0:00:06 > 0:00:101966 has always been held up as an iconic year for London.
0:00:10 > 0:00:14Now, 50 years on, I want to see if it really was that special.
0:00:14 > 0:00:17I have chosen five of my favourite photographs that capture
0:00:17 > 0:00:21what it was like living in '66.
0:00:21 > 0:00:23They tell the story of fashion.
0:00:23 > 0:00:28This was the launch of the world's first ever supermodel.
0:00:28 > 0:00:30The changing face of music.
0:00:30 > 0:00:32The Stones were dangerous and challenging.
0:00:32 > 0:00:34Cultural celebrations.
0:00:34 > 0:00:36The Calypso was alive.
0:00:36 > 0:00:37The Latin music was alive.
0:00:37 > 0:00:39And tensions.
0:00:39 > 0:00:40The prejudice.
0:00:40 > 0:00:43No Irish, no dogs and no blacks.
0:00:43 > 0:00:45Then there is crime and gangsters.
0:00:45 > 0:00:49Family firms who operated in London, like the Krays and the Richardsons,
0:00:49 > 0:00:53both of whom my father worked for.
0:00:53 > 0:00:56We will see how they affected the lives of ordinary Londoners.
0:00:56 > 0:00:57And football.
0:00:57 > 0:01:00Well, we all know what happened at Wembley in 1966.
0:01:00 > 0:01:03NEWSREEL: Geoff Hurst achieved the hat-trick.
0:01:03 > 0:01:06To beat the Germans, oh, that was just absolute quality.
0:01:15 > 0:01:20In April 1966, Time Magazine declared London the swinging
0:01:20 > 0:01:23capital of the world.
0:01:23 > 0:01:25It was Swinging London and it was swinging
0:01:25 > 0:01:26all over the place.
0:01:26 > 0:01:28The boys, the girls, they were swinging.
0:01:28 > 0:01:31We were all swinging.
0:01:31 > 0:01:33Fashion was happening, photography was happening,
0:01:33 > 0:01:34hairdressing was happening.
0:01:34 > 0:01:37And most important of all, music was happening.
0:01:37 > 0:01:39And London swung.
0:01:39 > 0:01:42But was London really swinging for everyone?
0:01:42 > 0:01:44It wasn't swinging for us at all.
0:01:44 > 0:01:46It wasn't really that different.
0:01:46 > 0:01:48Time Magazine had turned the whole of London into this
0:01:48 > 0:01:51kind of Tinseltown.
0:01:51 > 0:01:55Creatively capturing it all were a new breed of photographers.
0:01:55 > 0:01:58This was an era of absolutely brilliant
0:01:58 > 0:02:01black and white photography.
0:02:01 > 0:02:04The photographers were helping to build the fantasy
0:02:04 > 0:02:06of Swinging London.
0:02:06 > 0:02:09The only way that people saw their heroes was through the work
0:02:09 > 0:02:12of these photographers.
0:02:12 > 0:02:15So they were, you know, they were superstars.
0:02:16 > 0:02:19As photographers were challenging traditions, so too was
0:02:19 > 0:02:22London's fashion scene.
0:02:22 > 0:02:25Many young writers and journalists were keen to capture this cultural
0:02:25 > 0:02:32wave, and perhaps no one was more successful than Deirdre McSharry.
0:02:32 > 0:02:35When I was 30, I was made woman's editor of the Daily Express,
0:02:35 > 0:02:38when it had a circulation of four million, with a huge budget
0:02:38 > 0:02:40and very good photography.
0:02:40 > 0:02:44I had an office of 12 people, I had no idea what to do with them.
0:02:44 > 0:02:48I was realising the power of the picture over the words,
0:02:48 > 0:02:50or as well as the words.
0:02:50 > 0:02:54This was the launch of the world's first ever supermodel.
0:02:54 > 0:02:56Named Twiggy.
0:02:59 > 0:03:01This wasn't a face you could turn away from.
0:03:01 > 0:03:06This was a face you had to address.
0:03:06 > 0:03:09I started with Leonard in '63.
0:03:09 > 0:03:12To have been that lucky to have been there in the '60s,
0:03:12 > 0:03:15we were treated like pop stars.
0:03:15 > 0:03:19In '66, Daniel was a young hair colourist at cutting edge
0:03:19 > 0:03:21Mayfair salon Leonard's.
0:03:21 > 0:03:28This young girl came in and she had ginger
0:03:28 > 0:03:31This young girl came in and she had ginger hair down to here and it
0:03:31 > 0:03:33absolutely looked awful, but she had the most incredible face.
0:03:33 > 0:03:35We took that hair away.
0:03:35 > 0:03:38Leonard cut my hair very short and he got a friend of his,
0:03:38 > 0:03:41Barry Lategan, to take some photos of me and Leonard hung them up
0:03:41 > 0:03:44in his salon and Deirdre McSharry of the Daily Express saw them.
0:03:44 > 0:03:46She already had this notion of herself with these
0:03:46 > 0:03:49little eyelashes painted on.
