The Gangs of Manchester

AndyDavies · #1 (**permalink**) 29/10/08, 03:33 PM

For details of a new book on the "scuttlers" - the territorial youth gangs of Victorian Manchester and Salford - see the blog at:

Gangs of Manchester

There are links to features on BBC Manchester Online and the Guardian Online, along with a couple of short extracts and details of related projects. These include a play to be staged at the Library Theatre, 19-22 August 2009.

Cheers,
Andy Davies (author of The Gangs of Manchester)

Sparkly · #2 (**permalink**) 12/11/08, 01:32 AM

thanks Andy, it looks very interesting, so I'll drop a few hints about it being a suitable Christmas Present

edit: it's probably worth pointing out that there are signings of the book at Waterstones: Trafford Centre on 15 November at noon, and Manchester on 22 November 2pm

Mamucium Son · #3 (**permalink**) 12/11/08, 09:27 AM

Wow. Can't wait to read that. Definitely on MY Xmas pressie list too.

Cheers Andy.

AndyDavies · #4 (**permalink**) 01/12/08, 04:06 PM

Thanks for the replies, much appreciated.

Descendants of some of the scuttlers mentioned in the book are beginning to get in touch. Two people I knew already have found members of their own families in there; one was a Bengal Tiger, from Ancoats, the other was one of the terrors of Greengate in Salford.

Then at the book signing at Waterstone's on Deansgate I met two of the descendants of Owen Callaghan, who was convicted of manslaughter in 1887. He was sentenced to twenty years penal servitude for the fatal stabbing of a Bengal Tiger named Joe Brady.

Andy