THE SCUTTLERS WERE YOUTH GANGS FROM THE VICTORIAN ERA THAT TERRORISED THE CITY STREETS OF MANCHESTER & SALFORD.
THEY SPAWNED FROM THE SLUM AREAS OF THE 2 CITIES AND DECLARED WAR UPON ONE ANOTHER. THEY WASN'T MOTIVATED BY MONEY BUT BY BRAGGING RIGHTS...WHO WAS THE TOUGHEST GANG! THEY CAUSED HAVOC AND CARNAGE AND THE POLICE COULDN'T REALLY CONTROL THEM. EVENTUALLY THERE WAS HOPE. THE OPENING OF LOCAL LADS CLUBS GAVE THESE YOUTHS A SECOND CHANCE. THEY SWAPPED THE STREET GANG FIGHTS FOR SPORTS SUCH AS BOXING & FOOTBALL. THEY PLAYED OTHER RIVAL LADS CLUBS IN THESE SPORTS SO MUCH SO THAT ST. MARKS LADS CLUB FORMED WEST GORTON FC WHO 10 YEARS LASTER CHANGED THERE NAME & THEY BECAME.. Manchester City.
Scuttlers were members of neighbourhood-based youth gangs (known as scuttling gangs) formed in working class areas of Manchester, Salford, and the surrounding townships during the late 19th century. It is possible to draw parallels with the London street gangs of the 1890s, whose behaviour was labelled hooliganism.
Gangs were formed throughout the slums of central Manchester, in the townships of Bradford, Gorton and Openshaw to the east and in Salford, to the west of the city. Gang conflicts erupted in Manchester in the early 1870s and went on sporadically for 30 years, declining in frequency and severity by the late 1890s.
**Some of the photographs that I have used of people in this video are not them. I have used old photographs taken from victorian mugshot crimes to represent certain characters for entertainment purposed only.
REFERENCES
All Scuttler's Mugshot photos taken from INEWS.CO.UK -
@elief/offbeat/manchesters-scuttlers-violent-street-gang-pre-dated-peaky-blinders-525964
St. Michaels church - @htm
Mining Footage - reference @British Pathé
slum photos - @an-britain/articles/the-built-environment
Greater Manchester Cross Keys / Goulden street police station greater Manchester police museum and archive reference - @ter/tours/tour16/area16page28.html
All Victorian Era footage - Guy Jones youtube -
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All music arranged by Daft Monkey.
8 сен 2024