0:03:49 > 0:03:52Because of the brilliance of the photographey,
0:03:52 > 0:03:54Because of the brilliance of the photography,
0:03:54 > 0:03:56they looked almost like pieces of sculpture.
0:03:56 > 0:04:00So I sat up late at night, typing, saying, "This is the face of 1966."
0:04:01 > 0:04:04She became an instant phenomenon.
0:04:04 > 0:04:08We had no idea how big it was going to be.
0:04:08 > 0:04:13When those Twiggy pages came out, several eminent columnists said,
0:04:13 > 0:04:17"Oh, what is this stuff?, you know, these terrible clothes,
0:04:17 > 0:04:18"on these thin little girls?"
0:04:18 > 0:04:21They wouldn't say working class, but that is what they meant.
0:04:21 > 0:04:24This was the other world that was breaking into
0:04:24 > 0:04:28London in the mid 1960s, it was part of the revolution.
0:04:28 > 0:04:32Having become the pin-up girl of a generation overnight,
0:04:32 > 0:04:36Twiggy soon capitalised on her fame by starting her own fashion label.
0:04:36 > 0:04:41And London's fashion scene was booming.
0:04:41 > 0:04:44The clothing.
0:04:44 > 0:04:48The clothes, man, I mean guys' clothes, ladies' clothes,
0:04:48 > 0:04:51oh, man, it was just fantastic.
0:04:51 > 0:04:56People around the world were buying these clothes
0:04:56 > 0:04:59to look like English kids.
0:04:59 > 0:05:03Can you dig it? They're looking like English kids!
0:05:03 > 0:05:08But how was it for Londoners looking on from afar?
0:05:08 > 0:05:08I remember Twiggy, I remember reading about her in my magazines
0:05:11 > 0:05:14I remember Twiggy, I remember reading about her in my magazines
0:05:14 > 0:05:17but I don't remember anybody going, "I have got to run
0:05:17 > 0:05:18around looking like her."
0:05:18 > 0:05:21Twiggy and a lot of the Americans were coming over and a lot
0:05:21 > 0:05:22of the trust fund hippies.
0:05:22 > 0:05:25It is fine for them, they are knocking about the West End
0:05:25 > 0:05:26spending thousands.
0:05:26 > 0:05:28We had to get a bus to the West End.
0:05:28 > 0:05:30NEWSREEL: Swinging Carnaby Street, the trendiest fun fashion centre
0:05:30 > 0:05:32in the world.
0:05:32 > 0:05:34Yes, this is the place where it all happens.
0:05:34 > 0:05:36The Carnaby Street thing is a bit of a misnomer,
0:05:36 > 0:05:39because earlier on it was brilliant, you could buy individual pieces
0:05:39 > 0:05:41of clothing and by '66, they were already made
0:05:41 > 0:05:42and we wouldn't go near it.
0:05:42 > 0:05:44No, I can't find Swinging London at all actually.
0:05:44 > 0:05:48It's in the shop windows, but it is not on the streets.
0:05:48 > 0:05:50About '66, you had the girls in Beaver,
0:05:50 > 0:05:52didn't you, shops like that?
0:05:52 > 0:05:56I used to go to High Street Ken a lot and look in the shops.
0:05:56 > 0:05:58And I bought in C, I didn't buy in the boutiques,
0:05:58 > 0:06:00because I had to be careful what I brought home.
0:06:00 > 0:06:03It would be like, "You are spending money on this?"
0:06:03 > 0:06:05For people like Barbara, a teenager at the time,
0:06:05 > 0:06:07following the latest trends meant one thing.
0:06:07 > 0:06:09Utilising her mother's dressmaking skills.
0:06:09 > 0:06:13Really trendy stuff, you couldn't buy at a reasonable price.
0:06:13 > 0:06:16If you wanted something up to the minute,
0:06:16 > 0:06:20you pretty much made it.
0:06:20 > 0:06:23And for those who worked, like Mickey and Fred,
0:06:23 > 0:06:25London's economic revival put more cash in their hands.
0:06:25 > 0:06:28As the wages went up, we used to go to a tailor,
0:06:28 > 0:06:31about five of us on a Saturday, to get measured up for a suit,
0:06:31 > 0:06:33and we put ten bob deposit on.
0:06:33 > 0:06:36The first suit, would been a mohair suit, would have been ?27.
0:06:36 > 0:06:38You are talking about five or six weeks to have it made,
0:06:38 > 0:06:42so you go back to a fitting and put another ten bob on.
0:06:42 > 0:06:45And you spent a lot of money, if you could, on clothes.
0:06:45 > 0:06:48I used to give my mum a couple of bob, but she would always
0:06:48 > 0:06:49give it back to me.
0:06:49 > 0:06:52That was a real occasion, when you have that suit made
0:06:52 > 0:06:55then you wore it at the Lyceum, it felt brilliant, felt wonderful.
0:06:55 > 0:06:59Rising wages were going on, more than just fashion.
0:06:59 > 0:07:03There were big changes on the music scene in '66 as the Beatles
0:07:03 > 0:07:07played their last official live show.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09The previous year, I had sat next to my mum,
0:07:09 > 0:07:12and I wasn't allowed to scream, I had to just sit there.
