Freddie was a real one, of all the old timers who tell a story, he's one of the few who was more than he says he was, no glamour, no embellishing just the truth as he saw it.

@JackVR123

8 ай бұрын

definetly ,balls of steel

My assessment is that Freddie had a lot more of the old grey matter , than your average villain.

@michaelharrison3602

Ай бұрын

And more decency than most MPs

Very insightful , great documentary very well done.

Reminds me of my mother's stories during the blitz.. my father and mother survived this war.. my father in Europe my mother in London got married the 1945

Excellent - thanks!

Great video, thank you

Brilliant video.

Very enjoyable, thanks

Brilliant!!

@ashleelarsen7765

Жыл бұрын

I find these so fascinating...

Great documentary 👏

Omg take a breather!!!! I've never seen anyone talk like this

@MrAlancarew

Жыл бұрын

Excitement, or maybe a breathing condition?

@danielcrawley3164

Жыл бұрын

He used to come across differently, age has taken its toll. I'm honoured to have been in his company on numerous occasions however, true gentleman.

@allancerf9038

3 ай бұрын

He doesn't talk too much or fast...you just listen too slowly.

@dan-fo8qr

Ай бұрын

​@@allancerf9038Derek brannings dad !!

Brilliant bit of London history, great to see the loyalty to his crew when their arch nemesis was mentioned. 'That old wanker!' lmao

@MrAlancarew

Жыл бұрын

Loyalty until he wanted to 'iron them out' of course

@dan-fo8qr

Ай бұрын

@@MrAlancarew Derek branings dad

"streams of consciousness",love...Could listen for a week,because I lived it.

One of the best docs yet , this former gangster is actually likeable

@TheSqeela

Жыл бұрын

Yeah - the vid should be called 'The Actually Likeable British Godfather'. ...... but not much click bait value in that....

@theblackstridersofficial2562

Жыл бұрын

Freddie always had that look !! Always had a look of menace about him !!

@Ickie71

Жыл бұрын

@@TheSqeela Haha

@Ickie71

Жыл бұрын

@@TheSqeela Fk clickbait its just a silly term.The British Godfather would of sufficed.

@MikeGreenwood51

Жыл бұрын

@@Ickie71 With the devil god being the god of the title Godfather.

Can't help but like Freddie Foreman

@michaelharrison3602

2 ай бұрын

I've always known who Fed was lived close to him throughout the sixties I never heard a bad word about him. He was respected by everyone straight or crooked

Great documentary

He doesnt interrupt Fred, he lets him speak he knows freddie was a proper criminal... to do the security express robbery in his late 40s as well what a lad

Wow the council estates I grew up with my four brothers back in the 90s. Used to pass here on the way to school. Such history

Respect mate 👍 👏 👌

He's the verbal equivalent of writing without punctuaction.

@chasingclouds7101

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@sampocock2765

Жыл бұрын

Brilliant comment hes quite the man i like eating candy and my dogs

@sonogabri1

Жыл бұрын

Seriously?

@kevinb9830

Жыл бұрын

it's funny becasue when he was interviewed as a younger man he wasn't quite so scatter-gun and waffly. He always came across very well. We all get old in the end lol.

@faveri74

Жыл бұрын

Eu não sei mais o que pensar de psicopatas. Manipulação natural é o que penso da minha ignorância.

GREAT INSIGHT GREAT GUY REAL OLD SCHOOL

Brown Bread Fred. The Man who notorious gangsters turned to for help !!

Dis is a great documentary listen 2 Freddie tellen his side and the Richardson's DERS very interesting love it great

His son Jamie was in EastEnders as Derek Branning

@bigbernie7260

Жыл бұрын

He should of been in Hammer House of Horrors the boat on him.

@rishiout5233

Жыл бұрын

Lives in Chigwell see him alot

@MrAlancarew

Жыл бұрын

That's why he plays those roles so well i guess

@pj9051

Ай бұрын

He's been in lots more , Layer Cake was one

@Bombheadwire

3 күн бұрын

No way i never realised that was his son

Why do people give the krays so much credit ? Foreman was their 'Go to Man' when they needed heavy work done ? Is there a film about him ? If not there should be !

You can't dispose of a body in an aluminium smelter, unless you want an explosion. Water turns to steam almost instantaneously, and the resulting explosion throws molten aluminium everywhere. It should be easy to find videos of this happening - it's horrendous...and fast.

