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LONDON'S TEDDY BOYS.
What are the facts?
London Express Service
DON'T QUOTE ME, SAID
THE CLUB
LEADER...
'I'M AFRAID OF REPRISALS*
MONG the heavy,
ugly blocks
counell flats in Cherry Gardens Street, Rotherhithe. 1 searched for the home of Joseph Fell, bus conductor. At the greengrocers, they knew him.
ROBERT J. EDWARDS
offensively. Mr Butterworth ask-
Warming her hands over n brazier inside the shop, n woman assistant said: "Jim Fell, you mean? The one that got it from the Teddy Boys--grotesque in their tight, Boys? That's him. acrass the street."
He might have been mistaken
ed thens to leave, The Teddy
high-hitched drainpipe trousers.
out
producing ten - shilling notes when ordering a cup of tea.
"Only in the gymnasium did we have no trouble. The Teddy Boys never went near the place. That is the big difference be tween them and the prewar toughs, The Teddy Boy is essen- tially a coward and a "bully."
This club tender, who now
forbids Teddy Boys, asked me east, Finchley in the north; not to mention his name. "I am wherever afraid, not of publicity, but reprisals, he said. "Several of my boys have been beaten up."
Born lazy
there are poorc of homes you will find Teddy Boys.
And wherever there aro
Teddy Boys there has been trouble. Mways the emphasis is on bully- ing.
Police
ถ
cars sent to Tooling string tics, velvet lapels and dent of the John Street Metho of
Mr Harry Moore, superinten Broadway to clear the pavements draped couts went dist Youth Club, in the shadow American soldier attacked by 12 Teddy Boy gangs... an berserk. They sinashed crockery, of Tower Bridge, s less critical Teddy Boys at Kenton, only for an old man, akuost blind. He wrecked furniture, tare
Teddy Boy manners. wore dark plasses, He moved electric
"They mile or two from Harrow, and fittings, broke slowly, uncertainly, Beside him, valuable stage equipment, ripped Henry," is his severest criticism. Jured
Up are born inzy. They have had taken to hospital, severely in patiently, walked bis angre cisterns from the wall," "and
a youthful stranger's flooded the place,
"They don't feel inclined to face badly cut by a gang of pel.
play even table tennis unless you Teddy Boys outside a Ruislip put up the table for them. And elhema...an they are remarkably fussy about school-master assaulted outside a old their appearance.
Kick and run
When the rioting Teddy Boys made their exit into the squalld strect, several hundred pounds You very seldom on worth of damage had been done. When he went to work
see a Teddy Boy November 11, he was a vigorous Now, for the first time.
wearing di land has no beast boy. "It 53. He had bias twenty years a
would
whereas bus conductor; had
served not be sufo
him,
"Mr shoes,
boys of 15 and through the blitz, knew many of Butterworth has explained. For
10 always had the regulars on the 101-minute the first time, too, the club has dirty shoes route from Comberwell Green to confersed itself defeated by the
this district. Chingford,
evli bi young men. All but_the most tepid Teddy Boys banned.
Fell naked them to go either
Darkest side
MONDAY:
TERROR IN
in
arc
"When we went camping in Cornwall,
THE
CLASSROOM
four
of our more
year
Dulwich bank. 1. # 16-year-old, Scout stobbed in the back
Campsten-ďi
Said his
Heath.
on
Emmurodo
"You give 'im back 'is razor--a fine example you're settin', teachin' kids ́ ́ter
pinch."
IS A SCOTSMAN
BRITISH?
By YORKE HENDERSON
Scotsman
I nation to man by valld nomination, paperebut mother: итието
advice about challenging
the
If they do go do court, it will nol be their fired such attempt to
has beert a lot of or "British"? The chances Town Clerk's ruling in a court trouble in this are that the average, Scot of law. district. It is not safe for decent would use the former to youngsters to be describe himself. Not that out at night."
he has anything against put right what they regard as a serious Teddy Boys wore their Such examples can be multi-being British. At the same national affront. complete Edwardian regalia plied by the score: Nobody time, he stubbornly refuses 'Slim Jim' bootlace ties, imita- knows how many Toddy Boys
When the tions brocade waistcoats, the lot there are. Estimates vary wildly to submerge a national iden- succeeded to the throne, Beot- every time they went outside between 10,000 and 30,000. But tity which, throughout the land's Nationalists wanted it the camp. The temperature was certainly these youthful gangs world, means something made clear that while she was frequently in the eighties," have..come close to terrorising quite different from Elizabeth the Seeded or, England
some parts of London, especially
"British."
Al 11.35 p.m., on the last trip that day, four Teddy Boys got on the crowded bus. Two went upstairs. Two remained on the. platform.
Of the many club caders I upstairs or inside. They refused. questioned, not che did not re- He insisted. Their, two friends gard the Toldy Boys ne, al the Joined them from upstairs, To- very least, a problem. The Rey, gether
they pushed. Fell to the Ronald Marshall, 20-year-old klcked his face-and Bed. warden of Bermondsey, Sattle- a single passenger went in ment, has resisted. understand- A club leader was asked by in the vicinity of docisland on pursuit.
able pressure from his com- the police to prefer charges the south side of the river ond For two months the conductor mitics to exclude Teddy Boys against a small group of Teddy in parts of the East End. lny in hospital. Doctors saved, for certists, one of his eyes. They are not, says Fell, no sure of the
other,
String ties
following acts of vandalism. Boys who had razor-slashed Serious nuisance.
Said to South. London
Club
sosto and leader, who has worked for 30 frames.
smushed pleture He refused: "I am a years on the darkest side of the parson," he said,
present
Queen
she was Elizabeth the First, of Scotland. This attitude is not con- Although thoir: arguments at fined to the tiny, clamorous that time sebined mmtorically, band of Scottish National, sound, their case failed at law.
bts. But it was left to the
What Her Majesty's, Govern- They are a serious nuisance Nationalists to bring the ment, did not seem ; to popre- city, once but the enlightenet That night a man was benten where they migrate on summer
elsewhere, notably in Richmonth, | matter, toʻa head,
ciate was that there was a great viów hbout Teddy Boyɛ," "We"
deal of quiet support In State' alkovou hom lute the club in up by, so it was suspected, the evenings, Wandsworth, Ham the hope of making nothing some Teddy Boya. Back came metsmil, Camden Town, Leyton,mination forms for Glasgow's
Six of them. In completing and for the Nationalists on that That was how one inan learn docent dat of them. They come the police to the club leader. Slentford, and even as far out as municipal election, wepts beside ed to take Teddy Boys seriously tributed nothing but troubou, Hould have done your Now theot another, the Rev. In the catstouri, mat darions, at',
Gillinghopt.
KADIN) the question", "Nationally? Lind
Nor did they seem to appre=" ciate that."
move-the James Butterworth,
Superk word. "Scottish." rugged, social, at stage shows.MINA
dusty,” they whiệ, **
As one citizen said to my mo..
Scuts as a whole were not con pint glicity
Would have beois spared. “ fyou canasót just djamli Clubland, Walwerin fond on They with a bad landance,
Town Clerk, In. London's several largo-scalo, bocnule the wealdés typo bë bes olube for bòyá áriák
saw something to admire, Durin [Cublina-dunze," Jobtini), santūra,
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