0:07:12 > 0:07:13And there was nothing more boring.
0:07:13 > 0:07:16Everybody screaming and you have actually got to sit there.
0:07:16 > 0:07:18It was the worst show I have ever seen.
0:07:18 > 0:07:21London bands like the Who, the Kinks and the Rolling Stones
0:07:21 > 0:07:23were now leading the way.
0:07:23 > 0:07:26I was listening to the Stones once and my dad came in and said,
0:07:26 > 0:07:29"Why are you listening to that filth?"
0:07:29 > 0:07:34The Stones were dangerous and challenging and confrontational.
0:07:34 > 0:07:38In '66, I was 20, so I was very young, they were very young,
0:07:38 > 0:07:40we were experimenting.
0:07:40 > 0:07:46It was the very peak of their initial success.
0:07:46 > 0:07:53It was an extraordinary moment and has become so famous.
0:07:53 > 0:07:55I mean, it's such a famous image of the band.
0:07:55 > 0:07:58Gered managed to capture the image at first light on a bright
0:07:58 > 0:08:01winter's morning in '66.
0:08:01 > 0:08:04We'd been recording all night, starting at about ten o'clock
0:08:04 > 0:08:07in the evening and finishing at five, six o'clock,
0:08:07 > 0:08:11and I had this idea that it would be a great time to shoot the band,
0:08:11 > 0:08:14that early in the morning look after an all-night session,
0:08:14 > 0:08:18world-weary, stoned, hungover, worn out.
0:08:18 > 0:08:22They just looked just how I thought the Stones should look.
0:08:22 > 0:08:27And we came up here to Primrose Hill to try to capture the early light,
0:08:27 > 0:08:31London laid out in front of us, just looking extraordinary.
0:08:32 > 0:08:36And we probably had 20 minutes of good time before they started
0:08:36 > 0:08:38whingeing and complaining.
0:08:38 > 0:08:40And that was it.
0:08:40 > 0:08:42And I got the cover for Between The Buttons.
0:08:44 > 0:08:46# Doing things I used to do...
0:08:46 > 0:08:48This image, it was lost.
0:08:48 > 0:08:52This image never came back from the printer.
0:08:52 > 0:08:55So this actual transparency has never been seen.
0:08:55 > 0:08:58And that saddens me, but fortunately,
0:08:58 > 0:09:06I have got some fantastic outtakes.
0:09:06 > 0:09:07MUSIC: As Tears Go By
0:09:07 > 0:09:10I wanted to contribute something, so I put a piece of glass in front
0:09:10 > 0:09:14of my lens and I smeared the glass with Vaseline and if you do it side
0:09:14 > 0:09:17to side, everything dissolves, so that is how I got this effect
0:09:17 > 0:09:22here, where the band appeared to be sort of part of the environment,
0:09:22 > 0:09:27in a sort of druggy acidy feel.
0:09:29 > 0:09:32I had never taken acid, so I was basing it all
0:09:32 > 0:09:36on hearsay and what I felt that it might be like.
0:09:36 > 0:09:40While Gered didn't care take drugs,
0:09:40 > 0:09:41While Gered didn't take drugs,
0:09:41 > 0:09:43a culture of drug-taking was starting to emerge.
0:09:43 > 0:09:46In the '60s, you had purple hearts, and now and again you would see
0:09:46 > 0:09:48someone high as a kite, but very rare.
0:09:48 > 0:09:51For policeman Bob Dixon, there was a whole new world
0:09:51 > 0:09:53for him to get used to.
0:09:53 > 0:09:55We occasionally arrested people and they would have purple hearts
0:09:55 > 0:09:58in their pockets,
0:09:58 > 0:10:01which used to fit beautifully inside a packet of Polos.
0:10:01 > 0:10:06How many purple heart do you need to stay up all night?
0:10:06 > 0:10:0720-30.
0:10:07 > 0:10:09I've never had any, but...
0:10:09 > 0:10:11I think that one was bombers, or something.
0:10:11 > 0:10:19Bombers, the black bombers, and tubes.
0:10:19 > 0:10:21Bombers, the black bombers, and doobs.
0:10:21 > 0:10:23And they were always chewing chewing gum and I wondered why.
0:10:23 > 0:10:25It makes your breath stink.
0:10:25 > 0:10:27By all accounts, it was the nightclubs that were really
0:10:27 > 0:10:28exploding into life.
0:10:28 > 0:10:31Being a young man, I would be hitting the nightclubs at night.
0:10:31 > 0:10:33It was not a time to stay at home.
0:10:33 > 0:10:34It was hard to be married.
0:10:34 > 0:10:37Honestly, if you got married that year, there is so much action
0:10:37 > 0:10:40going on out there, you know what I mean?
0:10:40 > 0:10:42It was nonstop.
0:10:42 > 0:10:44There was no thought about it, if you had
0:10:44 > 0:10:49two or three hours' sleep, you just carried on.