Lovely! Philadelphia USA

Freddy’s scary no doubt I wldnt want to be on the wrong side in his day !

Bernard was nothing more than a doorman employed by Tony Tucker just as important as the other 20-30 doorman that Tony employed but somehow he's made out that he lucky he wasn't in the range rover that night? Bernard was as important to the Essex boys as the man that cleaned the toilet.

@labrador-fx3fb

10 ай бұрын

can confirm: I am Tony Tucker's cat. I'm lucky I wasn't in that Range Rover, that night.

@paulpaul6445

10 ай бұрын

@@labrador-fx3fb yep he's made his own little story out of this for the simple reason to make money and nobody wants to listen to a foot soldier they want to hear it from one of the general's so that's what he done and it's working for him so it is what it is but the people who was around that time know the truth about him and his part he played and his part was just a doorman nothing more. So you was 1 of his cats and what was your role? I never met Tony and only met pat in prison but know people that new the them all.

@shaunarmstrong1125

9 ай бұрын

Maybe maybe not...but il ask u this ..be honest....someone says too yiu...listen u.knew tucker and co right?u have a few snaps took with them?your word against the rest..AND THE MAIN 4 ARE SILENT..what ya say bernie m8?ching ching????

@ryanbakke1283

8 ай бұрын

@@shaunarmstrong1125 What?

@robertandrews5640

7 ай бұрын

WELL DONE OLD SON

Freddie Foreman was and still is the best of the lot....

@robertandrews5640

6 ай бұрын

SOUNDS ABOUT RIGHT YOU CAN TELL WHEN REALITY IS BEING SPOKEN

@MichaelParkinson-wz1nh

Ай бұрын

Freddie is the real Don of Great Britain respected the length and breadth of these shores and beyond 👀🥊.

I'm out of breath looking at this man talk 😮‍💨

In my eyes Freddie Foreman was king of the old school gangsters. Love hearing the old stories I've ever heard. Good stuff. Life was different back then, no cameras everywhere and proper gentlemen too.

@MikeGreenwood51

Жыл бұрын

Yes. A gentle man is always the sort of villienous thug who'd resort to shooting a man in the head rather than use straight talk and tell him to his face 'To beat it, that he is no longer wanted'.

@wayne3093

11 ай бұрын

@@MikeGreenwood51 Clearly you need to learn quite a lot if think a Michael Jackson song would work on a real gangster.

@williamsalin3509

9 ай бұрын

I could listen to Freddy all day!

Kin el its like watching something on TV with all the ads.

The real boss. When will we get the film about this guy. Could be a 2parter. The 60z and then the robbery and Spain in the second

The disarming thing about him is he is very polite and reasonably quitely spoken.but he didn't need to shout ,his nickname was brown bread Fred in rhyming slang.

Old School British Gangster no Civilians no Kids no Women, I came from the same background in Glasgow in the Sixties and seventies and then they looked after there own areas, just saying from Glasgow 😎 🇬🇧

You can't help but love this guy.. A proper english gent, a geezer.

@senecaknowledge2274

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Dave, much appreciated mate

@Geezuse

Жыл бұрын

@@senecaknowledge2274 is that you?

@michelleduplooymalherbe2837

Жыл бұрын

WE WERE TALKING ABOUT IT AND HAVE YOU NOTICED, THE OLDER GANGSTERS FROM SAY THE 50'S,60'S AND EVEN 70'S WERE SORT OF GENTLEMEN CROOKS IT SEEMS AS IF LATER ON IT JUST BECAME MORE TACKY

@TheSqeela

Жыл бұрын

Always asked after your mum before he had you gutted....

This was eye-opening, but there were too many ads

@scotishjohn

Жыл бұрын

You must noy have addblock a free download

@redroostermcmlxxl

Жыл бұрын

@scotishjohn Adblock's good for a computer but it doesn't work on a telly

@mattgosling2657

2 ай бұрын

Way too many.

Only Freddie can say "unfortunate" with such meaning.

