Comments on: About Gangs of Manchester

By: Can you judge a book by its cover? | 曬蝴蝶 ( vanessapsy )

Can you judge a book by its cover? | 曬蝴蝶 ( vanessapsy ) — Mon, 09 May 2011 14:34:34 +0000

[...] girly cover, or the justifiable disappointment of OZKT29B, about the cover of Andrew Davies’s The Gangs of Manchester: 『While the book is a serious, scholarly affair the jacket is a mock-up of the Gangs of New York [...]

By: Thomas Lamb

Thomas Lamb — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:36:26 +0000

Hello Harold,
I hope you enjoyed the book i am waiting for it to be delivered as i write and can’t wait to start on it..
The reason i am contacting you is you said you had a collection of photographs and prints, there is a site on Facebook called Collyhurst Forever with lots of photo’s and comments about the area i am sure you would like the site there is also a Ancoats and Miles Platting site.
regards Thomas Lamb

By: Harold Moores

Harold Moores — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:44:49 +0000

I have just learnt of the publication of Andrews Davies book on the Manchester gangs, and I hope shortly to be reading it . My family forebears lived for 140 years(1780-1921) in inner Manchester, first in Angel Meadow, then in Ancoats and the Rochdale Road, and finally in Harpurhey. I have followed their movements and their intermarriages through often dreadful slum situations, and in the process have collected a large archive of photographic images and prints. Most of my research was done in the 1980′s, and I could do with some brushing up, but am happy to help any researchers. My father b. 1907 sometimes reminisced about gangs encountered around Harpurhey in his boyhood, and ironically when I visited the area in 1983, in view of some new but recently firebombed and abandoned blocks of flats I received warnings of the presence in the neighborhood of knife-wielding and extremely violent ‘kids’ roaming the area in gangs.

By: The Territories of Youth « The Vapour Trail

The Territories of Youth « The Vapour Trail — Sun, 17 May 2009 23:47:56 +0000

[...] the twentieth century. And he has also directed me to the fabulous work of Andrew Davies, author of The Gangs of Manchester (the cover image for which appears above) and a soon-to-be-perfomed play on the subject, Angels [...]

By: Marie Hultonh

Marie Hultonh — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:26:50 +0000

My father was born and brought up in Collyhurst. Indeed I can vouch for these stories as he told me of many similar ones. They had to be tough to survive and the women were pretty tough too, I remember my grandma she was product of this culture, coming from Ancoats herself. I suppose there will always be this underclass in society and they engage in this type of behaviour for many reasons, a couple being thrill and entertainment.