0:10:49 > 0:10:50Friday was a lot younger.
0:10:50 > 0:10:53Friday night, if you went out, it was a lot younger.
0:10:53 > 0:10:55Saturday night was your mum and dad's night.
0:10:55 > 0:10:59Five or six o'clock in the morning, it is packed full of people.
0:11:01 > 0:11:04It is packed with people at five or six o'clock in the morning,
0:11:04 > 0:11:06you know what I mean?
0:11:07 > 0:11:09The Marquee club, you know what I mean?
0:11:09 > 0:11:11Everybody knew the Marquee club.
0:11:11 > 0:11:15You wanted to get in and feel the vibe, you know what I mean?
0:11:15 > 0:11:17The Flamingo club.
0:11:17 > 0:11:18You know what I mean?
0:11:18 > 0:11:20The Scene club.
0:11:20 > 0:11:22You know what I mean?
0:11:25 > 0:11:27I was in the United States Air Force,
0:11:27 > 0:11:29that is how I got over to England.
0:11:29 > 0:11:33I joined to get away from Vietnam.
0:11:33 > 0:11:34I didn't want to go to Vietnam.
0:11:34 > 0:11:38Geno was part of a big international cultural influx,
0:11:38 > 0:11:41which some of London's club scenes were quick to pick up on.
0:11:41 > 0:11:45Particularly popular was music from the West Indies.
0:11:45 > 0:11:49The music was driving.
0:11:49 > 0:11:49The music was thriving.
0:11:49 > 0:11:51The Calypso was alive.
0:11:51 > 0:11:52The Latin music was alive.
0:11:52 > 0:11:53Going through the clubs.
0:11:53 > 0:11:56Reggae came out and went into the dance halls.
0:11:56 > 0:11:58There was a club called the Roaring Twenties
0:11:58 > 0:12:02and it was the first black club I ever went to in my life
0:12:02 > 0:12:04and it was the first time I ever heard reggae music.
0:12:04 > 0:12:06I didn't know what it was,
0:12:06 > 0:12:08I heard this beat and the black fellas were all dancing.
0:12:08 > 0:12:11Latin bands, the combos, the trios,
0:12:11 > 0:12:14the one-drummer/singer like myself, working through.
0:12:14 > 0:12:16It was just wonderful.
0:12:22 > 0:12:24I really didn't want to come to England.
0:12:24 > 0:12:26There was an opportunity, a one-way ticket across
0:12:26 > 0:12:30the Atlantic and here I am.
0:12:30 > 0:12:35I thought I would come for five years, I never expected
0:12:35 > 0:12:36to spend five decades.
0:12:36 > 0:12:38After the war, there was such a lack of manpower.
0:12:38 > 0:12:41A lot of people from the West Indies came to live here.
0:12:41 > 0:12:44They were working class people with all the rest of the people
0:12:44 > 0:12:46who were already here.
0:12:46 > 0:12:50As the West Indian community became more established,
0:12:50 > 0:12:53its culture flowed onto the West London streets.
0:12:53 > 0:12:591966 is the official year the Notting Hill Carnival was born.
0:12:59 > 0:13:03We were developing a federation of a Caribbean nation that didn't
0:13:03 > 0:13:05happen in the Caribbean,
0:13:05 > 0:13:10but was taking actually movement here in the United Kingdom.
0:13:10 > 0:13:17It was a getting to know period, celebration.
0:13:17 > 0:13:19I am glad the police is in focus.
0:13:19 > 0:13:22Those of us who came through that period know that the police
0:13:22 > 0:13:26were doing a lot of dangerous things.
0:13:27 > 0:13:29We would come in here, very young, and enjoy
0:13:29 > 0:13:32the atmosphere and see what was going on in Portobello Road.
0:13:32 > 0:13:37Running almost the entire length of Notting Hill from north to south
0:13:37 > 0:13:39is Portobello Road.
0:13:39 > 0:13:42From being quite a working-class lad, to come here and see this
0:13:42 > 0:13:46was just like another world for me.
0:13:46 > 0:13:47And from that moment,
0:13:47 > 0:13:51I just decided I would really like to work down here.
0:13:51 > 0:13:54I am past retirement age now and I still don't want to give up.
0:13:54 > 0:13:56That is how much I love the road.
0:13:56 > 0:13:59While London has always had better and worse off
0:13:59 > 0:14:00living side by side,
0:14:00 > 0:14:03back in '66, the extremes were more pronounced,
0:14:03 > 0:14:06especially in Notting Hill.
0:14:06 > 0:14:08This end, the south end, was always considered
0:14:08 > 0:14:12a little bit more posher, if you like, and once you got over
0:14:12 > 0:14:15Westbourne Road, it was, like, more the Badlands.
0:14:15 > 0:14:19You had to watch your step.
0:14:19 > 0:14:23There was a part of it that was practically,
0:14:23 > 0:14:28either third ranked to be the most deprivated part in Britain.
0:14:28 > 0:14:31Another family were moved into this basement when the house they had
0:14:31 > 0:14:33been occupying fell down.
