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Description: | Jil Cove was born in Brighton and trained as a nurse from 1957 to 1960. She first came to London in 1960 to train in midwifery at the London Hospital, Whitechapel. Here, in conversation with Stefan Dickers of Bishopsgate Institute, she recalls socialising with Reggie Kray in the Grave Maurice pub in Whitechapel Road. Reggie Kray was a notorious gangster who ran an East End gang called "the Firm" with his twin brother Ronnie. Both brothers were eventually gaoled for life in 1969 for the murders of gangsters George Cornell (committed in the nearby pub the Blind Beggar) and Jack "the Hat" McVitie. Ms Cove also recalls the special status accorded to doctors and nurses in the East End. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Bishopsgate Institute | Rights holder: | Bishopsgate Institute | Subjects: | Public services Leisure | Temporal: | 2008 | Source: | Bishopsgate Institute | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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