By Noel 'Razor' Smith
It used to be the lengthy scorching summer time of 1976, and a 15-year-old Noel Smith, testosterone jangling, was once between many south London children prepared to stamp their mark at the global and locate an identification and a feeling of belonging. Rock ’n’ roll track of the ’50s had gripped his mind's eye and, adopting the costume, coiffure and dance strikes, a Teddy boy was once born. lots of his friends go well with and shortly the Balham Wildkatz have been born - mob-handed, smug and spoiling for a ruck at each chance. existence used to be all approximately flying your colours, cultivating either a private and gang acceptance, claiming new turf and retaining your personal patch opposed to the enemy: the opposite youngster subcultures established round the song scene - mods, rockers, soul boys, punks, skinheads, smoothies, rockabillies - that shaped a unstable melting pot of minor angst ready to blow up. Clubbing, ingesting, thieving and struggling with turned the norm and a wave of more and more reckless and violent habit ensued, ensuing eventually in internecine conflict. ‘Razor’ Smith, as a veteran of that scene and previous gang chief of the Wildkatz, seems to be again with honesty, humor and vibrant readability at the days of his formative years.
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The overall commander was Sir Hugh Tyrril who seems to have led a sortie against the besieging army, ambushing them in a narrow lane, now called Deadman’s and burying the dead under a tumulus called, mockingly, Noddies Hill (today, Nodehill is a part of Newport). The French must now have faced a dilemma. If de Heynoe had killed their commander, the next most senior nobleman had to weigh up the pros and cons. Carisbrooke could hold out for months with its double well and its provisions and October’s weather would make a siege that dragged on into winter uncomfortable under canvas.
Either way, Breton was in the clear and had to be released. Rather as today when courts sometimes hand out ludicrously light sentences, the notorious Poole-based pirate Henry (Arry) Paye got off lightly in November 1403 when he merely had to make restitution to a Spanish ship he attacked off the Island the previous month. He had personally killed a crewman and set the owner, John de Garostica, adrift in an open boat in the Channel! The Island was also a useful hiding place for sea-robbers who struck elsewhere.
The records do not tell us why, but Bole attacked Compton with a quarter-staff. In defence, Compton stabbed him with his sword. The inquest was held at Southtowne (part of Freshwater) and Bole’s worldly goods were assessed at 8 shillings; his sword was worth 6d. Of the eighteen murder cases that took place between 1377 and 1392, all of them were committed by men and almost all involved knives. Today we are obsessed with knife crime as though it is something new, pernicious and symptomatic of the twenty-first-century breakdown of society.