0:14:33 > 0:14:37And there was lots of not very nuce landlords, Rachman in particular.
0:14:37 > 0:14:39And there was lots of not very nice landlords,
0:14:39 > 0:14:40Rachman in particular.
0:14:40 > 0:14:43The legacy of the notorious landlord Peter Rachmann was still very much
0:14:43 > 0:14:45being felt in '66.
0:14:45 > 0:14:50He operated in rundown areas of London, where he would buy up
0:14:50 > 0:14:52houses and intimidate sitting tenants by filling the properties
0:14:52 > 0:14:55with recently arrived West Indian immigrants, who were
0:14:55 > 0:14:56desperate for accommodation.
0:14:56 > 0:14:59There was a lot of resentment against people from the West
0:14:59 > 0:15:01Indies, which was wrong.
0:15:01 > 0:15:04Soon there'll be so many people here there won't be enough houses
0:15:04 > 0:15:05and jobs to go round.
0:15:05 > 0:15:07Why not keep Britain, Britain?
0:15:07 > 0:15:09Keep it white, as it should be.
0:15:09 > 0:15:13The prejudice usually came, I mean, other than, "No Irish,
0:15:13 > 0:15:16"no dogs and no blacks", you know, that was on just
0:15:16 > 0:15:18about all the signs.
0:15:18 > 0:15:21Coloured people also run into difficulties because people
0:15:21 > 0:15:23don't want them living next door.
0:15:23 > 0:15:25I've come about the room which you advertised.
0:15:25 > 0:15:27Ah, yes, it's let already, sorry.
0:15:27 > 0:15:28Let.
0:15:28 > 0:15:31How long ago was that let?
0:15:31 > 0:15:33About two hours.
0:15:33 > 0:15:36OK.
0:15:36 > 0:15:41Let's call that the boiling pot, all spring, trying to establish
0:15:41 > 0:15:44to establish ourselves against a wall of rejection.
0:15:44 > 0:15:48There's a cafe round the corner here, you see, and I was eating
0:15:48 > 0:15:51in there and three of them walked in and I'd just ordered
0:15:51 > 0:15:54some chicken, you know, a whole chicken, roast chicken,
0:15:54 > 0:15:55you know what I mean?
0:15:55 > 0:15:58And he says, "Whatever you do to that chicken,
0:15:58 > 0:16:01we're gonna do to you."
0:16:01 > 0:16:05So I slowly picked up the chicken and kissed its butt.
0:16:05 > 0:16:14HE LAUGHS.
0:16:14 > 0:16:17They left me alone!
0:16:17 > 0:16:19As far as the coloured man is concerned, if he complies
0:16:19 > 0:16:24with the law, then he is going to be no more vulnerable than any other
0:16:24 > 0:16:28member of the community.
0:16:28 > 0:16:31But to Alex, it was the law that you needed to guard
0:16:31 > 0:16:35against on a regular basis.
0:16:35 > 0:16:38I got to the top of Wardour Street and a plainclothes
0:16:38 > 0:16:44car moved past, back.
0:16:44 > 0:16:47Bam, bam, doors open.
0:16:47 > 0:16:50And may I tell you the sentence as they told me?
0:16:50 > 0:16:53"What the BLEEP not or like you doing on the road here,
0:16:53 > 0:16:58"this time of the night?"
0:16:58 > 0:16:59Bang, on to the wall.
0:16:59 > 0:17:09The younger policeman against the war.
0:17:11 > 0:17:13-- The younger policeman pinned me against the wall.
0:17:13 > 0:17:16Those periods, you had to learn, once the police came after you,
0:17:16 > 0:17:18you locked your hands because they would say
0:17:18 > 0:17:19that you hit them.
0:17:19 > 0:17:22At that period, people used to talk about "bobbies" and the police.
0:17:22 > 0:17:23Come on.
0:17:23 > 0:17:24The police were not angels.
0:17:24 > 0:17:26I'm not going to can every police the same,
0:17:26 > 0:17:29but we have some bad eggs in the police force.
0:17:29 > 0:17:32Bob Dixon, a bobby on the beat in the mid-60s before joining
0:17:32 > 0:17:34the CID, saw things from a different perspective in the East End.
0:17:34 > 0:17:36As regards any racial problems in the police,
0:17:36 > 0:17:43I didn't really, across anything that would be classed
0:17:43 > 0:17:46-- I didn't really come across anything that would be
0:17:46 > 0:17:47classed as racial prejudice.
0:17:47 > 0:17:49Comments were sometimes made about, say, black people
0:17:49 > 0:17:50coming over or whatever.
0:17:50 > 0:17:51I didn't come across that, greatly.
0:17:51 > 0:17:54And in '66, the police themselves were facing a violent new reality.
0:17:54 > 0:17:56Three plainclothes officers were murdered by the criminal
0:17:56 > 0:18:00Harry Roberts and his gang.
0:18:00 > 0:18:03The fat man, they shot him through the head.
0:18:03 > 0:18:06Then he's shot through the window at this man.
0:18:06 > 0:18:08That was the third man in the police car?
