Article: Remember When: BADLANDS! Back in the late 1950s and early 1960s a gang culture existed in Britain which seemed to mirror image films such as The Wild One and West Side Story. In 1958 our reporters visited Whitley Bay to talk to young 'hoodlums' described as 'the toughest of the toughs'.(News)

Byline: RAY MARSHALL

WHITLEY Bay strikes me as being a nice quiet place, although very busy on a weekend.

It doesn't seem any worse than other North East town but, apparently, that was not always the case.

Going through our archives I came across an interesting Whitley Bay story from 1958.

Interesting because the headline screamed that Whitley Bay hoodlums were set to take part in a gang ...

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