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The Gangs Of Liverpool: From the Cornermen to the High RIP: Street Gangs in Victorian Liverpool by Michael Macilwee (Paperback, 2006)

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One evening in 1874, twenty-six-year-old Richard Morgan was walking home from a Bank Holiday trip with his wife when he was set upon and brutally kicked to death by a vicious young gang. The Tithebarn Street Outrage, as it became known, brought starkly to public attention the mobs of thugs who plagued Liverpool at a time when the city was one of the world's greatest and most prosperous seaports. Long hidden in the shadows of the fetid slums and alleyways, the gangs of Liverpool now emerged to take centre stage. Over the following years, the wicked exploits of the Hibernians, the Dead Rabbits and the Finnon Haddie would make them household names. But most feared of all were the High Rip Gang, who announced themselves with the infamous Blackstone Street Murder and went on to terrorise the city centre streets as they fought a bitter war with their sworn enemies, the Logwood Gang. Emulating them were juvenile mobs with names, such as the Lemon Street Gang and the Housebreakers Gang.