0:18:08 > 0:18:08Yes.
0:18:08 > 0:18:11Yes.
0:18:11 > 0:18:14It came on the radio that officers had been shot in west London.
0:18:14 > 0:18:18While two of Harry Roberts accomplices were caught,
0:18:18 > 0:18:20he managed to escape and went on the run.
0:18:20 > 0:18:23I'll never forget the posters that went up to get him.
0:18:23 > 0:18:25My friend George Hunt, I got a phone call.
0:18:25 > 0:18:28"My dad's been nicked!
0:18:28 > 0:18:30"The police have got him down in Carter Street police station."
0:18:30 > 0:18:32I said, "What's going on?"
0:18:32 > 0:18:35He said, "They think he's Harry Roberts."
0:18:35 > 0:18:37We were all absolutely shocked.
0:18:37 > 0:18:40It wasn't common in those days for guns to be used,
0:18:40 > 0:18:48particularly with regards to policeman.
0:18:48 > 0:18:52Eventually caught, Roberts served 48 years in prison for the crime.
0:18:52 > 0:18:55Elsewhere across London, criminal gangs had built up
0:18:55 > 0:18:58clearly defined territories.
0:18:58 > 0:19:00Every street had its little gang.
0:19:00 > 0:19:04The East was like the Kray manor.
0:19:04 > 0:19:07And then you had south London, you had the Richardsons as well.
0:19:07 > 0:19:11There were gangs in the West End.
0:19:11 > 0:19:14Well-known gangs, controlled the area.
0:19:14 > 0:19:16But for ordinary Londoners living in the gangsters' manor,
0:19:16 > 0:19:19life was deceptively respectable.
0:19:19 > 0:19:24You never saw a public explosion, every one bashing each other.
0:19:24 > 0:19:28Especially if you had a new suit on, you don't want to have a fight.
0:19:28 > 0:19:31You don't to have a tear up with a suit that you just paid
0:19:31 > 0:19:3230 quid for.
0:19:32 > 0:19:35Local people, they could not have been safer with those types around.
0:19:35 > 0:19:37I never heard of them causing trouble for normal people.
0:19:37 > 0:19:40Some key criminals went out of their way to be seen doing
0:19:40 > 0:19:41something for their communities.
0:19:41 > 0:19:44The Krays had a great reputation with the locals and at Christmas
0:19:44 > 0:19:47they used to put on parties for the old-age pensioners
0:19:47 > 0:19:48and that sort of thing.
0:19:48 > 0:19:53# You think we look pretty good together #.
0:19:53 > 0:19:55They will always be, to some Eastenders,
0:19:55 > 0:19:58a legend, if you like.
0:19:58 > 0:20:01They really were the Robin Hoods of their time.
0:20:01 > 0:20:06OK, with a naughty side.
0:20:06 > 0:20:10The Krays could be gentlemen, but they could also be the Krays.
0:20:10 > 0:20:12I like being known as the Godmother.
0:20:12 > 0:20:15It gives me a sort of carte blanche to not put up with any
0:20:15 > 0:20:17rubbish from anybody.
0:20:17 > 0:20:20I was the first of the 60s Miss Great Britains,
0:20:20 > 0:20:23which is quite a nice title to get and also that's when I first met
0:20:23 > 0:20:27the Krays which was the beginning of a new part of my life.
0:20:27 > 0:20:29This is a Christmas card from Reg Kray.
0:20:29 > 0:20:31That is Reggie's writing.
0:20:31 > 0:20:35It is a wonder the postman ever found it.
0:20:35 > 0:20:38Friend, God bless.
0:20:38 > 0:20:40As a woman, there is something exciting about a beautifully
0:20:40 > 0:20:44turned-out gangster, in a suit.
0:20:44 > 0:20:47What's more exciting than that?
0:20:47 > 0:20:50But their celebrity status was being funded by thuggery
0:20:50 > 0:20:55and their crimes were gaining new levels of attention.
0:20:55 > 0:20:57I seen Reggie and Ronnie beat the man to a pulp,
0:20:57 > 0:20:59till he couldn't stand up.
0:20:59 > 0:21:01I think they are inclined to be sort of...
0:21:01 > 0:21:04Well, animals, really.
0:21:04 > 0:21:08It was definitely on the streets, everybody going, "What's going on?"
0:21:08 > 0:21:11And it all culminated in this pub when, on March 9th 1966,
0:21:11 > 0:21:13Ronnie Kray shot dead rival gang member George Cornell.
0:21:13 > 0:21:19The myth itself did not start till the year 1966, really,
0:21:19 > 0:21:21when things started to happen.
0:21:21 > 0:21:24You know, when George Cornell got killed by Ronnie Kray and then
0:21:24 > 0:21:26the Richardsons got brought into it.
0:21:26 > 0:21:29Cornell had worked for the South London gang
0:21:29 > 0:21:32the Richardsons and Ronnie had apparently been provoked
0:21:32 > 0:21:35by a comment about his sexuality.
