The Secret History of My Family: The Salford Scuttlers

The documentary charting social history through family trees begins in 1890s Salford, where press hysteria and public panic gripped the town as rival gangs were pitched in street battles. Local magistrate Joseph Makinson was determined to stamp out this gang warfare, known as scuttling. This film tells his story and that of the gang leaders he came up against, and also learns about their descendants, revealing whether violence is still part of life in working-class Salford