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Scuttlers were Manchester’s original street gangs, operating throughout the city in the late Victorian period.
Mainly based in the streets around the cotton mills of Ancoats, the gangs of youngsters — some as young as 12 — engaged in brutal turf wars with rival gangs often just one street away.
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