The scuttlers: Was your Victorian ancestor in a Manchester gang?
The scuttlers of Ancoats, Angel Meadow and Salford were the most feared street fighters in the Victorian city. Can you help find them?
I’ve begun working on a new project about scuttlers in Ancoats, Salford and Angel Meadow and wondered if you could help me tell it?
The scuttlers — both lads and girls — were gangs who prowled the streets of Manchester in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and waged war on the city’s police force.
