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The Gorbals Vampire

PostPosted: Wed Sep 21, 2016 3:58 pm
by Sharon
Just listened to this nice piece on the iplayer http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rmt00

In September 1954 hundreds of Glasgow schoolchildren crowded into a Gorbals graveyard to hunt for a Vampire with Iron Teeth. Novelist Louise Welsh discovers how the "Gorbals Vampire" led to a change in Britain's censorship laws.


Got a mention back in the olden days here viewtopic.php?f=23&t=8391

Which also links to this article http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8574484.stm

When Pc Alex Deeprose was called to Glasgow's sprawling Southern Necropolis on the evening of 23 September 1954, he expected to be dealing with a simple case of vandalism.

But the bizarre sight that awaited him was to make headlines around the world and cause a moral panic that led to the introduction of strict new censorship laws in the UK.
Hundreds of children aged from four to 14, some of them armed with knives and sharpened sticks, were patrolling inside the historic graveyard.