The Gangland Soho Walking Tour

08/06/2026

Last January, many of you were fortunate enough to be at our packed Q-and-A about the Soho writer Frank Norman. Chaired by Max Décharné, it featured Frank’s widow, Geraldine, and grandson, Joe Daniel, who was behind the successful reissue of Soho Night & Day – the 1960s book featuring text by Frank and striking black-and-white photos by his friend Jeffrey Bernard. Joe has kindly agreed to be the guide for a walk through Frank Norman’s Soho, beginning at 2.30pm on Sunday 26 July.

Tickets to Frank Norman’s Soho can be purchased via the following link: https://www.sohemiansociety.com. This link can also be used to purchase the steadily diminishing number of tickets to the Science & Wonder in the Victorian West End guided walk, as well as the events with Robert Elms, Iain Sinclair, and Andrew Lownie.

Our recording of the Soho Night & Day event is still available for free on Radio Sohemia, the latest edition of which has just gone online. It’s a lively and often funny Q-and-A with Helen Fry about an espionage network that MI6 operated in Belgium during both the First and Second World Wars. To listen to this or any of the other editions of Radio Sohemia, just click on one of the following links:

https://open.spotify.com/show/7v8RaoDrQRjS5HUDxb6Lfz

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radio-sohemia/id1798432565

26/05/2026

SATURDAY’S SOHO TOURS

Saturday, 30th May.

11am, The Bowie’s Soho Tour.

2.30pm, The Gangland Soho Tour

Book https://www.flipsidelondontours.com/london-music-walking-tours see our 5⭐️reviews/Book at https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g186338-d6949350-Reviews-FlipsideLondon_Tours-London_England.html or just turn up on the day and save on booking fees.

18/05/2026

OUR NEXT TOURS

Saturday, 23rd and 30th May, at 2.30pm

The Gangland Soho Tour

20/04/2026

THIS WEEKS TOURS

Thurs 23rd Apr, 11am
Camden Calling

Fri 24th Apr, 2.30pm,
The Original Soho Punk Tour

Sat, 25th Apr, 11am
Bowie’s Soho and at 2.30pm Gangland Soho

15/04/2026

OUR NEXT TOURS

Saturday, 25th April and Saturday, 23rd and 30th May, all at 2.30pm

The Gangland Soho Tour

15/04/2026

Those wonderful people at the Soho Bites podcast had me on again to talk about Soho dodgepot Bernie Silver, the Maltese and Soho’s finest.

You can check it out here https://sohobitespodcast.com/episode/51?fbclid=IwZnRzaARMd7tleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeRaDyh6jisCtXLUHR6I-_z3MDGbIPTwpVnO1XwvRrEv5A-uPKS5KhlCWpjQg_aem_PDds_

Bernie and Big Frank Mifsud flanking Rocky Marciano below.
Portobello Radio

17/02/2026

OUR NEXT TOURS

Fri 27th Feb, 2.30pm, Sun 1st Mar, 11.30am
The Original Soho Punk Tour

Sat, 28th Feb, 11am
Bowie’s Soho tour and at 2.30pm Gangland Soho tour

Book at https://www.flipsidelondontours.com/london-music-walking-tours check our 5 ⭐️ reviews/book at https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g186338-d6949350-Reviews-FlipsideLondon_Tours-London_England.html or turn up and pay on the day

08/01/2026

OUR NEXT TOURS

Saturday, 28th February and Saturday, 28th March, both at 2.30pm

The Gangland Soho Tour

22/12/2025

The Maltese gangs in Soho

The Soho Mafia: Maltese Syndicates, Bernie Silver, and the Kray TwinsLondon’s West End in the 1960s wasn’t just glitz, neon, and nightlife. Behind the bright...

22/12/2025

Thanks to Mark Baxter for this clip.

Spot got “retired” by Billy Hill and Albert Dimes. Most of the early bookies were former illegal street bookies or criminals cashing in on legalised betting, just more fighting over pitches that were now shops. The big bookies of today have roots in all this and were dodgy themselves back in the day.

In 1964 ITN joined both police and gangsters in an exposé across London’s most notorious crime hotspots, uncovering violent gang warfare at the heart of the ...