Gangs of Manchester: The Story of the Scuttlers

The publisher of the successful The Gangs of Liverpool delivers another milestone in historical crime writing. The Bengal Tigers, the Forty Strong, the She Battery Mob and the Grey Mare Boys were some of the many gangs who fought territorial battles for pride, supremacy or mere devilment. Gangs of Manchester traces the history of the Scuttlers from the Rochdale Road War of 1870-1871, through the antics of such infamous fighters as the Bellis brothers of Salford and John Hillier, the King of the Scuttlers, to the demise of the gangs at the turn of the century.