Gr8. ty

I remember all the coffee stalls Fred mentions especially DAannys a tthe elephant. Clapham Common ,Chelsea Bridge and the one under the railway bridge on Waterloo Road

Proper geezer went through hard times growing up Not like the knife in the back culture of today

Good to see he’s made a fortune in his grilling machine 👏

@intuitiveeevee

Жыл бұрын

Lol

Dialect is a Weird One. Grew up and Worked in London. South and East London have never ever wasted Breath or Time, Get it said job DONE. Bless Him and His Morales xx

He sure is the Godfather of crime and the ppl he knew was unbelievable a to Z of names . He did things that noone else would do and more seen this 1 before still good look him up and other gangsters as they say

Oh I see you got The Punch Bowl in at the end. I used to live next door @ 51 South Street,

He doesn’t look his brother George Foreman

Lovely bloke true legend proper man!%

@frances4007

Жыл бұрын

Proper killer 😂

@grbbbc

Жыл бұрын

If killers are your thing, fair enough.

@frances4007

Жыл бұрын

@@grbbbc I was being facetious 😂😂🙄

@grbbbc

Жыл бұрын

@@frances4007 sorry I was speaking to the clown Jamie Oliver above.

@jamieoliver3262

Жыл бұрын

@@grbbbc u naive little man !!!

Any gangster is probably a horrible human being and it's strange how people look up to or say how decent these people are.

@oxycuntin2059

Жыл бұрын

Poverty is a magnet to a moral compass

@wordsound420

Жыл бұрын

@@oxycuntin2059 poverty isn't an excuse to be a terrible human.

@marksmith7425

Жыл бұрын

Spot on word sound .Its disgusting so many on here are lauding this guy .He tortured and murdered countless people and to condone that is totally sick.

@thomasreed49

Жыл бұрын

They were horrible wicked people he should’ve been on the end of a rope.

@marquettegloves9907

Жыл бұрын

​@@marksmith7425 Freddie Foreman never tortured anybody for a start. And the "countless" people he killed were Ginger Marks and Frank Mitchell. That's 2 people. Marks was killed for shooting Foreman's brother with a shotgun, and Mitchell was killed for threatening to kill the Krays, who were Fred's partners. I don't think anybody other than teenage boys look up to these guys, but the rest of us are interested in the stories and history of it. World War 2 was a terrible thing, yet people are fascinated by it, from the weapons used to the battles won. But I don't think many people are lauding Hitler. This is no different.

absolutley love freddie foreman he is a great history across the history of the most interesting times..reminds me of my familys history

@tonycaribbian

Жыл бұрын

But he killed people

@Cookingwithchicken

Жыл бұрын

The pickerings?

@bobroberts7029

Жыл бұрын

@@Cookingwithchicken who?

@thedude2916

Жыл бұрын

@@bobroberts7029 RONNIE PICKERING.

@bobroberts7029

Жыл бұрын

@@thedude2916 who 😅

a REAL gentleman one ocf the few

I could listen to Freddie forman all day long, Respect to him

Near the end when he was talking about the police giving him a knock out drug in his drink, i wonder what it was they used, probably an antipsychotic medicine like Chlorpromazine or Haloperidol cos they'd do that.

I've met Charlie and Eddie, uncle frankie. They used to drop me a few Bob down the shrimp and winkle stall at the oval. I was only 5. I have watched Freddie, read books I would love to meet him. Take care Fred. Tom.

19 years inside and broke, who says crime doesn’t pay.

@rossturrell6758

Жыл бұрын

That's rough bro at least u free and still wiv us,,,all the best

@amberservold2187

Жыл бұрын

I think you just did!

@justinparkerthewildwolf6394

Жыл бұрын

I'm sure he enjoyed millions

@shanetobin5958

Жыл бұрын

The respect he has , is priceless 👌

@nedread6700

Жыл бұрын

Crime doesn’t pay but the hours are good

Viv Graham was the big. Gangster from the northeast , they should make a movie about him

@stephenreeds3632

Ай бұрын

Don't tell me, he was the one who got rid of the Krays when they came up to the North East.

freddie out of all the gangster story tellers you know its all nailed on facts

And that was the sermon according to St Freddy.

i love freddie a true gent

Freddie was the biz no doubt about it he filled Frank Mitchell full of lead.Brown bread Fred as he was known.

FOREMAN HAS ONLY ONE HOPE !! TOO COME TO JESUS AND SEEK SALVATION FOR HIS CORRUPT SOUL..SEE THE NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE BELOW. !!

Funny how in the intro to this video/interview Bernard who has since said he wasn't part of the 'Essex Boys' and was a "once friend of the Krays"... Loved it when Fred said if they didnt get nicked, they were going to be ironed out because they were bringing too much heat to the others and causing problems 😂

A Principalled Man, NEVER off Your Own, Only Insurance companies. If you have a University Education and you use the system your hailed a fuckin Hero , A Proper Man with a Heart and Morals Bless Him X Mark

@henrysmith883

Жыл бұрын

Doesnt have much of a heart. Put five bullets into Mitchell’s nut in the back of a van , for money from the twins. Hardly the kindest man on the planet.