0:21:35 > 0:21:39There is no way you would even laugh at him or even call him a fat
0:21:39 > 0:21:42poof, which supposedly is what George Cornell did
0:21:42 > 0:21:46and lost his life because of it.
0:21:46 > 0:21:49In fact, I have a personal connection to this era.
0:21:49 > 0:21:53My father worked for both the Richardsons and the twins.
0:21:53 > 0:21:55Reggie Kray was in fact my brother's godfather.
0:21:55 > 0:21:58As a professional criminal, my father was fairly unique
0:21:58 > 0:22:01in associating with both gangs.
0:22:01 > 0:22:05He knew that they operated through fear.
0:22:05 > 0:22:07So while the Krays promoted themselves as latter-day
0:22:07 > 0:22:12Robin Hoods, their world was about violence and power.
0:22:12 > 0:22:15The Krays lives might have been very different.
0:22:15 > 0:22:17As teenagers, they pursued a boxing career at this
0:22:17 > 0:22:25club in Bethnal Green, where my dad also used to box.
0:22:25 > 0:22:26I'm the chairman.
0:22:26 > 0:22:28I'm an immigrant from Soho.
0:22:28 > 0:22:30You had to look after yourself proper.
0:22:30 > 0:22:31You really had to.
0:22:31 > 0:22:33So you had to learn how to fight.
0:22:33 > 0:22:36I was the head of the family and I had to protect my brothers,
0:22:36 > 0:22:38that's how it was, you know.
0:22:38 > 0:22:41You go home with your teeth hanging out, you ears hanging out, the lot,
0:22:41 > 0:22:42and that's how it was.
0:22:42 > 0:22:47The Krays were young lads.
0:22:47 > 0:22:49They boxed in the original Repton Boys Club.
0:22:49 > 0:22:50This was their club.
0:22:50 > 0:22:51They came from this club.
0:22:51 > 0:22:52This was their era.
0:22:52 > 0:22:54They turned professional quite young, but I suppose
0:22:54 > 0:22:57more than anything else, their dedication was out the window
0:22:57 > 0:22:59because they started drinking, as I understand it, quite young and,
0:22:59 > 0:23:02from then on, they just become gangsters and I think their
0:23:02 > 0:23:05interests with boxing went out.
0:23:05 > 0:23:07Ronnie, definitely, from what I can understand, had that mad brain.
0:23:07 > 0:23:10He was a crackpot.
0:23:10 > 0:23:13I think he always had that mad brain, so people come
0:23:13 > 0:23:17from the street creed, if they're winning the fight,
0:23:17 > 0:23:19they want to continue winning the fight and they don't want
0:23:19 > 0:23:22a referee saying stop, they want to keep bashing them.
0:23:22 > 0:23:27The shootings in '66 marked a crescendo in their criminal
0:23:27 > 0:23:29activity and, ultimately, by the end of the decade,
0:23:29 > 0:23:31the law caught up with them.
0:23:31 > 0:23:34Every day, you could hear the sirens going.
0:23:34 > 0:23:39There would be about six motorbikes, two or three cars, and two big vans
0:23:39 > 0:23:42and it was the Kray twins on their way to court
0:23:42 > 0:23:43and the whole sight.
0:23:43 > 0:23:44"Yes!"
0:23:44 > 0:23:46"The Krays!"
0:23:46 > 0:23:49And then in the evening, when the trial day was over,
0:23:49 > 0:23:51they'd come back and everybody would be out there again,
0:23:51 > 0:23:55in the street, cheering them on.
0:23:55 > 0:23:57I'm absolutely convinced that the Krays and Richardsons went
0:23:57 > 0:24:00on for as long as they did because of the fact that there
0:24:00 > 0:24:03were corrupt policeman.
0:24:03 > 0:24:07I'm pretty sure about that.
0:24:07 > 0:24:11While the Krays' archrivals the Richardsons were being arrested,
0:24:11 > 0:24:15on July 30th, 1966 three East End lads were getting ready to make
0:24:15 > 0:24:20headlines for all the right reasons.
0:24:20 > 0:24:22Whether you hated football or liked football or not,
0:24:22 > 0:24:24there was a kind of pride.
0:24:24 > 0:24:26Nowadays, it's blown out of all proportion.
0:24:26 > 0:24:32Then it was, "We've won the World Cup."
0:24:32 > 0:24:36To beat the Germans, that was just absolute quality.
0:24:36 > 0:24:39The summer of celebration reached its pinnacle
0:24:39 > 0:24:43with the World Cup and Wembley was set to reach its capacity
0:24:43 > 0:24:47of over 96,000.
0:24:47 > 0:24:51Tickets were understandably like gold dust.
0:24:51 > 0:24:54Mr Davies, it's been said that touts like you are going to make
0:24:54 > 0:24:57an enormous killing on this World Cup final, is that true?
0:24:57 > 0:24:59On the actual final itself, yes, that's right.
0:24:59 > 0:25:02What you think of people who buy tickets from you at these prices,
0:25:02 > 0:25:04do you think they are mugs?
