Sheffield Gang Wars

[Suzy Q]

Hope if this one ever comes off, then you'll remember to cast someone in the role of my Nan, who got bombed out of Duke St - nr. the Red Lion! Sam Garvin was arguing the toss with someone one night outside her house, and as the family were all trying to sleep, she threw open the bedroom window, and shouted; "Nah then thee! If tha dunt shift thissen, tha'll get t'contents o' this piddle-pot o'er thi eeard!" (May Boreham -nee Rowland - the original Woman of Substance!) Anyone remember her? If we ever set off to Duke St shops from City Rd Post Office, it would take us an hour and a half to reach the bottom "wi' gassin' " to everybody en-route!

[irene dicker]

hi

can anyone tell me where i can get a book on the sheffield gang wars. I have emailed the star shop on york street but they don't have them anymore. as i live away it must be mail order

thanks

irene::

[steadiman]

Just looked on Amazon but its out of stock

[royalscam]

Irene,

 

They have it on amazon

"Sheffield Gang Wars" by J.P. Bean

[irene dicker]

Hi

thanks for the two replies i got, i will keep an eye on Amazon in case they get them in again

 

Irene

[lazyherbert]

Hi

thanks for the two replies i got, i will keep an eye on Amazon in case they get them in again

 

Irene

 

Try this.http://fr.bookbutler.com/do/bookCompare?searchFor=0950764507&amountIn=gbp&shipTo=gb&searchIn=uk&zip=

[irene dicker]

to lazyherbert

thanks for your reply, what a smashing website. i have now ordered the book

many thanks to all who replied

 

irene

[Erin]

On the 3rd of September 1925, Tom Pierrepoint carried out a double hanging at Armley and on the following day a further single execution. The first two prisoners were Alfred Bostock who had killed his mistress, Elizabeth Sherratt and 23 year old William Fowler, who was a Sheffield gangster who had taken part in the murder of an ex boxer called William Plommer in a street ambush. Fowler's brother and leader of their gang, Lawrence, was to die the following day for the same crime.

Alfred Bostock and Elizabeth Sherratt both worked for the Parkgate Ironworks in Rotherham and had fallen for each other virtually on sight. Albert was married but had a passionate affair with Elizabeth which went along very well until Elizabeth announced that she was pregnant, a setback that Alfred could simply not accept. On May 3rd, 1925, her body was found floating in the river at Rawmarsh - she had been battered to death. Bostock was the prime suspect and quickly arrested for the murder. He presented a weak alibi in his defence and although the evidence against him was circumstantial, it only took the jury 15 minutes to convict him. It is unclear why he was hanged alongside William Fowler and not alone. One surmises that the prison authorities thought there would be trouble between the Fowler brothers so had decided to hang them separately. Lawrence and William Fowler were leaders of a Sheffield gang that had been terrorising the city for some time and who considered themselves beyond the law. One of the gang's members, Trimmer Welsh, had got into a fight with William Plommer over his treatment of the barmaid in the pub where they were both drinking, and Plommer gave the man a good hiding. Plommer was ambushed by another two members of the gang, including young Wilfred Fowler, but they were no match for this powerfully built and courageous ex fighter either. Two defeats for the gang were more than its pride and arrogance could stomach so a mob of a dozen or so went to Plommer's house and when he came out to face them, they beat, stabbed and kicked him to death. They were soon rounded up, some getting prison sentences and Lawrence and William, being convicted of murder, sentenced to hang. Their executions brought to an end the gang terror in Sheffield in the 1920's.

[Jaxkenny5]

My first visit.............any one heard of a gang member called Horace Osgood............could be my granddad????????????????

[Dannybwoy]

On the 3rd of September 1925, Tom Pierrepoint carried out a double hanging at Armley and on the following day a further single execution. The first two prisoners were Alfred Bostock who had killed his mistress, Elizabeth Sherratt and 23 year old William Fowler, who was a Sheffield gangster who had taken part in the murder of an ex boxer called William Plommer in a street ambush. Fowler's brother and leader of their gang, Lawrence, was to die the following day for the same crime.

Alfred Bostock and Elizabeth Sherratt both worked for the Parkgate Ironworks in Rotherham and had fallen for each other virtually on sight. Albert was married but had a passionate affair with Elizabeth which went along very well until Elizabeth announced that she was pregnant, a setback that Alfred could simply not accept. On May 3rd, 1925, her body was found floating in the river at Rawmarsh - she had been battered to death. Bostock was the prime suspect and quickly arrested for the murder. He presented a weak alibi in his defence and although the evidence against him was circumstantial, it only took the jury 15 minutes to convict him. It is unclear why he was hanged alongside William Fowler and not alone. One surmises that the prison authorities thought there would be trouble between the Fowler brothers so had decided to hang them separately. Lawrence and William Fowler were leaders of a Sheffield gang that had been terrorising the city for some time and who considered themselves beyond the law. One of the gang's members, Trimmer Welsh, had got into a fight with William Plommer over his treatment of the barmaid in the pub where they were both drinking, and Plommer gave the man a good hiding. Plommer was ambushed by another two members of the gang, including young Wilfred Fowler, but they were no match for this powerfully built and courageous ex fighter either. Two defeats for the gang were more than its pride and arrogance could stomach so a mob of a dozen or so went to Plommer's house and when he came out to face them, they beat, stabbed and kicked him to death. They were soon rounded up, some getting prison sentences and Lawrence and William, being convicted of murder, sentenced to hang. Their executions brought to an end the gang terror in Sheffield in the 1920's.

 

 

After reading J P Beans book, it doesnt paint the picture that the Fowlers were the 'leaders' of the Park Brigade, as it was called. They were just 'hangers on' so to speak.

 

Sam garvin was the one dishing out the orders according to the book.