The Gangland Soho Walking Tour

The Gangland Soho Walking Tour .A journey through Soho's criminal past. Soho's gangland heyday was the 1920s to the 1970s and is explored in detail on this two hour tour. Think again! Only £15!

Since the arrest of a "Lewd Woman" in Soho Fields for a "Breach of the peace" in 1641 Soho has been synonymous with vice and its constant companion crime. Think drug taking in nightclubs is a recent phenomenon? It was all going on in the 1920s.The "SuperStar" criminals are all here, The Krays, The Richardsons, "Mad" Frankie Fraser and some you might not know, The Sabinis, The Whites, Jack "Spot" Comer, Billy Hill, Alfred "Italian Jock" Dimes and Ronnie Knight. The people that made the real money were the p**nographers and pimps, The Messinas, Bernie Silver, Jimmy Humphries and Paul Raymond all helped along by corrupt Metropolitan Police officers and an eager paying public. Meet at Goodge Street Station, the tour goes ahead whatever the weather. You can book on the website or pay on the day
see you there.

Rupert Street, 1970s
15/07/2026

Rupert Street, 1970s

15/07/2026
Berwick Street, Soho, 1973. Part of Jimmy Humphreys p**n operation, he was an enthusiastic payer of bribes to “The Dirty...
26/06/2026

Berwick Street, Soho, 1973. Part of Jimmy Humphreys p**n operation, he was an enthusiastic payer of bribes to “The Dirty Squad”

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

OUR NEXT TOURSSaturday, 23rd and 30th May, at 2.30pmThe Gangland Soho Tour
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OUR NEXT TOURS

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