0:25:04 > 0:25:06Well, they're mugs to the extent that when they were first
0:25:06 > 0:25:08advertised, if they were that keen to go, they should
0:25:08 > 0:25:09have applied then.
0:25:09 > 0:25:11It's all a question of supply and demand.
0:25:11 > 0:25:13We couldn't afford to go games, that's for sure.
0:25:13 > 0:25:14Couldn't get tickets, anyway.
0:25:14 > 0:25:17So we were all watching it on televisions at home.
0:25:17 > 0:25:21The World Cup totally passed me by because we didn't have TV.
0:25:21 > 0:25:24I don't remember it at all.
0:25:24 > 0:25:27We were all at my mum's place and there was about 18 people
0:25:27 > 0:25:30in the room looking at the television and by that time,
0:25:30 > 0:25:33Jean was pregnant and she was due to have my daughter
0:25:33 > 0:25:37on the day of the final.
0:25:37 > 0:25:40She was sitting there and every time we scored, we'd be looking
0:25:40 > 0:25:41at Jean.
0:25:41 > 0:25:43Hurst.
0:25:43 > 0:25:47CHEERING.
0:25:47 > 0:25:49Towards the end of the game, of course, we're all cheering,
0:25:49 > 0:25:52and we're all praying that her water wouldn't break!
0:25:52 > 0:25:53It's there!
0:25:53 > 0:25:54Peters has scored.
0:25:54 > 0:25:58And when Germany equalised, it's getting worse and worse.
0:25:58 > 0:26:00Seconds before the final whistle, agony for England.
0:26:00 > 0:26:02And then we scored another one which was disallowed
0:26:02 > 0:26:04and then allowed.
0:26:04 > 0:26:07No, it bounced out!
0:26:07 > 0:26:13The referee consulted the linesman and goal it was.
0:26:13 > 0:26:16Racing to beat the whistle, Geoff Hurst achieved the hat-trick.
0:26:16 > 0:26:20It was England that the whole world of sport was now cheering.
0:26:20 > 0:26:22She didn't have the baby until about a week later,
0:26:22 > 0:26:27so we were all right there.
0:26:27 > 0:26:29I felt proud for the country.
0:26:29 > 0:26:31After all, they did invent it.
0:26:31 > 0:26:34If America had invented football and they had never won the World
0:26:34 > 0:26:37Cup, they'd change the rules!
0:26:37 > 0:26:42"The goalposts are too small, man.
0:26:42 > 0:26:43"Make them much bigger."
0:26:43 > 0:26:49HE LAUGHS.
0:26:49 > 0:26:53When we won the World Cup, we shot off to Epsom Downs and had
0:26:53 > 0:26:57a football, an old-fashioned leather sort of football and we put a jacket
0:26:57 > 0:27:00here and a jacket there and I was the goalie.
0:27:00 > 0:27:03I was just a woman who'd never played football before.
0:27:03 > 0:27:07It was so crazy, we were so full of the fact we'd won the World Cup.
0:27:07 > 0:27:13On the night of the final, fans took over Trafalgar Square.
0:27:13 > 0:27:17But the very next day, life was getting back to normal.
0:27:17 > 0:27:21I can remember reading the next day that Bobby Moore went out to a pub
0:27:21 > 0:27:22with a couple of his mates.
0:27:22 > 0:27:24Nowadays, he would be straight on the television,
0:27:24 > 0:27:26there would be awards.
0:27:26 > 0:27:28Ridiculous, isn't it?
0:27:28 > 0:27:31As we've seen, 1966 was a time of stark contrasts, new music,
0:27:31 > 0:27:35exciting fashion and the elation of victory, up against social
0:27:35 > 0:27:41conflict, deprivation and violence.
0:27:41 > 0:27:45There's a lot to celebrate from that year and much to consign
0:27:45 > 0:27:47to the history books, but I do feel the myths and cliches
0:27:47 > 0:27:53of swinging '66 really are based in reality.
0:27:53 > 0:27:56They do say that if you remember the '60s, you weren't there.
0:27:56 > 0:27:57But I was there.
0:27:57 > 0:28:00It was all the right places at the right time,
0:28:00 > 0:28:03so it was just like a way of life.
0:28:03 > 0:28:06It was a very small section of London.
0:28:06 > 0:28:11By the 1960s, the difference of people instead of being
0:28:11 > 0:28:15excoriated was being appreciated.
0:28:15 > 0:28:17It wasn't something that I was particularly aware
0:28:17 > 0:28:19of, living in Fulham.
0:28:19 > 0:28:24Before the '60s, if you was to suggest that great music came out
0:28:24 > 0:28:27of London that affected the world, they wouldn't believe you.
0:28:27 > 0:28:32From '67, it began to fall apart and the realisation that it wasn't
0:28:32 > 0:28:33all fantastic out there.
0:28:33 > 0:28:35You know.
0:28:35 > 0:28:37But '66 was good!
0:28:37 > 0:28:41HE LAUGHS.
0:28:41 > 0:28:52# Baby, baby, you're out of time #.
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0:29:13 > 0:29:16The IRA were believed responsible, now new inquests will
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