@followtheboat

Жыл бұрын

@dogs aren't dangerous I was about to say the same thing

@wayne3093

11 ай бұрын

@dogs aren't dangerous Lets see where your morals are. An innocent child abuse victim is locked in solitary confinement with a media ban being tortured by child rapist politicians who you vote for. Tereasa May had Melanie Shaw locked in solitary confinement with a media ban 4 years ago. Melanie has had 2 fingers cut off by slamming her hand in a cell door and was force fed psychotic drugs to make her unfit for trial. Treasa Mays dad was in charge of the diocese of the south coast of England. He was also in charge of the biggest child rapist ring in the history of the English church and his priests were charged with thousands of crimes against children. Hubert Brasier was May's dads name, he committed suicide by crossing a dual carriageway in his Marina and smashing head on into a range rover coming the other way. The politicians that English people are voting for have been raping and murdering children in government run care homes since the 1960's. Melanie Shaw is being tortured in prison right now and just because May put a media ban you cannot convince me that's why people are too scared to talk about this. This country and English people are the biggest disgrace ever right now and have no morals or empathy or compassion or courage. Even if you say this is the first time you have heard of these facts my bet is you won't even respond let alone speak up for Melanie Shaw and the children of England. Everyone was crying for Steve Bray when he had his megaphone taken off him and he had over 40k likes on twitter, i posted about Melanie Shaw being locked up in solitary confinement for taking to the streets with a megaphone exposing the child rapists and child murderers running England right now on the same post, you can guess not one single like for Melanie. That's the truth about England right now.

@stephenreeds3632

Ай бұрын

Principled? Morals? You have to be joking. He was a thief and a murderer paint it any way you like.

There's no tales of young boys with this one..🚬😎

@williamhenry4986

Жыл бұрын

Nope just tales 😂

Here's what I wanna know, you know mad Frankie Frasier, well he was on the Richardson side, yet was good friends with the krays, so I wonder how that affected their relationship? Surely there would be a degree of conflict or difficulty

@michaelharrison3602

Ай бұрын

The Krays and the Richardsons were never at war this was made up by the press so there was no conflict of interest. The rivalry was exaggerated after they were all in prison 😂

Hardly terrifying

Real gangsters you never hear about.

@Adam-ui3ot

Жыл бұрын

You never hear about real gangsters?

full respect lust love this fella proper old school not a bully at all just a straight up gezza

32:12 "Oh, I'm on TV" : )

Brown Bread aint jokin No lie in him. The truth is real - London

brennie olspud pick n me have had back n forth as freddy kruger i recall

Would be graet to see jamie forman play his dads life story in film. also thing about these guys then No roids

Interesting

I didn't understand half of what the first oh boy said but what I did was pretty interesting..

He was posh having inside bog and bathroom in the 40's, took til 60's round me mams way.

@michaelharrison3602

Ай бұрын

I never had running hot water or an inside toilet until 1963😅

Charlie Kray had a serious male patterned Mr Whippy hairstyle when he got older, the worst part of his wrap around hairstyle was the mullet part that trailed off to the back down his neck. A syrup would of attracted less laughter behind his back.

A well represented documentary.after war people looked after their own.

@dejanrakic77

Жыл бұрын

yes, really nice lads

@michaelbradbury715

Жыл бұрын

@@dejanrakic77 people do whater is needed at the time.picked up on your vibe but lost relating thread

@Crosshatch1212

11 ай бұрын

You bet .They where lot better times I’ve noticed comments on here saying .I dnt understand why people look up to these people I’ll tell you .we knew where we stood with them ,The streets where safe if you wherent in the game .unlike today where it’s just pure rogue hooligans thinking they are gangsters .And then you have the biggest crims in the biggest position that these people vote for .Totally clueless to the way the world works or human behavour .

I've no doubt whatsoever that most notorious villains are perfectly nice to 99% of the people they encounter.

My dad used to be a regular at the Two eyes when he was a young Teddy boy.

Bernard probably fought as a para on D Day.

@michaelharrison3602

Ай бұрын

He was also the only survivor of custers last stand 😅

No body no crime has never existed. Body of Evidence is a legal term for facts, usually indisputable that make up the indictment.

