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The Gangs of Birmingham

The True Story of the Peaky Blinders

ISBN-13: 9781903854884

Contributor(s): Philip Gooderson

Subjects: True Crime

Publisher: Milo Books

Publisher Imprint: Milo Books

Publication Date: 29-06-2010

Format: Paperback

Availability: Out of stock

£10.99

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About the book

In 1872, the boom-town of Birmingham, known as the `workshop of the world', erupted in a series of gang wars. Mobs of youths, armed with stones, heavy-buckled belts and knives, fought pitched battles on the streets in a desperate struggle for territorial supremacy. The `sloggers' were the hooligans of their day, and for 30 years they held the streets in a grip of fear. Gooderson traces the gangs' emergence in Cheapside around 1870, through the Bordesely Riot of 1874 to the brutal antics of the Simpson brothers of Aston and the cop-killer George 'Cloggy' Williams.

The Gangs of Birmingham

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