The scuttlers and the police who fought back
When the scuttler Henry Burgess waged a one-man terror campaign on the streets of Manchester, only one man was brave enough to stop him
The police officers who patrolled the streets during Victorian Manchester’s scuttling epidemic took their lives in their hands every time they went on the beat.
In the 1890s, gangs of feral boys and girls were engaged in a fierce war with youths in rival neighbourhoods.
Known as scuttlers because of the way they scuttled spider-like across the pavements a…
