Stafford's School Fighting Championship

[simon]

Having started my high school years at Rising Brook in 1991, I seem to remember regular fights with other schools, this faded out as the years went by, but I'll never forget the adrenalin of being an 11 year old running the streets to a planned fight at Rowley Park only to get ambushed at Rising Brook shops!!

So what is everyone else's view on this? Who was the most feared school and how long does this 'tradition' date back? And how were these fights organised pre mobile phone!

 

[tekkers]

riso have the reputation

 

[tek-monkey]

I remember hearing one lunchtime a group of lads from Balfour were coming up to our school (weston) to start a fight. Come lunchtime just about everyone at school was outside looking for them, only half a dozen turned up and they buggered off straight away.

Think we were too out of the way to be hassled TBH.

 

[rich upsetter]

i went to Blesso's, when i was in the first and second year there was full scale war between us and king eddies. i remember seeing 5th year lads walking up towards eddies proper tooled up. it had petered out by the time i got to 5th year.

 

[Augustus Gloop]

There was plenty of internal rucks at Walton with the odd appearance from Blessed Bills. It was pretty rare in those days. Although I understand the one incident I remember had more to do with a Walton lad beating the sh*t out of four Blesso lads over a girl.

He was, at the time, dating a bird in my year but was a few years older. Really nice lad but you wouldn't mess. Upsetter probably knows him in fact I'm almost sure he does.

Got legged by a load of Rising lads once due to a misunderstanding. I'm not one for running when there's a possibility of fisticuffs but I didn't fancy arguing with a plank of wood and a snooker cue.

Exciting times.

By the time I was in the sixth form I rarely saw any school fights. I spent most of my time out of school hours in Bednall experimenting with chemicals. Ahem.

 

[db]

i don't remember anything like this

And how were these fights organised pre mobile phone!

you're less than a year younger than me, surely you remember life before mobile phones?? they didn't really hit the mainstream until around 1997, innit? i defo don't remember anyone having a mobile while i was at school..

 

[Andreas Rex]

they didn't really hit the mainstream until around 1997, innit? i defo don't remember anyone having a mobile while i was at school..

1997 - BBC becomes the first of our peer group to purchase a mobile. "What's the point of that?" came the cries (me included), "Nobody else has one, so what will you do with it?". Well, that soon changed.

As for the fights, i'm pretty much the same as DB....nothing organised as far as I can remember, except people from our school fighting each other!

 

[db]

By the time I was in the sixth form I rarely saw any school fights. I spent most of my time out of school hours in Bednall experimenting with chemicals. Ahem.

yeah, i had a wicked chemistry set too.. came with a book of experiments and an audio tape narrated by Johnny Ball.. great days..

oh, wait..

 

[TENSHON]

i remember half a dozen lads from blessed bills getting expelled for organising a mass brawl with either riso or king eddies (always one or the other). they were going around with a recruitment form taking down names, all very well co-ordinated. when i signed up they asked if i needed a weapon, opened a big sports bag, and offered me a choice from knifes, hammers, lead pipes etc... i said i'd take my own. (obviously, i never turned up for battle).

 

[db]

they asked if i needed a weapon, opened a big sports bag, and offered me a choice from knifes, hammers, lead pipes etc..

jesus christ

and this is in the days long before GTA and stuff.. crikey!

 

[tek-monkey]

When I was 10 I got smacked in the face by a metal bar by an 11 year old, because I dared to be seen up Kingston Hill with a black kid. Couldn't see out of one eye for 2 days due to swelling, happy days!

 

[MISS T]

When I was at Eddies in my final year, the last week of term I spent painting the mural in the park on Westway, Highfields. Word went round that Riso kids were heading down at lunchtime to wreck it, we armed ourselves with paint and brushes, even the art teacher was tooled up, but they never came.

 

[simon]

you're less than a year younger than me, surely you remember life before mobile phones?? they didn't really hit the mainstream until around 1997, innit? i defo don't remember anyone having a mobile while i was at school..

Yeah ok, so I kind of get the pre mobile phone thing, I had a good 4 or 5 years of 'socialising' without a mobile phone and managed to meet up with me mates in town, even when I didn't know where they were going.......come to think of it maybe they were trying to tell me something!

 

[Jheych]

When I was 10 I got smacked in the face by a metal bar by an 11 year old, because I dared to be seen up Kingston Hill with a black kid. Couldn't see out of one eye for 2 days due to swelling, happy days!

Respect due to you sir for having the cojones ! big ones at that ( this of course could sound totally uncomplimentary if your female ) !