The man the other so called gangsters were nothing compared to foreman. The real deal

@chucky2316

Жыл бұрын

Mitchell would have ripped him limb from limb

DROP DEAD FRED. In his days the Absolute Guvna. 💯

Freddie comes across as an amiable old geezer but the persistent rumours of disappearing bodies suggest that he is London's answer to Roy DeMeo.

@mickplanter4593

Жыл бұрын

Nah DeMeo was a Pure Evil, they all was From the Gemini

@Stephen-gp8yi

Жыл бұрын

Just started reading murder machine with Roy demeo and the Gemini crew.also the sins of my father.

@chucky2316

Жыл бұрын

He killed an innocent man with learning disabilities frank mitchell

@shilohbrutalis582

9 ай бұрын

He was on a Roy Demeo level? Really?

As a northerner, I have to say that there is still a great distinction between the northern and southern English. That is despite huge amounts of immigration nationwide.

@MikeGreenwood51

Жыл бұрын

I suppose it is like Blackpool Rock and Brighton Rock. Both sweet but inside the words are different.

Legend.

"They should have been ironed out"

Thought he had passed but he's still alive. 😉

@henrysmith883

Жыл бұрын

Why did you think he’d passed lol?

@kieran8845

Жыл бұрын

​@@henrysmith883because he's ancient ? I had to Google it also.

@daniellemorrison9788

Жыл бұрын

He's now living in a care home aged 91

@Crosshatch1212

11 ай бұрын

@@daniellemorrison9788no he passed a yr ago .

@pauljones8218

10 ай бұрын

@@Crosshatch1212 last seen down the old kent road trying to cross it but still waffleing a good story

Walter who? I'm from Glasgow and born in 1970 and I've never heard his name until now

@Crosshatch1212

11 ай бұрын

Yep the real Glasgow godfather ,some keep there head low .others ponderosa keep it high but talk to the police .

BOM was not a member of the Essex boys lol he was lower down the pecking order than rolf he was just a bouncer

@ronm9101

Жыл бұрын

Spot on And he disrespected the twins on a TV show badmouthing them

@heresjohnny1219

Жыл бұрын

Not forgetting in 2 separate tv interviews 1st one not long after the murders giving it all “my friends this and good bloke Tucker was” blah blah and then the 2nd I think was the Danny Dyer show where he’s like “they were nothing but bullies couldn’t stand them , got what they deserved”. More faces than Big Ben 🕰️

@jamesoneill2933

Жыл бұрын

​@@heresjohnny1219 Still alive though.

@MikeGreenwood51

Жыл бұрын

@@ronm9101 Most gansters do not show a lot of respect for peodophiles or nonces. Even in prisons the molesters get segregated wards or cells. So I guess you stand with only a few if you support their molestering rapeophilia buggery crimes. And what do you say about the young male victims? They shouldn't have had chocolate bums?

@ronm9101

Жыл бұрын

@@MikeGreenwood51 you have lost me Don't know what you are on about

Freddie Foreman was Bob the Builder's boss.

Lot of respect for brown bread Fred proper old school he has lived a mad old life very respectable guy he is the godfather of British crime 💯 very clever man 💯☝️👍🏻

All that time in prison away from your children and wife just to get them a good education. A job making a living would have been more productive and he would have had the respect he craved . Instead spending about 14,15, in prison in total. That time he could have had with his family. Don't forget his conscience for his crime. He made life hard for himself.😎☘️

@michaelharrison3602

Ай бұрын

Thats how life works 😅

RESPECT, Old School Gentlemen!

He wasn't terrifying unless you messed him around. .

“Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.” - G. Michael Hopf

@benlotus2703

9 ай бұрын

''C'Mon Man'' joe Biden

@michaelharrison3602

Ай бұрын

My parents generation had it hard with the war and the blitz but it made them strong and made good times fo my generation.we had it easier as a result my children's generation are soft their children will have hard times as a result 😅

Typical ❤️ making criminals out the poor ♥️

Proper lad.

If you upset Freddie, he would nail your head to a coffee table.

@mattgosling2657

2 ай бұрын

You'd need a very long nail to do that so I don't believe that was something that he used to do.

@michaelharrison3602

Ай бұрын

But he'd buy you a drink afterwards and send your mum flowers 😅

called ducking and diving old cockney word for having your hands in various pies ie non egal stuff x