Fighting other schools

Back in the early 70's at Wilbraham there regularly used to be the rumour that the 'Big Fight' was going to happen with Chorlton High. It'd start in the morning and build during the day, always going to be after school, always in Chorlton Park and everyone had to be there. Strangely, it never actually happened, the only time it came close to happening, probably 1973, when the Police attended. I remember being dragged into the hall and the Head announcing a '2 minute amnesty' for lads to leave anything they shouldn't have on the stage steps. You've never seen an armoury like it! Knives, axes, hammers, knuckle dusters the works, the best was when one lad started yanking a seemingly never ending chain out of his pocket with a ball bearing on the end of it.
 
Barcon said:
We used to chase each other up and down rose hey lane and Hulmes rd. Getting too close to Graver lane could result in a Newton Heath, Clayton, Failsworth clusterfuck.
Failsworth and Newton Heath would usually meet up around Props hall drive/Averill street.
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I moved to failsworth in 76. I had no idea what was going on with newton heath, clayton and failsworth. I thought it would be a good idea to cycle to see my old mates one night. On the way home i had to come down hulmes rd. Still to this day don't know how i got through unscathed. Never tried it again.
 
Baggins.mcfc said:
I moved to failsworth in 76. I had no idea what was going on with newton heath, clayton and failsworth. I thought it would be a good idea to cycle to see my old mates one night. On the way home i had to come down hulmes rd. Still to this day don't know how i got through unscathed. Never tried it again.
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We sold our house in Failsworth a few months before we moved to Canada in 1978 and had to stay with my Gran off Briscoe lane. Every night I would get off the bus coming back from seeing my mates in Failsworth and have to fight my way down Ten acres lane to my Grans house. I practically had to wear a fake mustache and beard if i wanted to go see my other Gran off Scotland hall rd.
 
I was at Heys Road in Prestwich in the early 70's, we usually had a run in with St Josephs and Albert Road in Whitefield. I usually arranged the meet ups and got the kids organised. I didn't last long in that teaching job :-(
 
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toffee balls said:
Kicked off one time between Moseley Hall and Hulme Hall in Cheadle Hulme in the late 70’s.
An older lad from Moseley called Bill Grundy decided it would be a good idea to use his steelies to massage another lads temples
Putting him in a coma.

Bill lived on my street. His Mum confiscated the said boots and hid them in a shallow grave in a den on the back field.
I know, cos I found em.
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His mum joyce was my godmother
 
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