Chapter 13
That year Matt arrived for the summer break as usual. Alice seemed normal, but George was a different story. He was preoccupied, he was under pressure from a new south London gang wanting to take the doors from some of his clubs and pubs. There had already been some set-tos and now it had escalated. It all came to a head on the 3rd August 1968.
There had been a call at the Addington Arms; the south siders were going to attack the Black Swan pub opposite Bow Church. George had sent his best men, Mr Brown and Mr Smith, with Deny in charge. He was going to put an end to this right now. George waited at home, dressed and ready in case he was needed. Matt sat in the front room with Al and Nan Alice. Even though he was only ten, he knew something was wrong, but didn’t know what. The
