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I have had the intention of doing some podcasts on the Kray gang for some time. As the story has been so well told and so well known I am concentrating on some background and lesser known stories. This is part one of the first Kray podcast. So part one of part one! 
I will post part two tomorrow. 
This podcast is not really about the Kray gang, but of an incident that gave the Krays the chance to become the dominant gang in London. The affray and shoot out at Mr Smith's club in Catford in South London.
I will be posting other Kray podcasts over the next couple of months, these will be based on police records and other available material trying to get past the myths and tell the true story.

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Four chapters of Hells Angels meet in a Yorkshire pub in Normanton and start drinking heavily. What could possibly go wrong?  The crime is not a mystery and this is more of a period piece of life in the UK in Yorkshire during 1975.
This is  a short podcast, probably an unknown story made in a few hours just to post something in August. 
I have another podcast to post towards the end of the month.
 I am working on a couple of longer projects, including a podcast on the Krays, telling of some of the unknown stories and showing what thugs they actually were. I know that there is little need, or interest for another pod on the Krays, but I have some new material that I picked up during other podcasts that I had not known about and and I feel that I have to make a pod on them as I did on Jack the Ripper having lived in that area of London.
Just to explain again, this story is low fi and there is a cat and dog disturbance  which I managed to stop recording, but I left an electric fan running for a few minutes after ejecting creatures which I have tried to drown out with background music. Thank you for listening.

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Hello Anybody reading this,  the first 12 minutes of the podcast is background on Preston Manor, is is quite complicated and listening back I have to concentrate, so maybe you could skip that part although it gives some  context to the story, which could be understood as young rich folks constructing a family ghost story because it amuses them.
This podcast has the normal incompetent narration and probable mispronunciation. How do you pronounce the name Vere? There are two people with this name in the podcast and I have never heard it before, I pronounce it with one syllable, which seemed most likely to me.
Thank You for listening.

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This story dates back to August 1965 and events between then and 2014. I have called this episode the Margate Monster referring to Alan Houchin who served  ten years for murder was then released,  still being in denial,  to commit more crime. 
I am working on some longer complicated cases at present, one of which will be the next paranormal episode. 
I will try to post photos on the Facebook page although I seem to have upset someone who has hacked my account and uploaded some terrorist and child abuse type material which has resulted in the account being suspended and there is no appealing to Facebook. I will post some images on Instagram.  

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The Sussex town of Worthing had the misfortune to have Al Watson move there in 1964 after finishing his latest prison sentence. Watson was a delusional and incompetent criminal who was dishonest and cheated everyone, not discriminating amongst friend or foe. 
Watson soon met and moved in with wealthy but vulnerable widow Ruby Roberts. The relationship seemed fraught from the beginning, finally resulting in people fishing off a Kent coast making an unpleasant discovery.
This is another case that seems to have been v virtually forgotten, the information for the podcast coming from the police records sourced at the National Archives. There were some particularly unpleasant  photos in the file. 
I record the podcast in one take as life is too short for editing. I like the idea of an old time live radio programme telling a story. I hesitate, mumble and make mistakes over pronunciation, so if this is a problem, then please do not listen. 

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This episode is quite a remarkable story, I said in the pod that  it could have been the plot of an Ian McEwan novel. 
We go back to 1961 to examine a double murder at Aldington, Kent. It was quite quickly solved by Detective chief Superintendent John Du Rose, although I call him Detective Inspector in the podcast. Another mistake in the podcast which I knew I was saying it wrong as I said it, this was the pronunciation of Gillingham. But as I claim not to edit podcasts, it had to stay as it was.
The information is sourced from Primary sources. I have put some photos on the Strange Stories UK Facebook site.

I am working on a couple of much longer podcasts which I think I will put out in parts. One of these will be about some unknown stories about the Kray gang. It has been so much easier and lighter putting out shorter episodes, I think 30-40 minutes is the ideal length which I am aiming to do in the future although some will overrun.

As always I stumble over words and the podcast is produced in lo-fi.

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This is another short podcast about a story long forgotten. It is a sad story set in Eastbourne, a seaside town in Sussex during 1949.  The story is told in lo-fi.

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This is a short, straight forward case of a murder from 1944 taken from Police records. Nobody will remember a case that has faded from memory. I intend to post a few more short forgotten cases before the end of this series. I am also working on some podcasts about the Krays, not so much about the well known stories but the unpublished stories and those at the fringes of their corruption.
Please be advised this podcast is unedited and lo-fi.

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This podcast is dedicated to Megan Finlay Horowitz, a friend of the podcast and a fellow cat lover.
The podcast examines a number of alledged paranormal cats and briefly looks at cat folklore. It is something of a ramble into related subjects. 
I also realise that I have not posted on the Strange Stories UK group Facebook site for about 18 months. Now I have finished with the website, I will make greater use of this site and post photos and answer any questions. I will post something for every podcast made from this date.
As per normal, this podcast has not been edited and I stumble over words and probably mispronounce certain words, so I apologise for that.

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this was a well known case although virtually forgotten today, a prosecution for a conspiracy to corrupt public morals. There were a number of prosecutions for this charge in the 1960s, almost all were found guilty. Usually the cases were for showing 'blue' movies or adverts placed by GAY men in newspapers such as the underground paper International Times (IT). The Oz and the IT trials are better remembered today. The offence  of conspiracy to  'corrupt public morals' isn't properly described or found in any public statute. It is when the authorities think something should be done about something the law has not previously forbidden. This case was made up by public authorities in 1960 to prosecute the Ladies Directory publisher Fred Shaw. 
Please be warned, this podcast is lo-fi and has not been edited and I am not a good narrator.