles to the main enclosure and stole all the day’s takings.
The few police officers on duty were overwhelmed and dozens of ruffians also climbed over the rails which divided the course from the paddock. They then took watches and money from spectators and “held up” bookmakers.
READ THE FULL ARTICLE
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