Fact #78832
When:
Short story:
Seventy-six arrests are made when gangs of mods and rockers - Britain's two major youth factions - clash in two seaside towns, Margate and Brighton, in the UK.
Full article:
Howard Baker (mod) : There was a stand-off on the seafront when we stood on one side of the road and the rockers on the other. We were always in the majority.
From the east there was a strange humming noise which got louder and louder and no-one knew what it was.
Suddenly, hundreds and hundreds of scooters came out of nowhere.
(Source : interview in The Brighton Argus, unknown date)
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From the east there was a strange humming noise which got louder and louder and no-one knew what it was.
Suddenly, hundreds and hundreds of scooters came out of nowhere.
(Source : interview in The Brighton Argus, unknown date)