Had the book from Heather as a birthday pressie ,,it's brilliant found out a lot i didn't know about Birmingham :shocked:e-g Booth Street Handsworth was not named after William Booth as i thought ,but after a great Birmingham forger ..I grew up in Brookfields and didn't know that it was one of the major places for bare knuckle prize fighting ..also i had never read of the Murphy riots in Brum before ..brilliant book recommended for anyone with an interest in bygone Brum
I lived in Balsall Heath until 1967, i don't remember, but would be surprised if there weren't any gangs,what time are you thinking.I seem to recall a gang in Balsall Heath - The Senaston Gang? Might have this totally wrong.
Could be i was a little young to know anything about gangs then,but it was the time of the Teddy boys i guess,and i seem to remember, hearing my parents talk about some gang being taken to court for causing an affrayIt would have been 1958-1959 when I worked at Butchers Printers. Mind you the guy I worked with could spin a good tale.