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Thread #115662   Message #2479908
Posted By: JohnB
30-Oct-08 - 10:43 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: Youth gangs in Victorian Manchester (UK)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Youth gangs in Victorian Manchester (UK)
As a kid (born 1950) growing up in Newton Heath, there was always rumours of an annual fight between the "Newtoners" and the "Claytoners". It supposedly happened I think around Easter time near Clayton Bridge Railway Station, although I was never party to anything like that. Our "gang" got no worse than raiding the Bonfire pile of the kids from two streets over, "well they started it!"
JohnB