S13 Ep14: The Real Peaky Blinders
Blood Ties Podcast
Peter Shevlin
4.4 • 668 Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Long before the hit TV series turned them into legends, the real Peaky Blinders ruled the backstreets of Birmingham. With swagger in their step, and blood on their hands — they were the original urban gangsters of Britain’s industrial age.
In Blood Ties: The Real Peaky Blinders, we uncover the brutal truth behind the myth — the poverty, the power, and the violence that shaped a generation of men who became symbols of rebellion. We separate fact from fiction to reveal how a local street gang became an enduring piece of British folklore.
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Presenters: Geoffrey and Molly Wansell
Producer: Peter Shevlin https://pod60.com/
Artwork: George Leigh
Music: Dan Wansell
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| 0:00.0 | There were basically five of them. |
| 0:10.0 | The most powerful was a man called Kevin Mooney, although his real name was actually Thomas Gilbert. |
| 0:18.0 | He used many aliases. He was the oldest at 3,000. |
| 0:28.6 | He was the oldest at 38 of a gang based in Smallheath in Birmingham. |
| 0:47.1 | They were all linked with an attack on a man called George Eastwood |
| 0:49.3 | in March 1890 at the Rainbow Public House |
| 0:52.9 | in Adlerley Street in Birmingham. |
| 1:10.8 | Hi everyone, it's Molly Wonsall. |
| 1:13.1 | And I'm Geoffrey Wonsall. |
| 1:15.0 | We're back and we are hoping that you might be able to help us out. |
| 1:19.4 | Yes, we're very keen to expand our community. |
| 1:22.7 | It's wonderful to be back and we get very, very positive responses. |
| 1:26.8 | And I've been very lucky. I've |
| 1:28.0 | had lots of messages. But we could do more and we need your help to do that. Yeah, we really, |
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| 1:47.4 | and hopefully they'll start listening to because we just want to build on our community. |
| 1:51.7 | Yeah, so how do you do it, Mo? |
| 1:53.0 | What's how do you do it? |
| 1:53.8 | You just click on the show itself and then scroll down under the episodes and you'll see a place where you can rate and write a rate. |
| 2:00.2 | Okay, well, anything you'd like to do, that would be enormous, enormous help to us. |
| 2:05.5 | Yeah, and for everyone who's done it so far, thank you so much. |
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