Blackpool Rock, The: Gangsters, Guns and Door Wars in Britain's Wildest Town

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This piece covers the time when Mixie Walsh took the place of Abie Tobias as the “top man” (Frankie Fraser’s words) in Blackpool. If you’ve not heard of the Kray twins, you’ve probably missed out on watching some really cool gangster movies as well as keeping your ears closed because Reggie and Ronald Kray are two of the most notorious British gangsters in history. You will not hear a bad word from anybody and all his numerous godchildren remember a good humoured, witty man. Mother of one Jessica Lang, 21, would join her lover Scott Le Drew on cash deliveries and liaised with her brothers Bradley and Anthony Gill as they arranged vast quantities of cocaine, cannabis and amphetamine to be ferried from Manchester to Blackpool. Bradley McSpirit, 25, of Blackpool who helped with deliveries was jailed for 11 years and four months whilst Blu Leahy, 24, of Blackpool who sourced cocaine supplies was jailed for eight years.

While Marisa has managed to turn her life around, she knows only too well how others never escape crime. A poor condition book can still make a good reading copy but is generally not collectible unless the item is very scarce. If we see the QSG as a social group rather than a crime gang we can see that they were like the circle around Mixie Walsh.

For Abie to be involved in something as “hands on” as a robbery and to bring colleagues from London there had to be a personal motive. Max Moreano, 18, was involved in a minor dispute at William Lyons House, a supported housing complex for vulnerable young people in Blackpool, on July 19 2022. I told him I would never put my adult children in that situation, I would sacrifice myself before that. I believe he had held up The National Provincial Bank (as was) with a Tommy Gun, for which he went to jail, Armley maybe.

I do have issue with the mention of Blackpool Mecca Highland room being an all-nighter for Northern Soul. To sum up briefly the 20 year old daughter of Bill Harrison, a prominent businessman was in an accident in which her car mounted the pavement and two young mothers were killed. The shooting incident that Paul Lund mentions involving “Blackpool Mary” may not have been a coincidence. We know about Lee Broadbent from Poulton, 31, who was arrested in Torremolinos and John Alan Brooks aged 61 who was arrested on a visit to his family in Blackpool.Reggie was mourning the suicide of his wife and Ronnie was drinking a lot which didn’t help with his paranoid schizophrenia.

Education News about local schools, educational policies, student achievements, and events in the education sector. I was just a slack jawed teenager taking it all in but can remember Lash’m Larry as he was sometimes referred to, dressed in a herringbone overcoat, trilby, diamond tie pin and packing a Luger under his armpit or so I was told later but it was well known that he ‘packed’. For me Margaret Thatcher could do no right, but credit for her glorious sang froid on the occasion of the Brighton Bombing. Somebody once told me that they should have a memorial in the toilets of the Dinmore to all the people who have died there of overdoses. The funeral cortege passed the corpses of two men placed like evil flowers along the route of the funeral procession.Readers of the Gazette were fascinated when he was involved with Evelyn Lees, a Blackpool Beauty Queen contestant. Abie Tobias’ daughter had been “walking out” with a local Police Constable until his superiors had warned him off.