Peaky Blinders

[Sterling Moose]

A little later in time but interesting nevertheless - the TV series looks like it might be worth a look:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-24047750

[Dewbakuk]

Yeah, 1920's unfortunately but I've still set a recording for it. The Victorian period wouldn't have been as interesting, they were just as vicious but didn't have the guns, so threw rocks at each other or bashed peoples heads in with bricks. Guns look better on TV and the 20's were when they started to shift to organised crime etc, rather than being mobs* on the street.

*Those mobs could get damned deadly though, in the 1890's there was a period where multiple gangs were fighting for turf and there could be in the region of 500 Peaky Blinders (generic term for them, not the name of a gang, although I think that's what they've done in the TV show) on the streets having a maul. They didn't care about innocent bystanders either. Plenty of records of old women or kids etc getting caught in the crossfire and being hospitalised.

[EndTransmission]

Oh, I'd not heard of that one... I will have to give it a go over the weekend

[Tehet]

Finally watched last weeks first episode last night...Excellent

Chinese, Italian and Brummie Gangs.

Shades of the Untouchables, with Sam Neill as the Irish Inspector sent to clean up the 'Fenians, Communists and Gangsters'. The local police force is seen as being in cahoots with the gangs, so he bring his own force of Irish hardmen to 'help' them rediscover their reputation.

Quite a bit of violence as you would expect when every man involved is a Great War veteran and the Blinders wear flatcaps ringed with razors! Well worth watching.   

[AndyT]

Just watched the first episode of series 2 - with exploding prams!

Surely a gang of armed nannies would be a terrifying prospect ? 

[Steve F]

Just to note that there is already a 4-page long thread about this series at
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=57818.0;topicseen