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The last of the famous
International playboys
In our lifetime those who kill
The newsworld hands them stardom
And these are the ways
On which I was raised
These are the ways
On which I was raised .............
Gangland pub goes up for sale
By Jenny Davey
THE London pub immortalised as the place where the late Ronnie Kray shot dead his rival gangster George Cornell has been put up for sale with a price tag of £125,000 for a 30-year-lease.
The Blind Beggar, in Whitechapel, is being marketed through Christie & Co, the property agent, on behalf of Baker Tilly, the administrator, after Corporate Catering, its previous owner, collapsed into administration last month.
Martin Davis, of Christie & Co, said that he had already received offers from local pub owners looking to expand their holdings, adding that he was hopeful that the pub would fetch more than the asking price. “Obviously the pub has a novelty value because of its history, but it also has a loyal following in the local community,” he said.
On face value the pub appears like many other smoke-filled local drinking holes, but as well as the loyal local clientele and passing trade from shoppers at Whitechapel Market, the pub also remains firmly on the tourist trail.
“Mad” Frankie Fraser, a former associate of the Krays, regularly conducts tours of the old East End ganglands which end up in the Blind Beggar.
Cornell was sitting on a bar stool next to the jukebox in March 1966 when Kray walked up to him, pulled out a 9mm Mauser semiautomatic pistol and shot him three times in the head.
One of the bullets is said to have ricocheted off the bar and into the jukebox.
When the track got stuck, legend has it that Kray grinned and said: “Well, the sun ain’t gonna shine for him any more.” The Blind Beggar is being sold as part of a package of 14 leasehold pubs, which also includes the Dysart Arms, a well-known food pub in Richmond, southwest London. Christie & Co said that all the pubs would be sold as “going concerns” and staff were expected to keep their jobs. An advertising campaign starts next week.
Ruffian
Oh, don't say you don't
Please say you do, I am the...
The last of the famous
International playboys
In our lifetime those who kill
The newsworld hands them stardom
And these are the ways
On which I was raised
These are the ways
On which I was raised .............
Gangland pub goes up for sale
By Jenny Davey
THE London pub immortalised as the place where the late Ronnie Kray shot dead his rival gangster George Cornell has been put up for sale with a price tag of £125,000 for a 30-year-lease.
The Blind Beggar, in Whitechapel, is being marketed through Christie & Co, the property agent, on behalf of Baker Tilly, the administrator, after Corporate Catering, its previous owner, collapsed into administration last month.
Martin Davis, of Christie & Co, said that he had already received offers from local pub owners looking to expand their holdings, adding that he was hopeful that the pub would fetch more than the asking price. “Obviously the pub has a novelty value because of its history, but it also has a loyal following in the local community,” he said.
On face value the pub appears like many other smoke-filled local drinking holes, but as well as the loyal local clientele and passing trade from shoppers at Whitechapel Market, the pub also remains firmly on the tourist trail.
“Mad” Frankie Fraser, a former associate of the Krays, regularly conducts tours of the old East End ganglands which end up in the Blind Beggar.
Cornell was sitting on a bar stool next to the jukebox in March 1966 when Kray walked up to him, pulled out a 9mm Mauser semiautomatic pistol and shot him three times in the head.
One of the bullets is said to have ricocheted off the bar and into the jukebox.
When the track got stuck, legend has it that Kray grinned and said: “Well, the sun ain’t gonna shine for him any more.” The Blind Beggar is being sold as part of a package of 14 leasehold pubs, which also includes the Dysart Arms, a well-known food pub in Richmond, southwest London. Christie & Co said that all the pubs would be sold as “going concerns” and staff were expected to keep their jobs. An advertising campaign starts next week.
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