Investigation into the gangs and smugglers who fought for control of Essex's ports in the 70s and 80s, turning its seaside towns into their violent playground. One of the East End's most notorious gangsters, Danny's life has been one filled action, danger and villainy. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. It shouldn't be used for commercial use which includes advertising, marketing, promotion, packaging, advertorials, and consumer or merchandising products. It is told by one of those men himself, Danny Woollard, who recounts his early childhood days in Manor Park, and tells how, through a sense of youthful exuberance and adventurousness, he became embroiled in a life of 'crime and time', leading to an 11-year jail term.

I wanted too get this as some of my family are in this book and I needed too read for myself about life back then for them and since this books release some years ago different things are shared or kept away and Danny who wrote the book has since passed away so I’m glad I’ve now got my copy and can read myself. Many episodes concentrate on cities around the UK: London, Liverpool, Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham. Bernard O'Mahony (Standing) with (seated left - right) Bernie Khan, Danny Woolard, Billy Frost, Frank Fraser, Eddie Richardson, David Fraser, Lenny Hamilton and Nick Reynolds attend the launch party of British Gangster: Faces of the Underworld which will be on Yesterday channel and released on DVD through Revelation Films this November, at Maison Bertaux in central London.

Danny Wollard was born and brought up in London's East End, and is one of the most well-known and recognisable faces from the underworld. Anyhow, after that, I gave up boxing promoting for a while and concentrated on my scrap business, just to let things quieten down for a while. Behind upscale streets and tranquil parks, some of Britain's most ruthless gangsters keep police, judges and politicians busy protecting the public. According to Danny, legendary McLean, who died of lung cancer in 1998, faced more drama earlier in the night when his rival Barry Dalton supposedly pulled a gun on him. Billy ‘The Bomb’ Williams was a notorious heavyweight brawler, who was once trained by Muhammad Ali’s mentor Angelo Dundee.

And according to Danny's book: “Lenny McLean and a few very large black men started to give this drunken youth a good kicking.In each episode, current and former gang members and active criminals are interviewed by presenter and former member of the Essex Boys gang, Bernard O'Mahoney. In his book Wild Cats, he claimed the hooligans rocked up at Woodford Football Club after an ICF member was supposedly battered unconscious in the audience. Explaining the carnage that unfolded, he wrote: “They all came, motor-loads of them, tooled up and looking for revenge. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The series was broadcast on Discovery's Quest channel in the UK in April 2014 (S1) and July 2015 (S2).

Rich in colourful characters and chaotic, often violent events, the book charts robberies, dog-fights, rape, furious vendettas and the frequent brutalities of prison life.

Another added:” I think you can safely remove Mickey Rourke from any band of hard men, he’s all Hollywood.