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From HMP to the King’s Head

Reformed villain Syd Golder tells Richard Hodkinson how he abandoned crime for the theatre

QUITE a number of remarkable theatrical lives find themselves lived out along the short stretch of Islington we know today as Upper Street. From the nation’s favourite clown, Joey Grimaldi, slapsticking and pratt-falling his way through the early years of the 19th century at Sadler’s Wells to the various Attenboroughs involved in the modern Almeida Theatre, the area’s entertainment hub has never been short of colourful thespians.
Syd Golder, it can be said with some confidence, is more colourful than most. It would be remarkable enough that he became a theatrical impresario, director and actor only in his 50s. It is more notable that he was unable to take up this artistic calling any earlier because of the demands of the “small business I used to run”. Syd’s small business was robbing banks. And burglary. “I was the best ‘creeper’ in the country,” he asserts today, though without much evident pride.
He adds: “You could have been asleep in bed and I could have spent three hours clearing out your whole bedroom and you wouldn’t have heard a thing.”
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Angelino's finest are put to the test

WE came across Angelino Wines, sandwiched between two colourful and aggressively self-promoting Australian wine sellers, at Islington’s London Wine Event at the end of October.
Its owner is Farrell Anglin, whose imagination was caught by a lecture on the history of wine making at Southgate College.

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