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The Salford Scuttlers

Episode 3 of 4

Descendants of rival gang leaders in 1890s Salford and descendants of the judge who tried to stop them tell their family stories.

Press hysteria and public panic gripped 1890s Salford as it erupted into postcode violence. Rival gangs of youths, known as scuttlers, clashed in pitched street battles. Magistrate Joseph Makinson attempted to stamp out the epidemic of gang warfare by giving the scuttlers a taste of their own medicine.

More than a century later, descendants of the rival gang leaders and descendants of the judge who tried to stop them tell their family stories, and ask whether violence is still part of life in working-class Salford.

59 minutes

Last on

Fri 2 Aug 2019 00:30
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Executive Producer Ruth Shurman
Producer Ashley Gething
Director Ashley Gething
Series Producer Joseph Bullman

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