Even more respect if this was during the so called rise of those stupid NF tossers all those years ago ..weird feckin times then .I experienced similar for being drunk and having a go at a small "crew" of these types in wakefield ( where I had never been before and wasn't exactly sure how to get back to !! . Thing was it had a great market and there was this particularly fine pair of electric blue bondage trousers with leapordskin bumflap I was after . Maybe wrong place at the wrong time. The experience did however tell me a lot about myself at that time .

 

[Jheych]

OOPS!

sorry peeps ..went off thread
apologies

 

[Sir BoD]

I was a part of the Eddys v Blessos era of about '85 to '88. Many a time, news would filter down to us Eddys lot that after school Blessos wanted a ruck. Many a time, we would go down after school for this ruck. And many a time, we would leave Eddys with 50+ people on the march to Blessos for this ruck. And, many a time we would get to Blesso with about 6 or 7 of the oroignal 50, and no Blessos kids in sight....For a ruck.

The strangest thing was, we were friends with a lot of these Blessos kids anyway. They were some of our mates whom we'd meet at the bus shelter in the Market Square on Saturdays and go crumpet hunting around town, invariably doing hundreds of circuits of the high street and side streets in the process. They were our mates whom we'd meet at Riverside on a Sunday and go swimming with, and/ or watch the fit birds roller skating on the 5 'a' side pitch.

And yet somehow, we wanted to batter them, and them us. Funny old world, ain't it?

 

[cookie_monster]

they didn't really hit the mainstream until around 1997, innit? i defo don't remember anyone having a mobile while i was at school..

1997 - BBC becomes the first of our peer group to purchase a mobile. "What's the point of that?" came the cries (me included), "Nobody else has one, so what will you do with it?". Well, that soon changed.

As for the fights, i'm pretty much the same as DB....nothing organised as far as I can remember, except people from our school fighting each other!

i remember lil'lou having one when we in the 6th form (95-97), but i think that was coz she lived out in the styx and was already driving loads etc...i think her mum just wanted to keep an eye on her and make sure she could contact people if she had an accident or summat.

as for the fights, i think they were more the people in the years above us, maybe 2 or 3 years. as far as i remember, i used to know loads of people from other schools and never had any bother with any of them, riso, blessos, balfour, and weston. apart from erica dee, but she rubbed everybody up the wrong way.


x

 

[CornishJon]

you guys aint seen nothin, when i was a bey and the Cornish Mafia was at large, there were drive by parsnip attacks in pimped up John Deers! We lost alot of good men out there...

 

[wildwood]

 

[sportacus 9]

Hi all first post so here goes!!
Attended King Eddies from 83-86(which will explain the poor grammar and spelling mistakes!)
Things were out of hand between blesso's and eddies for most of the time i was there.
Whisper would come through that it was going to kick off, word used to spread, at times some serious numbers were involved and some quite severe kickings were given out to both sides!
Remember the whole fourth and fifth year lads getting dragged out classes one afternoon and being spoken to. Apparently there'd been some running battles with Riso kids during the lunch break across highfields(teachers pay dispute had to leave premises at lunchtime??) anyway apparently some young riso lad, who was nothing to do with the pitch battle that was going on, walked out of his house at the wrong moment and a gang of eddies kids chased him back into his house and gave him a good hiding.Obviously this didn't go down to well and even made the papers.
Another incident that spring to mind (not many people know about this because i was scared witless for ages that there might be reprisals)
was when iwas going home for lunch during one of these strikes and was cycling along the Newport Rd when i saw a gang of Blesso's kids crossing the road towards the rugby pitch.
As I'd spotted them, i stopped and not wishing to run the gauntlet as i was on my own,i waited on the turning up to the golf course on the edge of the rugby pitch.
Next i saw there were three lads from my year walking across the middle of the pitch and hadn't spotted the gang running towards them, blows were exchanged, they were severely out numbered and then a lump of wood was produced and one of our lads that was down was beaten to a pulp with it(and although i didn't know till later) was knocked unconscious and ended up in hospital.
I turned round and raced back to school, absolutely shitting myself,found a couple of mates and relayed what id seen.
Before long the story had spread like wild fire and the whole school were going on mass to do Blesso's after school.
Fortunately the police had become involved due to the serious of the incident and were present for the rest of the afternoon,in and around both schools.
This is where this little tale takes a turn for the worst some bright spark told someone I'd seen what had happened and was then interviewed by the police.Was asked all the usual stuff along with would you recognise any of these lads again to which i naively answered yes.
The next day i was taken during lesson time into Blessos and hidden in a lab of some sort upstairs that over looked a playground at the rear of the school.
Then during morning break i had to point out to an officer and the headmaster anyone i recognised from the previous days events. To be fair it wasnt difficult and the head just kept saying typical etc as i pointed each of the lads out.
To be honest i never heard anymore about it but i was scared to death for ages in case i was found out as a grass.
So if you were one of the lads that got pulled in now you know why sorry!!!