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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Mike & Bernie Winters were English brothers who formed a comedy double act, consisting of Mike Winters, born Michael Weinstein (15 November 1930) and Bernie Winters, born Bernie Weinstein (6 September 1932 - 4 May 1991). The act was very popular in the United Kingdom from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s. The Winters were born in Islington, London to Jewish parents. In the brother's biography, Shake a Pagoda Tree, published in 1967 by W.H. Allen, Mike remembered the area as one of the toughest in London. Thieving and violent robbery were commonplace, shootings not infrequent, and the police patrolled always in pairs. When Bernie was three, the Weinstein family moved to a house in Tottenham across the road from Georgie Marks, who later became Harrison Marks, innovator of a new concept in photography. Mike recalled that it was with Georgie that he mounted his first 'promotion'. We would dress up in whatever clothes we had managed to scrounge from our parents and put on shows in our garden. Bernie's friend was Danny Sewell, younger brother of George who went on to star in such shows as 'Special Branch' and 'UFO'.

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