The Real London of Peaky Blinders

In series two of Peaky Blinders, the BBC series based around the Birmingham gangs that ruled the racecourses after World War One, Tommy Shelby and his boys head to London. This brings them up against the Italian gangster Sabini, and Jewish gangster Alfie Solomons. But is Peaky Blinders based on real life? This ninety minute walk led by Islington guide Rob Smith looks at the true story of the Sabini gang, and visits some of their haunts in what was London's Little Italy. Rob will tell some stories from the mean streets of gangland and introduce some more of London's gangs from the Titanic mob of pre First World War London, to gangsters like Mad Frankie Fraser who grew up in the world of the Sabini's.