St Pauls, Bristol dealing. A customer had his trousers ripped and demanded compensation, which the police refused. A crowd outside then refused to allow the police to leave, and when back up was called a riot started. The riots were quickly blamed on race, but both white and black youths from both Irish and Jamaican backgrounds and some English fought against the police and the problems are thought to have been linked instead to poverty and perceived social injustices, predominantly the Sus law and anti Irish feelings from IRA activity on the main land. In 1990 a Bristol and St Pauls black politician
The Tanks That Broke the Ranks Out in Picardy The Tanks That Broke the Ranks Out in Picardy The Tanks That Broke the Ranks Out in Picardy (also known by the shorter title of The Tanks That Broke the Ranks) is a 1916 song written jointly by Harry Castling and Harry Carlton. The song was composed as a promotional song for the-then new Tank, which had been first used during the First World War, and were regarded with interest and awe by both sides when they were first deployed. It is written to the jaunty tune of a music hall hit of a few years earlier "The man who