The Gangs Of Liverpool: From the Cornermen to the High RIP: Street Gangs in Victorian Liverpool - Softcover

Macilwee, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1903854547 ISBN 13: 9781903854549

Publisher: Milo Books, 2006

Synopsis

Michael Macilwee has conducted exhaustive research to portray the Merseyside underworld in one of its most colourful periods, replete with Dickensian cut-throats, iron-hard detectives, mass street brawls and political intrigues.

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Review

'A fascinating tour through a long forgotten netherworld.' -- Liverpool Echo

'A riveting journey into the dark but compelling criminal history
of England's toughest city.'
-- Master Detective magazine

'Anecdote-filled and chilling.' -- The Weekly News

Synopsis

One evening in 1874, twenty-six-year-old Richard Morgan was walking home from a Bank Holiday trip with his wife when he was set upon and brutally kicked to death by a vicious young gang. The Tithebarn Street Outrage, as it became known, brought starkly to public attention the mobs of thugs who plagued Liverpool at a time when the city was one of the world's greatest and most prosperous seaports. Long hidden in the shadows of the fetid slums and alleyways, the gangs of Liverpool now emerged to take centre stage. Over the following years, the wicked exploits of the Hibernians, the Dead Rabbits and the Finnon Haddie would make them household names. But most feared of all were the High Rip Gang, who announced themselves with the infamous Blackstone Street Murder and went on to terrorise the city centre streets as they fought a bitter war with their sworn enemies, the Logwood Gang. Emulating them were juvenile mobs with names, such as the Lemon Street Gang and the Housebreakers Gang.

Edition details

• Publisher: Milo Books
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1903854547
• ISBN 13: 9781903854549
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240