The really frightening bit about this thread is: -
Although I now live in Reading I was was brumpt up on Teesside and saw the 66 Gang show in Middlesboro having been involved in all Gang shows from 1964 - 74, accross the river in Stockton!

Can anyone still remember the hand actions! I can still remember the opening of '64 as I was the first little lad aged circa 11 on stage for the gang show 1964!

I suppose folk was a natural development from camp fires with old songs and story telling etc. etc. etc.

Andy