Kray twins
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Ronald Kray and Reginald Kray were English identical twin brothers from Haggerston, East London, who were heavily involved in organised crime from the late 1950s until their arrest in 1968.
Reggie (left) and Ronnie Kray, photographed by David Bailey in 1965
The Blind Beggar pub in 2005
Photograph of Reginald Kray (second from left) taken in the months leading up to his trial in 1968. The evidence from this file and others resulted in him and his brother Ronald being sentenced to life imprisonment.
Ronnie and Reggie Kray's grave, Chingford
Rag-and-bone man
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A rag-and-bone man collects unwanted household items and sells them to merchants. Scraps of cloth and paper could be turned into cardboard, while broken glass could be melted down and reused, and even
Kray twins
…years old. The Kray household was dominated by the twins' mother, who remained their most important influence during their childhood. Their father was a rag-and-bone man with a fondness for heavy drinking; his work led him to live a semi-nomadic lifestyle as he travelled all over southern England looking for junk to…
The Bone-Grubber by Richard Beard. Henry Mayhew described one bone-grubber he encountered as wearing a "ragged coat ... greased over, probably with the fat of the bones he gathered."
Rag-and-bone man in Paris in 1899 (Photo Eugène Atget)
A rag-and-bone man with his horse and cart on the streets of Streatham, south-west London in 1985
A rag-and-bone man in Croydon, London, May 2011