Peters & Lee
At the age of five, Lennie Peters was knocked down by a car and
lost the sight of his left eye.
Another accident at 16 made him totally blind. He was
sunbathing at Hampstead when louts started throwing stones. He
went over and told them to pack it up.
He lay down again in the
sun and the next thing one of them heaved half a brick at him and
got him in the other eye.
He had two operations and sight in his right eye was restored.
He was about to be discharged but the night before he was due to
go home he noticed the man in the next bed was about to fall on
the floor. He ran over to him, tried to pick him up but as he did
the sudden strain detached the retina in his eye. He hasn't seen
since. Apparently the bloke in the next bed died later anyway.
During the 1960's, some of Lennie's "encouragement and
help" came from the infamous Kray
twins, Reg and Ronnie.
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