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Fact #104163

When:

01081964

Short story:

The UK's two main youth factions, the Mods and the Rockers, riot in the seaside town of Hastings, East Sussex.

Full article:

Terence Spencer (photographer) : It was pretty horrible in those riots. The funny thing is that when the mods beat up the rockers, they used to have about ten mods to every two rockers