Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants

I read this June 2017.  I borrowed it from Pat McHugh as it was about the Elephant and Castle district of London, where I was born and raised.  It was interesting in a way, as the Elephant has become somewhat gentrified over the years, and this book was a truer reflection of how it was when I was growing up in the 60s and 70s (I was born 1955) . Basically supposed to be about the gang of women thieves, shoplifters headed up by Alice Diamond on the beginning of the 20th century.
It read too much like a text book, so much crammed in that really wasn't about the women and how they operated.  It did mean the father of a boy at my primary school - Gregpry Powell, whose father was a stunt man.